It would be laughable if it wasn’t so insulting. But don’t take our word for it. It is crazy totally crazy, Robert Knight, executive director of the Florida Springs Institute, told Politico, which first reported the story.
“It’s a ridiculous proposal from an environmental perspective and from a cost perspective,” Ryan Smart, executive director of the Florida Springs Council, told The Sun.
Even members of the water district’s governing board questioned the idea. You just start to wonder when you start to mess around with Mother Nature like this what the unintended consequences are, board member Virginia Sanchez said.
Gainesville s Entertainment Week Ahead June 27-July 3
EVENTS
FANFARES & FIREWORKS: 6 p.m. Saturday, UF Bandshell at Flavet Field. Free. Fireworks at 9:40 p.m. by Skylighters of Florida, will be set to the music of the Gainesville Community Band. Families can picnic on the grass and enjoy musical performances: “Bears and Lions,” a Gainesville group performing music that parents and children will enjoy; acoustic rock from “Jason & Sarah Hedges and Friends,” contemporary retro soul group “The Savants of Soul”; traditional favorites by the Gainesville Community Band under the direction of Gary Langford. WUFT-FM “Morning Edition” host Glenn Richards will serve as emcee.
One of the newer trails in the state park system, the Palatka-to-Lake Butler State Trail consists of 47 planned miles of paved path. Walkers, runners, cyclists, pets and inline skaters are welcome on this trail that will eventually stretch to the town of Palatka (and possibly farther) along the old Norfolk Southern Railroad track.
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