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If we are truly committed to resiliency and a healthy St. Johns River, then we must have a complete picture of the risks and the political will to act, Lisa Rinaman writes.
“We have a poop problem,” said Rinaman, the St. Johns Riverkeeper. “And it’s a brewing crisis.”
You might say Florida is full of it.
And we’re not just talking about the politicians in Tallahassee, although they certainly are a part of the problem.
More than 50 years after this state managed to send a man to the moon, here on earth we’re struggling to figure out how to create a functioning website and dispose of human waste.
Along the St. Johns, we re the losers in the sludge game
State leaders keep trying to address the latter issue by playing a game of sewage whack-a-mole. And those of us living in this part of the state, along a 310-mile river that flows north, are the consistent losers in that game.
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Inspecting a boat ramp at the Ocklawaha River’s Rodman Reservoir are Jennifer Carr, president of the Florida Defenders of the Environment, and her daughter, Carmen, and the group’s executive director Jim Gross. Rodman Reservoir is plagued by a chronic growth of muck and floating weeds, as seen here at the boat ramp. Weeds have engulfed the ramp and dock.
A legacy of the hasty construction of the dam and reservoir in the 1960s is that it left many trees in the reservoir s boundary.
Part 3 of Special Series
Cannon Springs has spent a half-century entombed by a government blunder of a dam and reservoir on the Ocklawaha River. Every several years, authorities must dump the artificial lake to flush out a nonstop growth of muck and weeds.