Category Archives: BMAP

Suwannee Riverkeeper on Welcome to Florida podcast by Craig Pittman 2025-04-08

Thanks to Craig Pittman for inviting me on his Welcome to Florida podcast, Episode 250: The Suwanee River.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1169570/episodes/16921299

The Suwannee part starts 6:15.

He spells it Suwanee with one n.

Stephen C. Foster spelled it Swanee.

We talked about the Suwannee, Santa Fe, Alapaha, Withlacoochee, New, New, Little, and Little Rivers. About sewage and cow manure, fertlizer nitrates leaching into springs and rivers causing algae blooms, the Hamilton County phosphate mine, and Titanium dioxide mines in north Florida at the top of the Santa Fe River Basin and in south Georgia too near the Okefenokee Swamp. About leaping Gulf sturgeon, Alligator snapping turtles, and beavers.

And musicians, don’t forget to send in your song to the Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest, part of WWALS River Revue, September 6, 2025, at the Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, Georgia.
https://wwals.net/?p=67322

[Suwannee Riverkeeper on Welcome to Florida podcast, by Craig Pittman, April 8, 2025]
Suwannee Riverkeeper on Welcome to Florida podcast, by Craig Pittman, April 8, 2025

Best selling author, award winning reporter and Florida native Craig Pittman is joined by radio personality and Florida transplant Chadd Scott to discuss the state’s history, people, politics, environment, animals, current events and weirdness. You’ll hear great storytelling and have great fun in each weekly episode.

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BMAP Webinars: Lower and Middle Suwannee and Santa Fe Rivers, Silver and Rainbow Springs 2025-04-10

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]
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 (FDEP) for the agendas for these meetings.

Lower and Middle Suwannee River Basin BMAP Meeting
April 10, 2025
10 a.m. EDT
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8387583116283965525

Santa Fe River Basin BMAP Meeting
April 10, 2025
2 p.m EDT
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2633110891434594903

Silver Springs and Rainbow Springs BMAP Meeting
April 11, 2025
10 a.m. EDT
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6935859431224387930

From the Summary of the Lower and Middle Suwannee River BMAP, page 9: Continue reading