Jaxport Push to Dredge the St. Johns River :The Tragic Results

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THE TRUE SIGNIFICANCE of the Corps' impact upon the Florida environment(St. John's River) has yet to be measured in full. But one thing is certain: there is enough positive evidence that the end of a Florida that used to be grows ever closer. These may seem to be rather foreboding words but remembering Florida's precariously balanced ecology,and considering the disastrous results already imposed on a suffering land, they ring with an air of obvious certainty. There is visible evidence that Jaxport has plans to use the Corps to defile Florida's waterways, and in Florida water is life. When the water is gone, Florida will be gone,also. The pathetic part of such philosophy is this: while the Corps concentrates on satisfying the demands of Jaxport, it often initiates incomprehensible results of the little jetties in Mayport. The St. Lucie Estuary is a classic example. Death came to the St. Lucie by strangulation. As if the preponerance of silt alone were not enough to strangle the estuary, other factors began contributing to its demise. Long tendrils of green slime began to appear in the water.It continued to thicken and eventually reached from shore to shore. The Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission took samples of its own to be analyzed by the laboratories of the Florida Board of Health. Its report was significantly different: "Several strains of eutrophic types of algae, one of which is dangerous toxic both to animals and to man." Dr. O.E. Frye Director of the FWC went on record with this Statement in House Document 369, Item IV,page 315:

"With respect to the present system of operation, there are violent salinity changes and excessive turbidities which assist in making the Estuary a biological desert, instead of a nursery and feeding area for fish, and wildlife resources."

Once again the public will lose a valuable piece of land and the reshaping or destruction of the little Jetties to satisfy Jaxports hunger for larger mega ships is quite insane the narrow channels themselves already pose a risk for the larger ships not to mention the marine life. Its time to put a stop to this madness! Stop the Dredging in and around the little  jetties.