The Florida Springs Council, St. Johns Riverkeeper, Sierra Club and other conservation organizations are calling on Governor DeSantis to veto a $400 million “back of the bill” appropriation to the St. Johns River Water Management District to acquire lands and construct a reservoir and stormwater treatment area near the headwaters of the St. Johns River. You can read our letter to the Governor here.
We need you to join us in asking Governor DeSantis to veto this enormous, expensive, and unvetted appropriation, which was added to the “Back of the Bill” during the final two weeks of Legislative Session - Fill out your information and your own subject line to send a pre-written, but customizable, email to the Governor!
If funded, the Grove Land Reservoir would redirect over one hundred million gallons of polluted water per day from South Florida into the St. Johns River. This could have serious negative impacts on the St. Johns River, the Indian River Lagoon near Sebastian, and Outstanding Florida Springs near Orlando. It continues the disastrous trend of “solving” South Florida’s pollution problems by moving the pollution into Central and North Florida.
The $400 million Grove Land appropriation is the second largest “environmental” appropriation in the budget, and it was never discussed in any legislative session committee, meaning there was no opportunity for public comment. The supposed project sponsor, the St. Johns River Water Management District, was not even aware of the appropriation until a week after the budget had passed.
The funding was kept in the dark, and it should not be included in the budget nor should it be sold as a land conservation project because the land has no conservation value.
We need Governor DeSantis to veto the Grove Land Project (Section 170 of HB 5001, the General Appropriations Act for 2024-25) to protect the St. Johns River, Florida’s springs and the Indian River Lagoon. Be sure to personalize your subject line; you can also edit the message to the governor before you send it.
In addition to sending an email to the Governor, please call Gov. DeSantis at (850) 717-9337 and urge him to veto the Grove Land Reservoir and Stormwater Treatment Area. You can say something like "As your constituent, I am calling to urge you to veto the enormous, expensive, and unvetted $400 million appropriation to St. Johns River Water Management District to acquire lands within the Grove Land Reservoir and Stormwater Treatment Area project boundary."
The Florida Springs Council, St. Johns Riverkeeper, Sierra Club and other conservation organizations are calling on Governor DeSantis to veto a $400 million “back of the bill” appropriation to the St. Johns River Water Management District to acquire lands and construct a reservoir and stormwater treatment area near the headwaters of the St. Johns River. You can read our letter to the Governor here.
We need you to join us in asking Governor DeSantis to veto this enormous, expensive, and unvetted appropriation, which was added to the “Back of the Bill” during the final two weeks of Legislative Session - Fill out your information and your own subject line to send a pre-written, but customizable, email to the Governor!
If funded, the Grove Land Reservoir would redirect over one hundred million gallons of polluted water per day from South Florida into the St. Johns River. This could have serious negative impacts on the St. Johns River, the Indian River Lagoon near Sebastian, and Outstanding Florida Springs near Orlando. It continues the disastrous trend of “solving” South Florida’s pollution problems by moving the pollution into Central and North Florida.
The $400 million Grove Land appropriation is the second largest “environmental” appropriation in the budget, and it was never discussed in any legislative session committee, meaning there was no opportunity for public comment. The supposed project sponsor, the St. Johns River Water Management District, was not even aware of the appropriation until a week after the budget had passed.
The funding was kept in the dark, and it should not be included in the budget nor should it be sold as a land conservation project because the land has no conservation value.
We need Governor DeSantis to veto the Grove Land Project (Section 170 of HB 5001, the General Appropriations Act for 2024-25) to protect the St. Johns River, Florida’s springs and the Indian River Lagoon. Be sure to personalize your subject line; you can also edit the message to the governor before you send it.
In addition to sending an email to the Governor, please call Gov. DeSantis at (850) 717-9337 and urge him to veto the Grove Land Reservoir and Stormwater Treatment Area. You can say something like "As your constituent, I am calling to urge you to veto the enormous, expensive, and unvetted $400 million appropriation to St. Johns River Water Management District to acquire lands within the Grove Land Reservoir and Stormwater Treatment Area project boundary."