Nestle Waters will no longer be the villain in an ongoing debate about drawing more water from the aquifer in Ginnie Springs for bottling.
One Rock Capital Partners and Metropoulos & Co. have bought the water bottling operation from Nestle including the Ginnie Springs plant.
The new corporate name is BlueTriton Brands.
Meanwhile, Eighth Circuit Judge Robert Groeb ruled Tuesday that a lawsuit related to the plant should be transferred to Suwannee County from Gilchrist County, where it was filed.
Sachs Media in Tallahassee, which represented Nestle Waters, contacted BlueTriton after a query from The Sun. The company directed Sachs and The Sun to press releases.
Legal Fight to Restore Florida s Ocklawaha River Now at Federal Appeals Court
Appellate court asked to reverse lower court ruling, allow lawsuit seeking removal of Rodman Dam to proceed
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OCALA, Fla., April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Florida Defenders of the Environment (FDE) and supporters of restoring the Ocklawaha River are asking a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court ruling and force the U.S. Forest Service to move forward with its longstanding commitment to remove the Rodman Dam.
The original lawsuit filed by the Florida Defenders of the Environment and plaintiffs Joseph Little and Bruce Kaster charges that the state has operated the controversial Rodman Dam on U.S. Forest Service property without a required permit for nearly 20 years.
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The aging Rodman Dam on Central Florida’s Ocklawaha River is riddled with hazardous vulnerabilities, which the state and federal authorities have kept secret for years, says a lawyer who has long waged a battle to get the federal government to demolish the dam and restore the river. The lawyer, Bruce Kaster of Ocala, focuses on product liability litigation but has taken on Ocklawaha restoration as a personal mission. He uncovered evidence of dam hazards through requests for public records and then turned to a dam expert for analysis.
Ocklawaha River s Rodman Dam a High Hazard Structure at Risk of Catastrophic Breach
Engineering study recommends removal of controversial dam or major tax expenditures to correct structural safety deficiencies
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OCALA, Fla., March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Rodman Dam on the Ocklawaha River should be reclassified as a high hazard structure based on a new independent civil engineering analysis of previously undisclosed government inspection reports.
The report released by the Florida Defenders of the Environment shows that the state Department of Environmental Protection has ignored a long list of structural weaknesses documented at the dam for more than five years, raising the risk of a dam breach that would threaten downstream communities, including hundreds of homes and other buildings valued at nearly $60 million.