Marion County Commissioners may use proposed Springs Protection Ordinances to stop Counties of Marion and Alachua from polluting the aquifer and Silver/Rainbow Springs. 

 Pollution is found to be coming from sources regulated by  agencies, charged with protecting the environment.  FDEP is found to be the landlord where raw sewage has been dumped into the lagoon at Silver Springs.  It would be so easy for FDEP to do the right thing.

Both Silver and Rainbow Springs could be saved if authorities charged with protecting the environment would obey the current laws.  Algae is growing in both springs because of the dumping up stream by the Kanapaha Sewer Treatment Plant and in Ocala, the Storm Sewer Drainage pipes into the aquifer. 

Wide spread citizen complaints of sink hole use to drain storm sewer and sewer treatment plant effluent into the drinking water aquifer has become overwhelming.  For many years pollution has been grandfathered around the rules as a way to make city and county utilities more profitable.

Please Google Springs Protection to understand the harm that is coming to Marion County's famed Floridan Aquifer, Silver Springs, Rainbow Springs and Rivers, states Environmental artist and writer Don Browning.  Sink hole use is a cheap way to rid a city and county of sewer waste however the resulting boost of profits for County coffers is very short sited.  Ocala Utilities have long enjoyed the "Cash Cow" of their utilities systems under Mr. Bruce Phillips.  Yes, a few profit by cheating and piping storm sewer runoff into the drinking water but in the long run Marion County and the City of Ocala become the laughing stock of the world.

DEP, DOT, Marion County, Ocala, Alachua County, Dunnellon, even the Department of Community Affairs representing Billions in Tax payers dollars are not in the game of protecting Aquifer and Sprigs resources as they could be.  Google Springs Protection to see the problems and solutions proposed by SpringsProtection.Com in support of wide spread public interest in Central Florida.

The Department of Environmental Protection recently came under fire as the landlord of Famed Silver Springs.  Documents from DEP show that the $2 Billion Plus agency presided over dumping of thousands of gallons of animal waste into the Lagoon at Silver Springs even while they were funding efforts to protect the springs.  The pollution has been going on for years at Silver Springs yet FDEP sort of defends Bad Management Practices at the attraction for reasons that remain hidden.

TAX ACTION GROUP, feels that FDEP pollution testing auditors may have not actually have tested polluting dump sites in Ocala Florida, for decades.  it is possible that they did little or no testing, no verification of the facts as they certified and monitored hundreds of tons of nitrates entering the Drinking Water Aquifer and Silver Springs. 

Senator Lee Constantine wants the Aquifer and Springs cleaned up.  There may not be time to aquire actual test results to bring to the Senator's attention.  The Senator seemed to be visibly upset when he was told last year that he had not been informed about Orlando Sewer and Storm Sewer Dumping near Weikiva Springs and Ocala sink hole and Storm Sewer drains in Orlando and Ocala. Hopefully, this year Senator Constantine will be at the front line to stop the Kanapaha sewer discharge into the drinking water aquifer.  Authorities are turning their attention toward the polluters and the state testers who might have helped them pollute the Drinking Water Aquifer.

Aquifer Repair Man has a difficult time getting Ocala City Authorities to Stop Dumping into Drinking Water Aquifer.

We can't clean up the Silver Springs Attraction if the City Continues to Dump Tons of Nitrates into the Aquifer just a few miles above the Spring Vent.

Radio Media and Print Media are beginning to ask that pollutants not be sent to mix with our drinking water.  St. Johns Scientist are showing the signs of this polluting of the Drinking Water Aquifer in Algae Growth in Silver Springs.

DEP has been asked to end the process of hiring spokesmen to discuss pollution of the Drinking Water Aquifer by Cities and Counties under DEP control.

 Legislators question the wisdom of mixing Storm Sewer Pollution with Drinking Water Aquifer.  Most Legislators are surprised that DEP allows Dumping of Pollutants from Storm Sewers and "Poop" Sewers into the Drinking Water Aquifer just up stream from Ocala.  The Alachua County Gainesville Kanapaha dump pipe mixes Sewer Affluent with The Drinking Water Aquifer and hope for the Best.  Marion County is left with the cleanup.  The sewage can be filtered out of Ocala Drinking Water but at great expense.  Don Browning and Company ask, "Why dump pollutants into the Drinking Water Aquifer in the First Place?"

Actual pollution arrives at the springs from over 1000 acres draining into tiny 1 acre Springs Vents. The City of Ocala alone sends 28 drains into the upper Aquifer just above Silver Springs.  

It is easy to see why the Springs are receiving too much nutrient in the form of runoff nitrogen.

It is impossible to stop the Algae Bloom on Silver Springs with the City of Ocala sending its Storm Sewer Runoff overland and underground to Silver Springs.

Scientist sometimes express puzzlement when asked where the pollution is coming from.  If the Legislature gets wind of the seriousness of the Storm Drains poked into the Aquifer and the Natural Sink Holes used for drainage of known pollution tonnage, the grants and missions for studies will be saved.

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Drinking water is a fundamental asset of each Floridian.  Don't let a few old bad dumping practices steal value from each citizen.  We will have to pay to filter our Drinking Water.  Currently it is still clean enough to drink if taken far from the dump sites.  Springs Pollution is helpful in seeing the pollution first hand.