Gotten
Sick Surfing?
Rainy Season is Coming!
This means more run off than normal and higher bacterial readings.
If you surf
and get any type of infection [i.e. stomach, throat, ear,
eye or nose[ please
contact your doctor, your local Surfrider chapter [we're at 561-844-7825],
and the Palm Beach County Health Department [561-274-3187].
This data will help us maintain the generally GOOD water quality
that we normally
have. Remember, the only way to keepp your waves and beaches clean is to speak up!
VOLUNTEERS
WANTED!
Protect Your Local
Beach!
FOR BEACHSCAPE MAPPING FOR YOUR
LOCAL SURF BREAK
Beaches Desperately Need To Be Mapped Before & After Hurricane
Swells
| Lake Worth Pier |
Charley's Crab |
| Clarke's Beach |
Sunset-Dunbar |
| Reef Road |
Pump House |
| Ocean Reef Park |
Pierless |
| Juno Pier-Marcinski |
Corners |
| Carlin Park-Civic Center |
Jupiter Inlet |
| Jupiter Island |
Blowing Rocks |
Once it's mapped, it goes into our database and becomes
a documented resource, to preserve and protect!
EARN COMMUNITY SERVICE
HOURS FOR VOLUNTERERING!
Attention
Volunteers
2002 Beachscape monitoring has been done from Hillsboro
Inlet ro Boynton Inlet.
We need Beachscape mappings from Boynton Inlet north to
Blowing Rocks.
Please Download this form,
complete it and send it to:
Surfrider Foundation 1200 Morse Blvd., Singer Island FL
33404
PALM BEACH
CHAPTER JOINS
LOXAHATCHEE RIVER FIGHT
SFWMD chided for catering to development interests
Surfrider Foundation, along with a room full of individuals
and activists representing
Jupiter Farms Environmental Council, Friends of Johnathan
Dickinson Park, and the
Sierra Club, meet with the board of Governorsof the South
Florida Water Management
District at a workshop at theirWest Palm Beach District Headquarters,
on May 8, 2002.
"The only thing that you should take credit for is being here
during the 2two 100 year
storm events during the last ten years, and keeping fresh
water to a trickle other than that,"
said Terry Gibson, writer for Florida Sportsman, and Surfer
Magazine.
The Loxahatchee River is a federally designated wild and scenic
river, and flows directly
out the Jupiter Inlet, one of Florida's best and most popular
surf breaks. If the river
dies, nothing but filthy, polluted runoff will flow into the
surf zone, laden with pesticides,
sewage, and urban waste. To insure the health of this magnificent
ecosystem, CLEAN, FREASH
water MUST be allowed to flow naturally.
The SFWMD plan is to allow 35 MFL (minimum flow level) during
dry seaso. Historically,
it's been documented at 200 MFL, (in 1958 for example). Local
scientists argue that
65 to 75 is the MINIMUM needed to restore and enhance the
river to its natural state.
So far, over three miles of the river has been taken over
by sakt water intrusion, killing
off cypress tress (some over 500 years old). The federal designation
of this section of
the river provides a mandate for a FREE FLOWING RIVER along
this stretch. The SFQMD
has had 17 years to meet the requirements of this Federal
mandate, and so far all they
have managed to do is destroy at least three miles of this
"scenic and wild river".
The Loxahatchee also flows out the inlet providing one of
the best snook hatcheries
in the state. To find out more about this issue, contact Patrick
Hayes at the Jupiter
Outdoor Center - 632-6397. To voice your opinion, email us
at
aquadelic2003@yahoo.com.
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