Sign the petition: Florida’s Right to Clean Water

Sign the petition: Florida’s Right to Clean Water

by | May 3, 2022 | Blog, News and Press Releases, Take Action

SIGN THE PETITION

On Earth Day, April 22nd, your Lake Worth Waterkeeper, Reinaldo Diaz, joined fellow environmental groups and activists for an important virtual press conference.

Standing knee deep in the beautiful yet fragile waters around Munyon Cove, he helped to launch the Florida’s Right to Clean Water petition drive for signatures. The petition calls for a new amendment to the Florida constitution stating that clean water is a right of all citizens in Florida.

The man behind the newest push in the rights for nature movement is Joseph Bonasia, a retired English teacher living in Cape Coral. After an attempt to add rights of nature to the Florida constitution didn’t succeed in 2021, Bonasia created the Florida Right to Clean Water organization. He hopes to get the 900,000 signatures needed to qualify for the 2024 ballot. The wording may have changed for this new amendment, but the message remains the same: the people of Florida have a constitutional right to clean water!

“In a new study examining water quality across the U.S., Florida ranked first for the highest total acres of lakes too polluted for swimming or healthy aquatic life,” WLRN-FM reported last month. “That means water can have high levels of fecal matter and other bacteria that can sicken people or low levels of oxygen or other pollution that can harm fish and other aquatic life.”

– April 28th, 2022 article by Craig Pittman

Join us in this grassroots effort to ensure Floridian’s rights to clean water. We need 900,000 signatures to qualify for the 2024 ballot.

This campaign’s mission is to take this to Florida’s voters; to educate them, to collect their petitions, and to ensure their voice is heard.

Will you help us in this fight for our right to clean water?

SIGN THE PETITION

Raise Your Voice: Tell your commissioners defend our communities!

Raise Your Voice: Tell your commissioners defend our communities!

by | May 5, 2021 | Blog, Cyanobacteria, News and Press Releases, Take Action

RAISE YOUR VOICE

Call YOUR town's commissioner. Tell them that cyanobacteria blooms will effect all of us in PBC, and all commissioners should come together to defend their citizens.
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“A blue-green algae bloom was identified in water discharging to the Lake Worth Lagoon last month with toxin levels high enough to trigger the posting of multiple warning signs at Spillway Park, a popular fishing spot”

-The Palm Beach Post

Towns all over the Lake Worth Lagoon watershed are being subjected to a toxic cyanobacteria bloom that fills the air with a poisonous stench. Humans breathing cyanotoxins have an increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and prion diseases –and all are incurable. Pets can be mortally sickened. From the Glades to Palm Beach, we should all RAISE OUR VOICE.

If enough of us take action quickly, our Commissioners should attend the Army Corp of Engineers’ LOSOM meeting on Friday from 9am to 3pm and fight effectively for us.

You can email your comment or testify during public comment period by clicking the button below.

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UPDATE: Protecting Lake Worth Lagoon from developers

UPDATE: Protecting Lake Worth Lagoon from developers

by | Mar 12, 2021 | Take Action

Rodney Barreto recently claimed he is selling his property in Munyon Cove, but the worst thing he can do is sell to another developer who intends to continue efforts to destroy and fill the estuary.

Please click the link below to send Barreto an email telling him to sell to someone who will permanently protect the Cove, ideally the State or a local government. Any development in this sensitive habitat would destroy it, it must be protected there is no compromise!

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Protecting Lake Worth Lagoon from Developers

Protecting Lake Worth Lagoon from Developers

by | Feb 26, 2021 | Take Action

Taking a fight to a state agency head is no easy task,

but this case is bigger than the Lake Worth Lagoon, because it threatens to open up un-permitted development anywhere on Florida’s awe-inspiring coastlines.

To put it briefly, the chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, Mr. Rodney Barreto, is charged with protecting our fisheries and wildlife

—yet he is pursuing condo development on Lake Worth Lagoon that would mean filling or dredging a total of 16 acres.  This would make room for 300+ residences, 2 marinas, etc, beside Singer Island and MacArthur State Park, and wipe out the current habitat sheltering manatees, young green sea turtles, bonefish, small sawtooth fish, manta rays and more. 

When the top boss of a powerful state agency chooses to enrich himself at the expense of the environment and community

–in my honest opinion, it’s a terrible disservice and my main reason for doing this work. To me, this is exactly why Florida has a bad reputation for corruption in government, and the complete disregard for the state’s natural beauty and resources, in favor of money-making.

Palm Beach Post Article

This may be a lengthy legal battle to stop these and other development plans for our Lagoon, but the animals can’t fight for themselves.

Contributions to Lake Worth Waterkeeper will make a difference to the community of fish, birds, manatees, turtles, residents, tourists, fishing & diving enthusiasts, kayakers, canoers, day trippers and all who love having healthy water and a clean beach. If you’d like to donate, please click on the contribute button below.

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