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Your guide to this year's proposed Springs Legislation
Updated February 4th 2020 Your Springs Policy Experts here at the Florida Springs Council are, as always, keeping a close eye on all...
Dec 1, 2021


Press Release: OSFR & Florida Springs Council File Legal Challenge to Seven Springs Permit
For Immediate Release March 16, 2021 Contacts: Ryan Smart, smart@floridaspringscouncil.org, 561-358-7191 Mike Roth,...
Mar 16, 2021


Petition for Administrative Hearing
On March 16, 2021, the Florida Springs Council (FSC) and Our Santa Fe River (OSFR) filed a legal challenge seeking to overturn the...
Mar 15, 2021


VIDEO for press use: Nestle Permit Approved
This video is of the rally at the water management district the morning the Nestle Permit was approved. It was shot at the Suwannee River...
Feb 23, 2021


Nestle Online Press Conference, Florida Springs Council
Seven Springs/Nestle Water Use Permit Virtual Press Conference View or download a recording of the press conference at...
Feb 23, 2021


Rainbow River Spared from Westgate Resort
We won! For those of us who love and fight for Florida’s springs, these are words we don’t get to say often enough. WE WON! The Florida...
Sep 23, 2020


North Florida’s springs are underfunded and ignored by legislators
Environmental spending flows south, leaving North Florida in the lurch. Florida Springs Council executive director Ryan Smart writes for the
May 18, 2020
Apr 3, 2020


FSC and 59 other organizations ask Governor DeSantis to VETO the "Clean Waterways Act"
When the original version of the “Clean Waterways Act” was first introduced in 2019, it had the support of the Florida Springs Council...
Mar 24, 2020


Press Release: Clean Waterways Act is Greenwashing
PDF here FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27, 2020 Contacts: Ryan Smart, Florida Springs Council, smarts421@gmail.com, 561-358-7191 David...
Feb 27, 2020


DEP scientist testifies against his agency's springs cleanup plans
Excerpts from a story by Bruce Ritchie reporting for Politico TALLAHASSEE -- A scientist with the Department of Environmental Protection...
Nov 17, 2019


The Water Is Already Low At A Florida Freshwater Spring, But Nestlé Wants More - NPR
NPR's Greg Allen recently visited Florida's Springs Heartland to report on the growing opposition to a water use permit that would allow...
Nov 9, 2019
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