What you can do about WFNF, slides --Suwannee Riverkeeper 2026-04-02

[Suwannee River Basin and Estuary]

[WWALS Vision and Mission]

[Floridan Aquifer]

[Rick Davis, chair of the River contamination Task Force of the dozen downstream Florida counties]

[Stigma]

[The Suwannee River Basin in Florida is downstream from Valdosta’s wastewater spills; should it also be downstream of Jacksonville?]

[What problem needs solving?]

[Historic Water Use and Population -vs- Projected Water Demand and Population in NFRWSP]

[Demand and population where?]

[North Florida regional water supply planning boundary]

[Figure C3: Change in Upper Floridan aquifer from 2035 withdrawals within the NFSEG domain.]

[Ichetucknee Head Spring]

[Agriculture uses most SRWMD water But Public Supply uses most SJRWMD water]

[Why is this a solution? (Treated JAX wastewater piped into wetlands in the Suwannee Basin)]

[SJRWMD Board November 12, 2025]

[North Florida Regional Recharge Project - Conceptualization]

[Project Cost: $1 Billion Who Pays?]

[JEA approved \$400 million for WFNF 2025-11-19]

[Who is this “the region”?]

[What’s in it for JEA?]

[FL SB 64]

[WATER FIRST NORTH FLORIDA Project Milestones]

[Route of this 60-mile-plus pipeline or pipelines?]

[Water First North Florida- Next Steps]

[Why is SRWMD a junior non-voting partner along with JEA, GRU, Clay Utilities, and St. Johns Co. Utilities?]

[The 10 Most Recent Years are the Warmest on Record!!]

[Solutions without massive infrastructure:]

[Wells below forestry ditches: Why not considered?]

[How about instead pipe that water into Jacksonville’s drinking water?]

[Desalination]

[Desalination plants elsewhere: TX, AZ, CA]

[Actually, Florida already desalinates]

[Desalination could eliminate Jacksonville’s water withdrawals]

[SRWMD and SJRWMD reasons for rejecting desalination]

[Continued: SRWMD and SJRWWMD reasons for rejecting desalination]

[Example modern seawater desalination plants]

[What about SB 64? Where should JEA Buckman treated wastewater go?]

[Goldhead Branch St Park seriously depleted lakes May 2021]

[Lake Brooklyn Keystone January 2017]

[https://wwals.net/issues/wfnf]

[Ways to make public comments]

[When you comment:]

[Framing]

[Examples of public comments:]

[More from the Columbia County Commission meeting:]

[Still more from the Columbia County meeting:]

[Comments from a Live Oak meeting]

[More examples:]

[Ask for explanations or to stop the projects]

[Government bodies against WFNF: so far]

[Contact:]