The SRWMD board will decide next Tuesday on a land acquisition and a conservation easement amendment on two different parcels on the Suwannee River. Plus SRWMD legal counsel was prodded by citizen petitions into filing a notice of appeal of SRWMD’s own Nestlé decision to approve that permit, and the Board now has to agree […]
A textbook case: “We present our three-minute, passionate oration about the risk to community health, but in the end, nothing we say must be taken into account by the state in issuing the permit.” Common Sense: Community Rights Organizing, by CELDF; thanks to Karma Norjin Lhamo for the reminder. Mermaid, Suwannee Riverkeeper, OSFR, Regulatory Fallacy, […]
You can help the Suwannee River Water Management District Board uphold the public interest and reject Nestlé’s water withdrawal permit application. Agenda, Board, No Permit Even SRWMD’s legal counsel only recommends approving the Seven Springs permit “under protest.” The DOAH judge’s Order is actually only a RECOMMENDATION, and the District filed eighteen pages of exceptions […]
The Suwannee River Water Management District has moved its Special Meeting, to decide the Nestlé permit for Ginnie Springs on the Santa Fe River, back to Live Oak, with online participation, February 23, 2021, plus possible continuation the next day. No Nestle permit, 2021-02-23 or any other date That didn’t take long, due to complaints […]
Update 2021-02-09: Back to Live Oak and online: SRWMD Nestle Special Meeting 2021-02-23. This time the judge recommended accepting the permit, as the Nestlé case bounced back to SRWMD from DOAH for a second time. So the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) has scheduled a special meeting at 9AM on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, […]
Update 2021-02-09: Back to Live Oak and online: SRWMD Nestle Special Meeting 2021-02-23. Update 2021-02-04: Special SRWMD Board Meeting February 23, 2021, in Fanning Springs. You can address your own postcard to SRWMD: SRWMD Board Members 9225 CR 49 LIVE OAK, FL 32060 NO Nestlé PERMIT Just “NO PERMIT” is enough, but No permit for […]
On a motion (by Don Quincey) seconded (I think by Virginia Sanchez), with only one dissenting vote (Richard Schwab), the SRWMD board voted to table the Seven Springs permit application for six months, because they want Nestlé to be a co-applicant. They do not want the permit to go back to DOAH; they want it […]
Suwannee Riverkeeper wrote to SRWMD this morning about the proposed water withdrawal permit for Nestlé near Ginnie Springs on the Santa Fe River, “This permit would be taxation without representation of river, spring, and aquifer water. “The SRWMD board should refuse to hear any water withdrawal permit requests in the Santa Fe River Basin, or […]
You must register for the webinar and separately register to speak at the SRWMD board meeting 9AM tomorrow morning. And for sound you must call a telephone conferencing number. It’s worth all that to oppose Nestlé’s permit request for more water from the Floridan Aquifer at Ginnie Springs next to the Santa Fe River. When […]
Update 2020-08-10: Register to comment: Nestle water withdrawal on SRWMD agenda; staff in favor 2020-08-11 Nestlé water withdrawal from Ginnie Springs next to the Santa Fe River is back on the SRWMD agenda for Tuesday morning, with staff in favor this time. Please speak up now! Seven Springs Water Company Project, 2-041-218202-3, August 2020 PDF […]
