WFNF

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Water First North Florida (#WFNF) is a plan to pipe treated wastewater from Jacksonville into the Suwannee Basin.

Ask local, state, and national elected and appointed officials and Water Management Districts (Suwannee and St. Johns) to explain it or stop it.
https://wwals.net/?p=69143

https://pluralpolicy.com/find-your-legislator/

Petition: https://c.org/8CgGBpLv7r

[Why is piping treated JAX wastewater into the Suwannee River Basin, better than limiting water withdrawals? Ask FL statehouse and WMD boards]

Also ask SRWMD to hold a Public Hearing explaining why this project is better and safer than limiting water withdrawals. Let’s see the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Including evidence about how much JEA’s Buckman Wastewater Treatment Facility actually removes PFAS forever chemicals, drugs, and artificial sweeteners. Plus single points of failure such as sole-source contractors.

Suwannee River Management District
9225 CR 49, Live Oak, FL 32060
Phone: 386.362.1001; Toll Free: 1.800.226.1066
Hugh Thomas, Executive Director, Hugh.Thomas@SRWMD.org
Also ask your SRWMD Board members:
https://mysuwanneeriver.com/134/Current-Board-Members

Why Not WFNF

The Suwannee River Basin is already downstream from Valdosta wastewater. It doesn’t also need to be downstream from Jacksonville. Sure, we’re poorer than Jacksonville, but we’re not their sacrifice zone.

Two Water Management Districts say this billion-dollar Water First North Florida project would replenish levels and flows in the Lower Santa Fe and Ichetucknee Rivers, including the Ichetucknee Headspring, by sending water into the Upper Floridan Aquifer through wetlands. How can this expensive and risky project be the best way to conserve levels and flows in these Outstanding Florida Waters, which are supposed to be worthy of special protection because of their natural attributes? How can risking the source of our drinking water be a good idea?

Surely for a billion dollars Jacksonville, which withdraws more groundwater than any other entity in the area, could do seawater desalination.

More below:

Upcoming meetings about WFNF

Go to a meeting, take pictures and videos, and post them with hashtag #WFNF so people will know.

Regional entities against WFNF

Local governments against WFNF

Background

On wwals.net, use the search box for WFNF to find the latest.

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
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