Water Wars - Mexico

Apparently, he believes that Florida is an emotionally fragile state, and he is willing to do anything to protect us from the twin horrors of illegal immigrants and Mickey Mouse, not to mention the word we aren't supposed to say.

 

He has actually gotten praise from some environmental folks for his budget approval for several strong environmental programs like land purchases, springs protection and restoration, and Everglades restoration. Where I think he is failing environmentally is maintaining the republican reduction in environmental enforcement. In particular, the issue I’m most familiar with and worried about is the lack of compliance by developers and their engineers to ensure storm water treatment systems actually function as they were designed and permitted to do. Twenty+ years ago state regulators required such storm water management systems to be recertified by the design professionals every few years. That requirement is still a condition of permit issuance but there is no enforcement of this requirement. I am not a fan of bureaucracy but this is an exception for me. Our water bodies here in FL are hurting.

 

Well said. I think he'd get a much more favorable reception from moderates/independents if he'd switch his persona from anti-woke warrior to eco-warrior.

 

I would settle for a responsible governor. Obviously, protecting the environment is important, but there are other issues that need to be addressed, too. He has done nothing about high property insurance rates, for one thing.

 

I agree that big ag is a main culprit in WQ degradation, but statute gives them a big out and politics keeps that status quo. I disagree on whether or not you should have been doing recerts, though. I haven’t worked outside the NWFWMD in ten years but before then I did projects in all the other WMDs and at least one of them (SWFWMD) actually sent automatic notification to all permittees and EORs that recert was due in 90 days. I just pulled up two random ERPs, one 2022 and one 2023, and both have the standard “Inspections by a Registered Professional” condition. Your experience seems to be just what I was talking about. There is no enforcement/tracking any more to ensure that the inspections and recertification occur. Without this activity dry ponds grow fish and frogs, and wet ponds silt in and become completely covered in nuisance/exotic plant species. If your 5500 acre ERP included stormwater mgmt, look at the conditions around #20+; that’s where the two I just checked are found. You might not have had to do a recert because your clients (permittees) are not abiding by their permits and there is no longer permit agency follow-up. I think Rick Scott eliminated this agency action to be more development friendly during his administration. Edit: All you guys in consulting should be tracking the permits you help clients get and getting your clients to hire you to recertify your designs every three to five years. Easy money…as long as your design is sound.

 

Agricultural fields in California's Tulare Lake Basin could be underwater for years to come, experts say

 

If only water could cross the border as easy as immigrants.

 

It is easier to cross the river with Mexico keeping more water out of the river, thereby supporting the immigrant migration and their cartel economy…

 

This past Monday an additional 3 feet of snow fell on the Grand Mesa, but spring in the valley is bringing warmer temperatures and the annual melt has begun. The combined flow of the Colorado and Gunnison rivers flowing through Grand Junction is swelling the rivers' banks. Currently the flow through the city is estimated at 17,000 cubic feet per second.

 

Build a wall, I have it on good authority Mexico will pay for it.

 

Mexico's drought, heatwave and water shortage are so bad even police are blocking traffic in protest

Mexico's drought, heatwave and water shortage are so bad even police are blocking traffic in protest