A rendering of the proposed wastewater discharge project in Wakulla County.
Wakulla County leaders will hear input from residents Tuesday on a plan to filter treated wastewater through a local aquifer. The proposal has raised concerns from local environmentalists.
The county plans to turn a 106-acre piece of recently-purchased property into a park and wetlands site, where treated wastewater would also flow into a nearby aquifer.
Opponents of the plan worry elevated levels of nitrogen in the treated wastewater could harm natural habitats. Jack Rudloe, who founded the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab in Panacea, calls the proposed project short-sighted.
“It’s going to be a colossal fight to keep our wonderful county from screwing up the springs and the bay because it’s going to go out into spring creek out into the Gulf of Mexico and come right back on top of our beleaguered oysters and the rest of our seafood.”
Here’s the full text of Gov. Phil Murphy’s state budget speech
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“My fellow New Jerseyans.
Six weeks ago, I stood in this empty theater to lay out my vision for the year ahead and for the New Jersey we believe and know we can build, on the other side of the pandemic.
Much has changed in the six weeks since the State of the State Address.
We worked hard to crush the curve again, and today the second wave of the pandemic, which was just hitting its peak six weeks ago, is subsiding.
The numbers of patients in our hospitals, and of those requiring intensive care and ventilators, are all down. Almost every day, more patients leave our hospitals than are admitted.
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LITTLETON George Sanders is well known in town for his many volunteer efforts and commitment to the town s civic life.
In addition to serving on several committees, Sanders regularly attends Town Meeting.
When Sanders thinks about Black History Month, he thinks of his long military career, which presented both opportunities including nuclear and chemical specialization - and hurdles.
Eye on history
Sanders attended a segregated school growing up in South Carolina. We were taught the history of the Blacks that contributed to this nation as a whole, Sanders said. This included the Tuskegee Airmen, and the 54th Infantry Unit of the Civil War.