The 3RT Sand Mine site in Levy County, Florida is in the Rainbow Springs springshed.
Map: 3RT Sand Mine in Rainbow Springshed
–Suwannee Riverkeeper
Neither Levy County nor the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) have adequately dealt with the mine site being in the Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP) for Rainbow Springs, which was issued by SWFWMD and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP). In its Environmental Resource Program (ERP) Permit for the 3RT Sand Mine, SWFWMD actually instructed the applicant not to consider any springshed.
There is a petition against the mine and you can attend relevant Levy County BOCC meetings or call or write them.
- Jury awards 33 times what Sabal Trail offered to Levy Co., FL landowner 2018-11-09
- SWFWMD ERP 43046299.000 for 3RT Sand Mine, Levy County, FL 2023-04-19
- Packet: Levy County Planning Commission, with 3RT Sand Mine Special Exception application 2023-07-10
- Draft Conditions from the Planning Commission to the BoCC on SE 23-01 3RT Sand Mine, Levy County, FL 2023-07-20
- Levy County 3RT Sand Mine is in Springshed of Rainbow Springs 2023-07-23
- Proposed prohibition of mining in certain Levy County zones 2023-08-07
- Levy county sand mine petition 2023-08-11
- Sand Mine Special Exception Levy County Commission 2023-12-05
- Levy County sand mine proposal tabled until February 6 2023-12-05
- SWFWMD and 3RT Sand Mine, Levy County, Rainbow Springs springshed 2024-01-04
- Meeting: Outstanding Florida Springs Basin Management Plans 2024-01-23
- Aerials of Hodge dirt mine, 10 miles from 3RT Sand Mine, Levy County, FL 2024-01-24
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Nick Anschultz, Citrus County Chronicle, February 15, 2024,
County approves special exception for controversial sand mine,
BRONSON — A decision has been made on a proposed 1,100-acre sand mine in Levy County.
In a continuation of its Dec. 5, 2023, quasi-judicial hearing, the Levy County Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved a special exception on Feb. 6 to allow the sand mine on land designated as agriculture/rural residential (A/RR) and rural residential (RR).
- Judge tosses Sand Mine Exception because Levy County Commissioners violated their own rules 2024-09-18.