Sink Holes - Page 2

One of the biggest uses of potable water in FL happens during a cold winter when the citrus and berry growers spray their crops to try to prevent freeze damage. I don't think they are permitted to use reclaimed water on crops intended for human consumption. 3 years ago we had a record cold winter; there seemed to be a lot more sinkholes that spring than in the past. There is actually not a lot of construction going on here in Tampa right now. I see a lot more abandoned developments and malls than I see active new construction.  The last time I was to the Everglades, there was some development going on in Everglade City, but the rest of that area remains relatively undeveloped as does most of central FL. Not sure what Mindhunter sees going on in her area, she's south of Tampa.

They don't need to be actively draining and building more.  They've drained enough.  Runoff goes into sewer drains and into oceans.  It doesn't sit in wetlands and perculate and clean itself as it sifts thru soil and maintain the aquifers and watertables.  With the increase in farming, like you mentioned irrigation and preventing freezing and the increase in the number of people, + time that passes, these water tables keep dropping. Given enough time, bad stuff happens.

Clean water,
where does one find clean water these days in the Continental US of A?

Fracting will help don't ya know too.

Tell that to the Koch Brothers, the country's biggest polluters,  and their pocket politicians, Moons.  I can pretty much guarantee you that they don't drink polluted water or live where they and their families inhale poison with every breath.

Don't worry, they just bought our politicians too and are going to open a mine.  Not that mining is a real bother for me, but they also wrote their own new mining bill that just passed.  They redefined what all constitutes pollution and shifted all liability and cost from the company, to the tax payers and the idiots in this state fell for it.  Too stupid to realize what was happening because all they could see was D's and R's.  Can't wait for that bill to come in.  They'll be long gone and rich, and we'll be stuck with one gigantic mess.

That's more than depressing.

The depressing part is even if we stopped it all now, it would take generations to clean it up, some of it can't be cleaned up.
I'm not trying to be negetive on purpose, this is a fact and none can escape it.
You wonder why I always say burn it all down, now you know.

and where I live it's rather republican backing and those against the mining bill were just liberal tree huggers that needed to get out of the way.  Never mind that hundreds of thousands of them live next to a river that even as recently as the 1980's had no ecosystem, no fish, no nothing because it was just dead until the "tree huggers" got some things changed.  There are fish, birds, etc now.  maybe they've been eating too many of them and it's affecting their cognitive ability 

I can't remember which, but perhaps it was Ruby Falls Cave that was discovered because a hunter fell into it from a sink hole.
I remember the guide showing everyone the ceiling that had been patched over.
Seemed like at least an eighty foot drop.