Six months after the in-person meetings last October, FDEP is holding more BMAP meetings, this time as webinars. Silver and Rainbow Springs, BMAP Webinars 2025-04-11, Lower and Middle Suwannee & Santa Fe River 2025-04-10 The Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP) documents can be found here: https://floridadep.gov/dear/water-quality-restoration/content/basin-management-action-plan-documents I have asked the Florida Department of Environmental Protection […]
Update 2025-04-03: BMAP Webinars: Lower and Middle Suwannee and Santa Fe Rivers, Silver and Rainbow Springs 2025-04-10. I got to the Suwannee Basin BMAP meeting late, because I had been at SRWMD HQ talking about water trails. Still, this seemed sparsely attended. Suwannee River Basin BMAP meeting in Live Oak 2024-10-30 Much like Santa Fe […]
There was better communication than last time, but of course that was a low bar. You can follow up after that meeting, and the next ones: here are some ideas. https://wwals.net/?p=66108 The other two BMAP meetings are today (see below). Santa Fe River BMAP Meeting, Lake Butler, FL 2024-10-28 Better communication than last time At […]
Update 2024-11-05: Pictures: Suwannee River Basin BMAP meeting in Live Oak 2024-10-30. Update 2024-10-30: Pictures: Santa Fe River BMAP meeting, Lake Butler, FL 2024-10-28. FDEP has announced rescheduled dates for some BMAP meetings after the hurricanes. https://floridadep.gov/dear/water-quality-restoration/content/bmap-public-meetings Please go and say why you think the Basin Management Action Plans (BMAPs) are broken. But don’t stop […]
Update 2024-05-25: The Santa Fe River BMAP session was no more informative. If my car has an oil leak and I take it to the dealer, I want to know has it stopped leaking, or at least when will it be fixed so it doesn’t leak, and how far along is it to being fixed. […]
Update 2024-05-24: What progress has been made towards springs nitrogen loading reduction by the Suwannee River BMAP? 2024-05-24. SRWMD is holding two meetings about springs protection on Friday, May 24, 2024, at 10AM for the Suwannee River Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP), and at 1:30 PM for its Santa Fe River BMAP. SRWMD BMAP meetings, […]
I plan to attend, and I suggest others do, as well. Here’s a monitoring gap: if Valdosta, Georgia, can test water quality three times a week on forty river miles to the GA-FL line, the great state of Florida can do the rest all the way to the Gulf. And here’s a modeling gap: where’s […]
The deputy went in to see what the ruckus was about. It was Lu Merritt, Mike Roth, Jim Tatum, Mike Kern, and then me, in extensive discussion about a water withdrawal permit request, that Jim Tatum called Words of Truth to the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) Board. On the agenda for that Monday, […]
Someone inside FDEP has been brave enough for years to say the emperor has no clothes regarding contamination in the Suwannee River Basin. Photo: John S. Quarterman for WWALS, of Thomas Greenhalgh suiting up at the Alapaha Dye Test, 2016-06-22. Dinah Voyles Pulver, The Daytona-Beach News-Journal, 24 November 2018, State geologist challenging springs action plan […]
Unlike FDEP’s BMAP plans, “When a new building code is final in Florida, [Rusty] Payton [CEO, Florida Home Builders Association] said, “there’s always six months between the final rule and the date the rule takes effect.” Because of his organization’s petition for more time to file a protest, none of Florida’s new Basin Management Action […]
