/ The Fellowship of the Springs take viewers into the wonder and beauty of Florida s unique but troubled springs. Florida has the largest and highest concentration of fresh water springs on earth, and the fight to save them is raging.
Many of Florida’s springs are at risk, largely from a combination of reduced water flow and increased pollution.
Thomas Greenhalgh risked his job and career in 2019 when he sued his own employer, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, to challenge the state’s plans to protect Florida’s imperiled springs from increasing pollution.
Greenhalgh, a veteran hydrogeologist and expert on the underground flows that feed North Florida’s springs, argued that the sandy soils and porous rock of the region made them especially vulnerable a position supported by other springs advocates and independent scientists in a long-running lawsuit seeking tougher state restrictions on how surrounding farms and other industries use fertilizer.
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Hoctor & Students Work to Free the Ocklawaha River
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Green groups start drive to remove dam at Rodman Reservoir, opening Ocklawaha River Steve Patterson, Florida Times-Union © Will Dickey/Florida Times-Union Stumps mark the edge of the Ocklawaha River s old channel at Rodman Reservoir in Putnam County. in this photo from a drawdown of water levels in February.
Dozens of environmental groups have launched an online campaign to build support for undamming the Ocklawaha River, a waterway most Floridians have never seen.
The outreach this month by the Free the Ocklawaha River Coalition aims to raise new followers by rebranding the Ocklawaha as “the heart of the Great Florida Riverway,” a marketer s name for a 217-mile system of waterways including the St. Johns River’s lower basin that shape North Florida the way the Everglades define South Florida.