Harry,

This has NOTHING to do with hushpuppies,

I live on Julington Creek, and am a member of the local USCG Auxiliary.
I have been very concerned with the St. Johns River's health, even
before there was such a thing as a newsgroup.

The NAS superfund site was cleaned up during the Regan administration.

According to Dr. Carole DeMort, Federal Marine Biologist for the local
area Navy and Chairperson of University of North Florida's Marine
Biology Department, there are no such plans to exempt the military from
any environmental standards.

In fact, both Naval Air Station, and Mayport Naval Station have
installed a state of the art oil spill containment facilities and rapid
response units attached to the fire departments on bases.

The Jacksonville Fire Department also has a HAZMAT rapid response unit
on the 4 fireboats, and the local Coast Guard has a "2 million gallon
per hour slick guzzler" and 6000' of containment boom.

In my opinion, the military has done a faithful job of insuring site
cleanups and addressing containment issues.

Our worst (superfund) pollution problem is from the Hipps road landfill,
which was recently designated as a superfund site and is scheduled to be
delt with this spring.

The worst problem with the St. Johns is fertilizer runoff (storm water)
from all the privately owned lawns and farms in the Palatka & Green Cove
Springs area.

The river is much cleaner then it was even ten years ago, but we still
have a long way to go in efforts to return it to the pristine waterway
it was in the early 1800's. (That's when my family move to "Cowford")

See my website for a discussion of the river's springs and health.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~aartworks

Regards,
Capt. Frank

AND NOW BACK TO HUSHPUPIES!! YUM!

Harry Krause wrote:
Doug Kanter wrote:

"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 20:04:29 GMT, "Doug Kanter"



wrote:


"UglyDan®©T" wrote in message
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Fresh water fishing in Puerto Rico?? UD

Good info on the lakes:
http://www.rainforestsafari.com/Fishing.html



...and...good info on why to be really careful around fresh water lakes

down

the
http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact115.html


Never went in the water! Now I'm glad!!!

Thanks for the URL's, brought back some nice memories. I was 8-11 years

old when

my dad was in the Air Force down there.

John
On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD

Yeah....bladder cancer from a dip in a cool lake! I don't know if I'd take
little kids fishing there, unless there was a second adult to make sure
their hands never went near their mouths until they'd washed.



Now, now, Doug...it isn't nice to force reality into the picture here.

While living in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida, some years ago,
I was horrified by the prospect of the military's "superfund" sites
adjacent to heavily populated areas. One of them, a Naval Air Station,
was right on the St. Johns River, a waterway popular for all sorts of
recreation, including fishing and boating.

Isn't the Bush Administration planning to exempt the military from
anti-pollution regs? Won't that have a nice impact on our waterways and
fisheries?