Painting with Words.  Environmental Art begins with visualization of a scene. Learning to create an idealized reality begins with a thought process that paints a picture.  Meet Jack Holder, Adventurerist for Governments.

North of the tourist crowd, and off the big highways, Jack sat with his gnarled hands on his second drink, in an establishment sandwiched between the Ocklawaha River to the East, and a really big blue lake to the west. Jack had parked himself in a tacky bar to gather local information, and understand the area.  Time to rest and understand his new assignment.  He would be receiving details soon, but Jack was already developing a general idea why he had been directed to this backwater Central Florida town.  "Set me up with a menu when you have time," Jack said.  "You bet sugar", said the barmaid without turning around.

The rays came in the skylight, dancing on the dirty, old fishing net decor, florida's hot sun was preparing for the final dash to the horizon.  Jack wondered to himself if the house bought a round at sunset ala Key West style.  Water drops hit the tin roof left over from the earlier rain, the big oak branches picked up the breeze off the lake.  There was no need to rush, the booze was good, and Jack deserved some time alone, to think, and heal. 

Sliding into an intellectual personal zone, Jack entered a daydream like thought process, time seemed to stop, or just not matter.  He was aware of more big water drops hitting the roof as Jack studied the half filled bottle of scotch the bartender was using to make his day more tolerable. 

Jack didn't even know her name, but was concerned and wondered about her life path, he imagined how she might have arrived at her current situation working the bar, the center of attention for the assembled customers.  Too many piercing and tattoos had spoiled her remarkable beauty, but life had not been so harsh as to diminish her ability to make an acceptable Dewars Double with a hint of soda. 

More important to Jack, was the discomfort radiating from the two bikers seated to his right.   Not sure why, but  perhaps it was something about the newish boots on biker number two.  No shift lever mark on the top of the left boot.  The jacket said Harley, but the boot top told a different story. 

 Jack felt his Walther PPK, with the inside of his forearm, pushing up just enough to make the weapon more available if needed.  Something about the chain linked to Biker number one's wallet was out of place.  Hooked inside the loop, rather than around and through to reattach at the chain.  Were the two hippies on the stools to Jack's left actually as zoned out as they appeared, or were they over playing their role?  All four had arrived during Jacks first glorious Dewars.

Reading the entire room in the heavy facets of the thick base of his drink glass, Jack wondered if his legendary, intense professionalism, was oozing into paranoia.  The thought was fleeting as Jack realized the bikers gaze was too high and the focus too distant, for the small drinking establishment.  Jack quickly calculated the angle to the mirrored beer display, and realized the bikers and hippies were communicating, as the lights began to fade and Jack's face impacted the bar.  Jack was unable to hold up his head, under the weight of what must have been Biker number three's club fist.  

The realization of trouble, caused a tension in Jack's neck and shoulders that brought up his right forearm, as if by direction, pitching the piece to Jack's left hand, as the scotch glass split his upper lip.

The response was automatic, in the developing action, and just in time to direct leg shots left, right and delicately down between the legs of his bar stool, into the boots directly behind him. 

Buying time was key, in order to tumble to the floor and release trunk and head shots from below with the PPk, while reaching for his trusty Glock.  Grateful for the lack of training operatives were receiving these days, Jack emptied half a clip into the skinny biker, knowing, his big buddy would be a nano tic slower.  Jack thought about the slow motion actions of lighting fast thought processes.  Einstein was right about time and space slowing, was his faint thought, as Jack watched round number 4 exit the barrel, by the light of the compensator flash.  The hippies auto pistol was now down, as an unfortunate result of the foot injury, and the barrel was aimed directly at Jack's chest, as the Glock rounds came up to the hippie, like salmon attacking a spillway, determined to achieve their goal.  Smashed and detached, the hippie fingers engaged the trigger but with no effect as the weapon exploded upward.

Jack rolled to his left and slid on fresh blood, as he emptied both clips.  His attention now on the bartender.  If she came up, above the bar, she was dead, and if she stayed down, scared and appropriate, she was innocent and would live.  New clips engaged and the slide released, no face appeared, and Jack was pleased.........  The front door, closed moments ago, was now open to an empty street, and Jack knew more was to come...............Yes, as a small shadow appeared to pass through the doorway, Jack knew to cover his ears as he rolled for cover, past a hugh stuffed alligator, and snugly behind the dusty honky tonk piano..........Ka-Boom ........and the windows were gone.  Jack swung into action, somebody would be sorry, was jack's thought as a second shadow came into the room and a pineapple shaped object rolled up against the lifeless body of biker number one.  Jack, now covered in stuffed alligator parts and ivory keys, hoped the piano was really well built by old time craftsmen, and ready for test number two.


Learn more about Jack and his adventures in the next installment.

 We join Rocky and Slade as they walk past the big effluent tank called "Big Mo" heading into the valve nest field, I trail a few steps behind, the new guy on the job. I'm Guy Barkley, doing undercover work for my next book.  I learned long ago, the best way to understand any issue is to get involved down at the level where the wrenches turn.

As usual, Slade is mumbling about not making mistakes, not talking to anyone in particular, but remembering when he was covered to his chest in funk, by a coworker who didn't bother to read the label on a valve.

Turn the wrong valve, and half of Alachua County wouldn't have plumbing tomorrow.  Rocky heard Slade in one ear, and could still hear the foreman's warnings from over 6 months ago when he had answered the add for an engineer out at the sewer plant everyone called the "pig farm".  Seems so long ago, a memory faded like the ability to smell.  He had to agree though, it pays to be careful when you work around Tanks of Poop!

It was a dark and stormy night. Flashes spread across the sky to the south, from the storm that never came, and for that Rocky and Slade were grateful, I on the other hand liked the pressure of a good rain while working.  Gave me exponentially more material for my writing. The Storms slid by to the north yesterday, must have been a sign, that the rain and lighting slid by to the south today, kind of like a prayer had been answered.  The lightning helped them see their work, even from a distance. Slade was a positive chap, Rocky was not. 

The workers opened a valve and sludge from the sewer plant effluent tank began to bubble and gurgle, as sewer waste from yesterday's processing, surged down a big 5 foot pipe to the darkness of the Aquifer Drain Pipe.  Quick, we have to empty all 6 million gallons before the bosses come back said the tall muscular foreigner who seemed to be the leader.  I wish they would let the bosses work with us for even a single night.   Not sure what the reason is that we can't dump in the daylight why should we have to dump all this at night?  Does it make the discharge more beneficial if we dump at night?  It has to do with sewage volume that surges in the day light hours when people are up and about.

Seems like life would be better for everyone if the plant manager could fess' up to what we actually have to do to keep this place running.  I wonder if the professors at the University realize that the Sewer Effluent is pumped daily into the Drinking Water Aquifer.

When my book hits the best seller list they will learn that "doing your business" and flushing is the easy part.  Every day its the same old thing on this end, get rid of yesterday's poop because here comes a new supply.  

A Foreman coasted to a stop in his pickup, shouted to us without bothering to get out, "Hey Rocky, got another 6 million gallons for you and take your time".  "Its a little thicker today,  pump #2 burned out and the boys had to get creative or we would have gotten really behind."  Yes Sir boss said Rocky with a little more volume to convey respect.  "We'll handle it boss".

"We can't be found with a tank over flowing".  "If we are caught by the news paper guys, it will just become more difficult to discharge the sewage tomorrow" Rocky said.  "We get paid by the tank load, and docked for the entire tank if any spill occurs" and it won't likely change from that, but why, I don't rightly know".  

"Everything we handle is effluent", said the small pale worker with his hands on the valve wrench.  "We get paid like it is sewage, but the FDEP regulator said it was drinking water quality".  Yep, this sewage is already processed, good to drink they say, have you ever taken a drink?"  Rocky wonder if the folks down stream in Marion County see it that way.  Do you ever wonder how they ever got started putting sewage in the aquifer" Rocky said.  "No, it doesn't seem like they would take clean water from a spring run out, and pump that clean water back into the Aquifer".  "Maybe Gainesville use the treated sewage for irrigation on farms". "Well, let me break it to you this way, if we were willing to drink this sewage, would we be out here dumping it underground in the dead of night?  Don't believe everything they tell you, and don't drink the water here, or from any wells within 50 miles.  At least I wouldn't.

"Now you're scaring me, this won't get into the drinking water will it Rocky?" the skinny worker asked.  It would be bad if kids ever accidentally drank water mixed with this stuff.  All I wanted was a job, never wanted to hurt no body.  Doesn't seem like they would the bosses would intentionally do the wrong thing, does it?

As the night gave way to dawn, the big tank emptied, ready for todays load of effluent.  I heard the Foreman talking about selling this sewage to the farmers to grow crops.  Would that be better than putting it in the drinking water?  Hey!  Remember doo-doo; never call it sewage, yesterday this was sewage, today it's beneficial effluent.  There is a big difference.  

Couple of sewer workers got arrested down in Ocala last month.  Truck drivers spreading the Septage on a spray field.  Remember, you have to be able to swear to a judge that you never discharged sewage into a field much less into a pipe to the drinking water.  And besides, this isn't dumping, we are providing beneficial recharge to the aquifer.  This isn't a drain pipe, its a beneficial outfall.  How many times do I have to explain this? 

We have a certificate from the Environmental guy saying that this stuff flows away from the people over in Ocala.  And anyways, according to that environmental expert in the papers all the time,  if it goes south into Marion County, most will flow out the limestone pipe line into the springs and finally the St Johns River and finally the ocean.  This helps stuff grow in the rivers, and gives the fish something to eat. Sometimes Slade would get to talking and sound like he could make sense of anything. The men were all were kind of surprised how Slade could suddenly sound smart, like the doctors from the University.  Professors said lime stone filters poop out so we aren't technically doing anything wrong.  Although it does seem a little dumb to pee in the well, so to speak.  Doesn't seem right, but a mans got to have work.

And so, as the life work of a sewer plant worker flows out into the aquifer, Rocky thought about the life cycle of everything, and how he would decide right then and there, never to go swimming in the springs ever again.  Told me so, that night.  Lots is said between workers that needs to be heard by the politicians up in Tallahassee or at the County Commissions.  

Kanapaha Sewer Plant discharges 6 million gallons of sewer effluent daily, in a mad race to see if sewer effluent dumped into the drain pipe under pressure, can rush to the springs before the Storm Sewer Runoff entering at the Alachua Sink can get there under gravity feed.

Sun is coming up.  Lets have a Bud and wash this smell out of our mouths before it sets.  Sometimes I think I its time I give this up, and get a more respectable job. I hate being a sewer guy.

Tank was empty, "Wow, look at the crud in the bottom of that tank" said .  Did we take the beneficial stuff from the right tank?  It doesn't seem like they process the stuff like they used to.  Wonder if that DEP expert knows what he is doing.  Sure must be knowledgeable, with all that he gets paid.

See you at the Double Down Tavern, Its open till lunch.  You lock up.  Don't want that Florida Water Czar guy to get in here and see what we leave in Big Moe.

Stay Cool Rocky,  You too Slade, bring Guy with you, I'll buy him a beer.  The boy's got potential.  I gotta tell you the truth, what you said kind of got me thinking, I don't much like what we do.  It can't be good for the water supply down that pipe...... Somebody ought to write a book.... Bet it would be a best seller...........

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Just in, Federal District Judge Hinkle ruled that Florida must follow  an EPA mandate.  Legislators are determined to keep EPA out of Florida politics.

Florida is already establishing standards but the going is difficult because of Bad Management Practices in place for many years.  

FDEP is currently being encouraged to make a number of systemic changes in order to gain consistent policy across Water District boundries.

Utility pollution control will be the first that will have to clean up BMP's, Bad Management Practices.  The new standards evaluation will allow real evaluation of total daily maximum loads of nitrate.

Don Browning 

Senator Evelyn J. Lynn of District 7 chaired the powerful Marion County Legislative Delegation Tuesday afternoon.  First on the list of speakers was Don Browning detailing the need to understand Utility Pollution Discharge into the Floridan Aquifer.  

Every day, millions of gallons must be discarded from Sewer Treatment Plants.  If we miss a single week of dealing with a plant's effluent, millions of gallons of pollution back up in the system.  Alachua County's Kanapaha Sewer Plant, for example must discard 6 million gallons each day.  No where to dump, the plant pumps the effluent into the drinking water aquifer.  Every day of the year, 365 days per year.

Senator Steve Oelrich of District 14 in Marion and Alachua seemed out raged by the idea that there is one pollution standard for the private citizen and another standard for Government controlled Utilities.  Studying the St Johns River Management District Map of the Wekiva Springs Area, Senator Oelrich asked many pointed questions about Drainage Wells that discharge directly into the Aquifer.

Senator Carey Baker of District 20 questioned DEP spokesman Mr. Pete Colverson repeatedly about Springs Protection, asking what exactly Mr Colverson's firm Pandion Systems did as a FDEP spokesman for the state.

Having received the contract every year for the past 6 years, Senator Baker was concerned that other companies have a chance to compete for the lucrative contract.  

Citing the state financial difficulties, Springs Protection.Com Director Don Browning explained that a new much more powerful effort to protect Florida's Springs is now delivered free of charge by grass roots volunteers, at no cost to the State of Florida.  "There is a serious lack of coordination and leadership between DEP and the Water Districts.  Too much money is spent creating layers of government regulation covered by layers of spokesmen and other contractors who support the growth of the Water Districts and DEP."  "Through grants the City and Counties join in the fun with staff supporting all regulation that seems to flow from the money source," said Browning.

Times are changing through the efforts of the citizens of Florida, and FDEP must get on board.  It isn't even a close call when DEP approves Storm Sewer Drainage Well discharge into the limestone karst Florida underground.  FDEP is sending acid rain into contact with CACO3 Calcium Carbonate,  We are melting our City from below.  You could say we are "fizzing" our land with acid rain and this will cause sink holes to develop. 

Man made sink holes and drilled out pipes into the aquifer are the tools of crime.  Crime is a strong word, however if a citizen were to put 1/100 th of the dumping into a sink hole, it is common knowledge that they would be arrested.

EPA is the only authority above FDEP and DOT in Environmental Enforcement.  FDEP authorizes Water Districts and Utilities to continue BAD MANAGEMENT PRACTICES.  

A key to the continuing of the problem is that many people are in a position to know about the pollution but not able to blow the whistle on the polluters.  The public has been told that it would be too expensive to clean up the little bit of problem that is left from the old days, and people tend to go along.

The problem is that slowly the word does get out by word of mouth, and people lose trust in their government.

Like graft, using a double standard to pollute because you are the "police" erodes confidence in authority.

Millions have been spent on propaganda to mislead the public.  Even children are told in schools by what is called the WAV program that it is their responsibility to see that pollution doesn't get to our lakes, rivers and ground water.  The children and teachers are never told that under cover of clever words and deeds, pipes are inserted into the surface of the earth and the storm sewers dump directly into the Sink Holes, man made and natural.

Go to Fix Storm Water . Com to see some of the problems we must fix.

Don Browning

Editor, Springs Protection . Com

Browning Environmental.Com

Florida Department of Environmental Protection is in a position to solve pollution in the Floridan Aquifer, but is it really in their interest to reduce algae growth in our springs? 

Many say DEP is dependent on the problem in order to keep the public thinking each of them is causing the problem from their homes.  Meanwhile millions more in tax payer funding is given to DEP for Springs Protection and nothing is done to stop the dumping by utilities.  Now Environmentalist have brought suit and the EPA may require FDEP to stop the dumping.  It is myth that individual families and persons cause the pollution.  Every algae polluted spring has a government authorized agency or utility dumping in nitrates at an unsustainable rate.

The answer is No, if funding is important.  DEP has built a very lose business model around pollution in springs.

The story goes like this.  First a contract is given to a scientist to study the growing algae problem in Silver Springs.  Same Scientist gets the work as did his mentor, going back decades.

The report is growing nitrates with no hint of where the algae growing nutrients are coming from.  For sure there are no point sources to be targeted.  

FDEP goes to the Legislature with a request for additional Millions to solve the non specific problem causing the algae.

Funded ae community organization groups, not unlike ACORN community groups.  The community organizers are mostly no growth advocates who are pretty effective in rallying the far left, no growth folks to very aggressive political action.

The cycle repeats every year, the same people get the contracts, lots of land use changes.  Lots of government workers are hired, much hand ringing and the political organizers grow their business on tax payer funds.

Now along came the financial down turn.  It is possible we can stop the funding of these groups and actually attack the pollution sources.  

Pollution Source No 1 is the Kanapaha Sewer Effluent plant.  Looks like we can now stop 6 million gallons of nutrient rich sewer effluent from going into the aquifer daily.  10 parts per million of nitrates are causing our 1 part per million problem in the Springs.

Looks like we are winning. Most Legislators are on our side. 

More later,

Don Browning

Editor

FDEP must refocus on its mission.

Providing just enough total nitrogen to keep springs algae blooming?  That is a tall order.  How would you set up such a scheme?

First you need a daily supply in pretty good volume.  In the Central Florida area Gainesville's Kanapaha Sewer Plant fills the bill.  6 million gallons of nutrient rich Sewer Effluent, 10 times what is needed to keep Algae levels high, is sent into the Ground Water daily.  Guess who authorizes this discharge.  If you guess Florida's Department of Environmental Protection you are right.

Additionally, FDEP permits Alachua Cities to dump nutrient rich storm sewer runoff directly into Sweet Water Creek that feeds Alachua Sink, leading directly to the community drinking water.  Pollution is showing up.  Recent attempts to distract citizens from these pollution sources was made by the Ocala Star Banner, blaming a blue berry farm and the Alachua airport.  Both may be high in nitrates, however blaming them is like blaming Bernie's wife with an unbalanced check book for the Madoff financial Scam.

Ocala with 28 open drainage pipes to the Aquifer and new use of two sink holes to drain thousands of acres of city grime directly into the aquifer.

Agencie officials fear a cut in funding if the Springs are cleaned.  There is no incentive for FDEP, or St Johns Water Management District to clean up Silver Springs, or any springs.  As long as springs are crying for help, funding keeps flowing in to these government groups.  Legislators are beginning to notice.  University of Florida Professors have also not been kept informed.  Few know that every flush on campus sends nitrates to the springs.

Check with Don Browning founder of Springs Protection . Com for Details.

 Often the important people take 5 or10 minutes to speak about their important agency, some times considerably longer, while the citizens who will speak much later, must sit and wait.  What if we cycled in a citizen between each VIP.  The Delegates would learn a lot, and very likely learn something of import.

Listening to leaders pontificate could be softened somewhat by the refreshing tonic of a citizen speaking between VIP Bookends.  After the Constitutional Officers speak, we should invite to the podium, citizens, the real experts who fund everything.  Just in idea!

 We all know the Citizens are the real experts in the community.

Everyone knows how it goes when important people follow one another to the microphone.  Employees of local organizations like the college, economic experts , elected officials, leaders of all types take a long time speaking, sometimes several hours, promoting their interest.  Yes, it is interesting, even spellbinding, but we are all exhausted when it comes time to hear from the Citizens.  Additionally, all the VIP;s  go to the head of the line only to quickly exit the room when it is time for the people.  How can they learn what is really happening in the community.

By the time citizens are allowed to speak, everyone still in attendance, is exhausted, and time for each presentation is reduced to a minute or two.   Usually, a break is called and everyone who can departs the room.  Citizens are left to listen to each other and several empty chairs at the delegation table.  Hopefully that will change this year.  One humble citizen, environmentalist artist Don Browning has asked to bring the peoples business to the Delegates while the room is full.

How will the news paper and the full delegation know what the people think?   Of course, the answer is, let the people have an opportunity to communicate with their Legislative Delegates. If we had a citizen between each speaker, some of the really important people, the VIP's, would have to wait till the end.

 Springs Protection, the core of sustainability.

How neat would it be if actual people from Marion County could speak about Springs Protection?  Even the no growth people should have a chance to be heard when the community is addressing the Legislative Delegation.   Lets change the order of things.   Now we can speak while  local VIP's are still in the audience and have to listen to our message.    If the officials are servants and they always go first, something is wrong. What if the important servants of the people had to wait their turn?  That would be good it would seem.  Imagine an empty hall, all the citizens have spoken and the VIP's have to wait for an exhausted delegation before they are allowed to speak.

Drainage Wells musg get a filter if allowed to drain into the aquifer.  Sewer Plants must never send a higher Part Per Million count of nitrate into the head waters of the Springs.  1.4 ppm is growing algae in Silver Springs, Gainesville is dumping up to 10 parts per million sewer effluent.  Mounding is driving pollution from 1000 feet to the surface.  We have to stop these people.

Example of a really bad situation that just keeps on polluting.  The 28 drainage wells in Ocala must get a filter on them.  We can't clean up the springs when a quantity the size of the Delegation Meeting Room is deposited into the ground water annually feeding nutrients to the algae attempting to grow in the Springs.  Green at Its Most Prolific.  If you are going to dump storm sewer runoff in the aquifer at least filter it first.  $10,000 per drain will save the springs!

If DEP and FWC are still allowed to hire spokesmen, coordinators, organizers, they should have to hire Marion County Activist first.  Local Businesses first will require Marion County companies to have a chance to win the DEP Spokesman Contract annually given to an Alachua Firm.
Single Selection choices such as the annual  contract for DEP Coordinator, Spokesman has been going to an out of county firm every year.   DEP no longer needs Pandion Systems as their Spokesmen/Community Organizer in Marion County.  When a major state agency picks a private company to be their community organizer, all local and state governmental employees begin to try to buddy up to these private workers giving them a special privileged position.

The same company is picked as the spokesman for the State in Marion county every year.  We could save money by letting the state agencies speak for themselves.  The $16 plus million for Springs Protection education could be saved with a single Educational Session asking Utilities to stop Dumping into the Aquifer.  We know who is polluting.  DEP could round up all the suspects with a single mailing. 

Agencies should be their own spokesmen.

 If DEP does not have enough experts to act as spokesmen and Coordinators then at least they can hire Marion County Coordinators.  The same company seems to receive the state subsidy every year, when that contract to be the spokesman/organizers for DEP in Marion County should be going to a Marion County Firm.  Alachua is the biggest polluter in our zone with the 6 million gallons of nutrient rich sewer effluent going into the aquifer locally.  Why should we go to them with the contract to protect our springs.  The same scientist seem to receive the contract to study the Silver Springs Silver River ecosystem every year.  Unable to find or even be aware of the site pollution points, we could do much better hiring local scientist.  At least the out of county scientist should be guided by local knowledge.  In a single day The Executive Director of Silver Spring Protection Group. Com could show Dr. Knight over 30 specific pollution sites what are delivering the majority of the nutrients to Silver Springs, second only to the Alachua dumping site very near the Dr. Knight's home offices.  We can do better, we are ready for change.

If Alachua County Authorities cared about our springs they would redirect the sewage effluent into irrigation projects instead of polluting the aquifer.  Yes, it is cheaper to dump into the aquifer but in the long run it may be the most expensive activity imaginable.  If they want to recharge the aquifer by injection, they could take 88,000,000 gallons daily of clean clear Silver Springs Water and inject it into the aquifer.  That is the total amount we draw from all wells in Marion County.

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More important than ever, the powerful legislative group representing Marion County will meet to discuss issues likely to come up during the next legislative session.

Key issues:  We have state spending for Springs Protection that is actually helping to keep pollution alive.  $16 million dollars can be directed to putting filters on Dump Pipes draining into the springs leading to the Springs.

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1. Funding of State Government.  Speaker Cretul said it best when he asked all Floridians to do their best to help "Juice Up the Economy".  Local leaders will hopefully speak to the need for economic growth.  Special Interest will continue to limit growth, even though growth is dead and in negative numbers.  See More in the near futrue here.

2. Springs Protection is a success.  We now know that enough nitrogen is being pumped in to the Marion County Springs to fill a banquet room with dried fertilizer.  The Springs are growing algae because the very people who are receiving grants to Educate The People, are the actual polluters.  Sink Holes and Pipes into the ground are polluting the Aquifer and the Springs.  More later.

3. Alachua County will be asked to use the Sewer Effluent they currently pump into the aquifer to irrigate crops.

4. Local State Funded Colleges will be asked to stick to educating students and back away from using state funding for political posturing.  More later.

5. The Marion County Commission will be asked to develop key Legislative Priorities independent of Cities of Marion County.

For too long Cities have elected to charter their own Incorporation Charter and dropped out of the Marion County government system.  Because Cities develop their own ordinances and do not come under the regulation authority of the County Commission the citizens of Marion County are asking the City population to operate under their own ordinances.

A recent example of New Regulation promoted by the City of Ocala on the citizens outside the city limits is the Springs Protection Ordnances.  The City of Ocala has been recently reminded that the best thing they can do to help slow or stop the algae growth in our Springs is to stop dumping into drainage wells and sink holes in the City of Ocala.  More on this later.