Worthington Spring News Today

Regulatory agencies exist to regulate the amount of harm that our springs experience, not to protect those springs from harm.

It was Voltaire’s “Candide” that reminded us to tend to one’s own garden. Whether he meant taking care of the Garden of Eden, or the small portion of the world that is closest and dearest to each of us, we are drawn to the importance of helping to make the world healthier and safer in our relatively small local area of personal influence.  In that regard, the Florida Springs Institute just completed a three-year study of our home river and springs — namely, the lower Santa Fe River, ...