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Florida Environmental Authorities bring focus on Utility Discharge to Sinkholes and the Aquifer.
AG Bill McCollum names Water one of his key areas of concern for the State of Florida. Florida's Springs are showing the problems with under ground storage of Sewage Effluent.
Ocala's Rev. Alan Jackson sounds alarm. Code words that name utility discharge as "Beneficial" are coming under the spotlight. Who are they benefiting, asks Activist Rev. Alan Jackson.
Drinking Water Risks Addressed by Legislators and EPA. FDEP Secretary Mike Sole is given authority to Set Standards for Florida's Drinking Water. Attorney General Bill McCollum recently traveled to Marion County to address critical issues facing Florida. Water and Jobs were on the top of the list.
Sustainable Development forces under Agenda 21, are developing a strong hold in Florida. In a recent turn to the left, the Florida Legislature passed an expansion of liberal environmental laws that will double the size of FDEC and other Sustainable Growth NGO's in Florida. In his recent shift further to the left, Governor Crist is likely to sign the new pro utility legislation into law. Senate Bill 550 is as bad a legislation effort as has come out of the Florida Legislature in Decades.
Septic tanks have never been the problem, now Utilities will be able to continue discharging into the aquifer with blame going to homes and septic tanks for the harm of millions of gallons daily of effluent going into the Aquifer.
Utilities have for years been able to discharge what ever washes off city streets directly into our drinking water aquifer, however under recent Springs Protection review by FDEP, Cities are going to be required to stop sending storm sewer waste into sink holes and Aquifer Drain Pipes. Scientist have said for years that the Drinking Water Aquifers are so vast that the pollution is diluted to levels harmless to humans. Now FDEP is finding Springs that suffer under pollution loads less than 1% of what is discharged a short distance up stream.
Examples are Gainesville's Kanapaha Sewer Plant that discharges 6 million gallons of processed sewer effluent daily, to blend with clean aquifer waters. Just to the south, 50 million gallons of the pollutant are discharged daily, adding to problems in Wekiva Springs.
1% of the concentration discharged by Wekiva Area Sewer Plants is causing a serious problem for Wekiva Springs.
Utilities and Pharmaceutical Lobbying organizations join to oppose efforts to restrict discharge to aquifers. Legislation is opposed by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures of America, a Washington based organization representing pharmaceutical and biotech firms.
There is no protection from the discharge of minute concentrations of pharmaceuticals in Florida's Drinking Water Aquifers. Scientists have long known of the common presence of human hormones and pharmaceuticals in drinking water, either through human excretion flushed into sewers of from left over medicine put down the drain.
Authorities in Ocala were recently questioned about the practice of draining Storm Sewer Runoff into the Drinking Water Aquifer. It will cost utility customers millions of dollars to then filter the pollution out of the Drinking Water sucked from the Aquifer. Mother Nature provides clean, clear water in abundance yet we insist on mixing our Storm Sewer Runoff with the crystal clean water.
Springs Protection has been a failure. Actually, citizens get the impression that Marion Springs Protection regulations will protect the Drinking Water Aquifer and Silver Springs, however the large drainage pipes, 28 by the City of Ocala alone are exempt from the laws.
The City and the County Storm Sewer Authorities
continue to find new ways to mix Storm Sewer runoff with the Drinking Water Aquifer. The 17th street overpass project
dumps directly into the Drinking Water Aquifer as does the County Sink hole along State Road 475. Cheap on the front
end, mixing funky stuff with clean drinking water is very costly to utility customers later on.
Fix Storm Water . Com is a great start for clean drinking water.
The Drinking Water Aquifer is known as the Floridan, or Surficial Aquifer to Scientist.
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| Floridan Aquifer is the historic dumping ground for Storm Sewer Runoff. |
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