The SRWMD Board agenda for tomorrow, Tuesday, September 9, 2025, is here:
https://www.mysuwanneeriver.com/Archive.aspx?ADID=1706
I sent this letter Monday evening.
Please remove Nutrien WUP from Consent Agenda and hold a Public Hearing –WWALS to SRWMD 2025-09-08
September 8, 2025
To: Virginia H. Johns
Board Chair
virginia.johns@srwmd.org
Suwannee River Water Management DistrictCc: Hugh Thomas
Executive DIrector
Hugh.Thomas@srwmd.orgDear SRWMD,
Staff seem unaware of a recent fish kill on Swift Creek, one of the “offsite discharge locations” cited in the Memorandum on the proposed five-year extension of the Nutrien Water Use Permit 2-047-219878. A fish kill is not a natural system “healthy and functioning well.”
That alone should be enough reason to remove that item from the Consent Agenda and to schedule a public hearing on that WUP.
Specifically, on your agenda for Tuesday morning, in this item, Continue reading