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Sand buries river, residents suspect I-4 construction

“It’s really a travesty,” said Deborah Shelley, who was the manager of the state’s Wekiva River Aquatic Preserve from 1987 to 2017. She noted that pollution from sewage and fertilizer holds the river system’s health under chronic distress. But the mass of eroding soil gorging and displacing the Little Wekiva is unsurpassed in her memory as a single act of harm.
“It is one of the most devastating events that has happened to the Wekiva over the years,” Shelley said.
The Wekiva River is one of two rivers in Florida with a federal Wild and Scenic designation. The Wekiva system, including springs, tributaries, wetlands and forest, and crowded by metro Orlando and suburban Lake County, has been one Florida’s most costly and challenging environmental treasures to protect. ....

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Sand buries Little Wekiva River, residents suspect I-4 construction

Sand buries Little Wekiva River, residents suspect I-4 construction
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Sand buries river, residents suspect I-4 construction

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Portions of the Little Wekiva River are dry, buried in silt and debris

Portions of the Little Wekiva River are dry, buried in silt and debris
Little Wekiva River drying up?
Environmentalists and others in Seminole County are wondering why the Little Wekiva River is losing water and turning into sand piles.
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - Jeanette Schreiber stands in the middle of the Little Wekiva River where it runs along her property line, yet there’s not a drop of water on her.
This area right here was all sometimes like 5 feet deep, anywhere from 3.5 to 5 feet deep, Schreiber said.
There should be spring water flowing along the back of her property, but right now it’s bone dry. ....

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Massive invasion of sand burying Little Wekiva River leads residents to suspect I-4 construction

The Little Wekiva River is being buried with as much as 5 feet of sand and residents of the treasured Little Wekiva in Seminole County blame Interstate 4 construction for erosion gorging the river. ....

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