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Tag Archives: Suwannee River Water Management District
Lake City Sabal Trail pipe yard in cleared wetlands
Update 2016-08-10: Videos of all the speakers.
You are invited to come ask SRWMD why it hasn’t
responded to WWALS’ request about the unregistered
Sabal Trail Lake City apparently on fill in wetlands.
You can speak in person Tuesday morning,
or write them a letter saying how Sabal Trail would affect you,
no matter where you are elsewhere on the pipeline path, in the Floridan Aquifer,
or for other reasons.
When: 9AM Tuesday August 9th 2016
Where: SRWMD District Headquarters,
9225 CR 49, Live Oak, FL 32060
Or write to: Noah Valenstein, Executive Director, SRWMD, NDV@srwmd.org.
Update 2016-08-07: You may also send a letter to all Board members of the SRWMD by writing to their
senior Board assistant:
Lisa Cheshire,
LMC@srwmd.org
Robin Lamm, Coordinator, rrl@srwmd.org
In the subject header to Lisa include the following info:
SRWMD Board Members:
Then cc here, too:
Noah Valenstein, NDV@srwmd.org
Sabal Trail is not on the agenda, but people can speak in Continue reading
Management update public hearing, Suwannee River State Park 2016-07-26
Received today from FDEP:
Recreation and Parks Public Hearing
CONTACT: DEP Press Office, 850.245.2112, DEPNews@dep.state.fl.us
DEP’s Florida Park Service is in the process of updating the Unit Management Plan for Suwannee River State Park. Citizens are invited to attend a public hearing to learn more about the proposed plans for the state park and to provide their comments.
Please review the public notice, agenda and draft plan. Copies may also be obtained by emailing Craig.Liney@dep.state.fl.us or calling 386-362-2746. The public is invited to review and submit comments to the Division of Recreation and Parks at FL_StateParkPlanning@dep.state.fl.us until Aug. 10, 2016.
WHAT: Public Hearing
WHEN: July 26, 2016
5-8 p.m.WHERE: Suwannee River Water Management District Complex
9225 County Road 49
Live Oak, FL 32060Continue reading
SRWMD listens about Sabal Trail easements, chooses unfortunately, yet offers assistance 2016-07-12
Attached are my comments to the SRWMD Governing Board today (July 12th 2016) in regards to the Sabal Trail crossing site over the Falmouth Cathedral Cave System.
I was the first to speak at the public comment period followed by Jim Tatum then Merrillee. Jim and Merrillee echoed my concerns. The three of us set the tone for the meeting! The Board was interested and engaged asking questions to better understand what impacts Sabal Trail poses for the cave system and the District. About Time!
Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson of Sierra Club Florida speaking to SRWMD 2016-07-12
Photo credit:
Our Santa Fe River
Executive Director, Noah Valenstein offered to personally call the ACE to request Continue reading
Sabal Trail easements at SRWMD 2016-07-12 and SFWMD 2016-07-14
Tomorrow this morning (Thursday July 14th 2016) Sabal Trail is on the agenda
of the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD)
for permission to use conservation easements
Sierra Club facebook event
for its fracked methane pipeline.
How does this square with Sabal Trail’s assertions that it already has all the permits it needs?
The irony of meeting for this in West Palm Beach, a stone’s throw from
four already-approved LNG export operations at the end of the Sabal Trail pipeline chain in Martin County.
How does profit for a pipeline company from Houston and LNG export to Asia square with the mission of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection?
If you’re in the area, please write, call, or go, before or by 9AM tomorrow morning to oppose these easements and put a kink in Sabal Trail’s pipeline. Continue reading
Unlisted Sabal Trail pipe yard n. of Lake City? WWALS to USACE 2016-07-05
Who other than Sabal Trail needs a yard full of 36-inch pipe?
A pipe yard apparently built on top of jurisdictional wetlands,
so WWALS has informed the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD)
and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
Here is PDF and below is text and images of the letter WWALS sent to the Corps today.
July 5, 2016
Continue reading
Where to look for dye from Alapaha Dye test
Update 2023-05-01: Alapaha Swallets Dye Trace Project 2016-10-01.
Tom Greenhalgh started putting the dye in the Dead River Swallet about 11:06 this morning,
with Harley Means observing in this picture, plus a drone also taking pictures.
See below for where to look for the dye coming back up in the next few days.
If you see it, please take a water sample for SRWMD. Continue reading
Videos: Elected Officials see sinkholes where Sabal Trail would cross Suwannee River State Park 2016-05-15
You can see U.S. Congress member Ted Yoho FL-03 and a staffer for Sen. Bill Nelson
discuss water, air, energy, growth, and past and future generations with local citizens environmental groups, including Suwannee County residents plainly saying they’re in the incineration zone.
You can see for yourself sinkholes Sabal Trail omitted from what it told FERC.
Soon we hope to see letters from Ted Yoho and Bill Nelson to the Corps and to FERC.
Below are links to the WWALS videos of the event, with many notes. For handouts, still pictures, and more information about this event of Sunday morning May 15th 2016, see Continue reading
Sinkholes and Sabal Trail: Elected Officials Hike, Suwannee River State Park 2016-05-15
Sunday morning May 15th 2016, nine and more environmental organizations showed
U.S. Congress member Ted Yoho FL-03 and a representative from Sen. Bill Nelson
saw sinkholes much closer to Sabal Trail’s proposed drill path under the Suwannee River than the pipeline company told FERC, along with two reports by local practicing geologists explaining how fissures and caverns underground extend the problem far past the artificial distance of effects Sabal Trail claimed.
Update 2016-05-17: Thomas Lynn reported in the Suwannee Democrat and Valdosta Daily Times.
Both Rep. Yoho and Suwannee River Water Management District Executive Director Noah Valenstein said at the end of the expedition that Continue reading
Conversations with Noah Valenstein, E.D., SRWMD in Columbia County 2016-02-04
It’s not for shipping water to Jacksonville, it’s not much changed from last year, no money is allocated for it yet, and people should get involved in the process, said Noah Valenstein, the new Executive Director of the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD), in answer to questions from Jim Tatum and Merillee Malwitz-Jipson of Our Santa Fe River (OSFR) and me about the Falling Creek Aquifer Recharge Project at the Columbia County Commission meeting last Thursday, 4 February 2016. Plus Sabal Trail, Amtrak and that chicken farm.
Valenstein answered Jim during the Commission meeting. See also Jim’s report for OSFR. I stayed afterwards and had a longer discussion with Valenstein. Some notes from memory: Continue reading