Winning for Our Water
In three years, Downriver Project campaigns have resulted in $3.6 million for a 230-acre groundwater buffer and nature park; a major municipal sewer system upgrade; the creation of the new Wakulla Springs Lab at Florida State University; and the defeat of three dangerous oil and wastewater proposals.
Our all-volunteer organization has fought and won against:
A two-year bid by SunStop Oil to build a 16-pump gas station on the Wakulla Springs cave
A major effort by the Wakulla County government to dump municipal wastewater into a protected water supply through a land deal with a former county commissioner
An attempt by a developer to install 88 conventional septic tanks on an underground water system that flows to Spring Creek, which would have left taxpayers to clean up the mess
Now, we’re working as part of the Kill the Drill coalition to keep an oil company from drilling in the Apalachicola River Basin. This is our biggest challenge yet.