The Floridan Aquifer

Florida aquifer water can be repeated, but can not necessarily be an infinite cycle. After the rain brings vegetation and evaporates, it returns to the river, stream, lake and may infiltrate underground rocks and caves through the limestone to the aquifer. It may take years to reach the surface. Water is a valuable resource that people frequently deal with erroneously and thinks normal. The explorers sneaked into the underpass and chased the waterways flowing through the house, the street, the town and the meadow to drown the dirty polluted pond.

About 6,000 years ago, Tampa Bay formed the mouth of the valley of a river dipped in saltwater with a wide estuary connecting the Gulf of Mexico. Until then, there was a big freshwater lake that could be supplied by natural hot spring water from aquifers in Florida. The exact process of the transition from the lake to the bay is not completely understood, but the main theory is that the last ice age sea level rise and the large counter bore near the present bay entrance caused the lake and the bay is there.

Florida is really at the forefront of being an environmental hazard. Climate change is obvious here. Sea level rise invades salt aquifers in southern Florida and supplies drinking water to all parts of South Florida. For example, during our king's tide, we also saw floods on the streets of Miami Beach, even in the inland areas of the day without clouds. The future flood prediction in the more coastline communities in Florida will be tough in the future

Currently, news of destructive US pipeline projects such as DAPL are spreading all over the world. In my own Florida state, the Sabal Trail Pipeline is threatening the Floridan aquifer, one of the most wild rivers and one of the world's most productive aquifers. As an enthusiastic environmentalist, I am looking for ways to combat these developments that seem to be far from my reach. One day, I saw the director Matthew Cooke 's video and learned about the # bankexit campaign. Google's quick search provides a wealth of charts linking banks such as Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase to their respective pipeline projects. My guilt feelings over the past few years have come back, I know that I can not make excuses this time.

In October 2015, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as a "very important concern" that the proposed route of the Sabar Trail pipeline poses a threat to contaminate the aquifers of Florida I wrote down. Unfortunately, the US Environmental Protection Agency is under pressure from industry pressure to withdraw from the initial opposition, the Florida Governor's Rickscott management says that the US Environmental Protection Agency's report is a legal issue on the pipeline It was prevented from becoming part of. There were limited options to fight against Sabal Trail and other pipelines for Republican Control and Legislative Assembly at Parliament - and the Democratic Party in the Pocket of the Fossil Fuel Industry - to be founded. In Florida the Governor 's Scott government actually weakened the drinking water standards of last year and allowed to discover high levels of methane and other toxic chemicals during hydraulic crush. Perhaps this is not surprising. Scott Governor has invested over $ 700,000 in these pipeline companies.