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What kind of water you ask? Ocean,
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remarkable 75 percent of Neapolitans and
Floridians agreed preserving sensitive land Text Copyright 2015 all rights reserved.
and water was essential and should be No part of this publication may be reproduced in any
paid for with the revenues derived from the form by any electronic or mechanical means without
doc stamps revenues when they voted for Amendment 1. From permission from the publisher. Life in Naples regrets that
Amendment 1 we would be looking at around $758 million no responsibility can be accepted for unsolicited material.
annually.Purchasing 46,000 acres just south of Lake Okeechobee, Opinions expressed by contributors or advertisers are not
this would be used largely as a reservoir for discharge from Lake
O. The water would be stored there and slowly released into the necessarily those of the publisher.
Everglades whereby it would again, slowly be cleaned up as it
begins to be absorbed by the infrastructure of the Everglades, publisher reg buxton
therefore restoring the Everglades by replenishing the greatly marketing consultant joel kessler
needed water that it requires. Why should we care? We should batya maman
care because without the purchase of this 46,000 acres, the Army contributing writers kelly merritt
Corps has no choice but to release into the Caloosahatchee and mayor john sorey
St. Lucie rivers, sending billions of gallons of nutrient rich water graphic design bill barnett
into these rivers and causing environmental consequences of dr. allen weiss
untold proportions. karen coney coplin
jeff bohr
Instead of this correct and natural fix for this problem our diana jarrett
legislators are thinking of turning this into plain old political pork. sandra lee buxton
Instead of helping the environment naturally they are thinking of kaydee tuff
bringing home the bacon to their districts. Such as $96.8 million lois bolin
for a Yankee Lake Surface Water Plant in Seminole County, sue huff
$65 million for reclaimed water systems in Broward County and john s. cox
$50 million for wastewater treatment in the Keys. To determine tim tetzlaff
appropriate requests,legislators should read Amendment 1’s ballot
summary that made it clear the measure was intended to “acquire, opus studio, inc.
restore, improve and manage conservation lands” including
protecting water resources and drinking water sources. Wetlands,
forests, wildlife habitat and the Everglades are mentioned. Water
plants are not.Water is so valuable to us we cannot afford to waste
it or pollute it. We cannot build another Everglades only nature
can do so. We can help nature and we should.

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