Ocklawaha River: Weed-Choked Reservoir Blocks Free Flow From Silver Springs To St. Johns River
Inspecting a boat ramp at the Ocklawaha River’s Rodman Reservoir are Jennifer Carr, president of the Florida Defenders of the Environment, and her daughter, Carmen, and the group’s executive director Jim Gross. Rodman Reservoir is plagued by a chronic growth of muck and floating weeds, as seen here at the boat ramp. Weeds have engulfed the ramp and dock. A legacy of the hasty construction of the dam and reservoir in the 1960s is that it left many trees in the reservoir's boundary. Part 3 of Special Series Cannon Springs has spent a half-century entombed by a government blunder of a dam an...
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