TALLAHASSEE — Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam continues to push for lawmakers to remember that South Florida isn't the only part of the state where water quality and quantity have become dire issues.
"There is an extraordinary bias to the south at the expense of the springs and Apalachicola Bay," Putnam told reporters in the Capitol this week.
As the Florida Legislature is being asked to consider a $220 million package to redirect water and reduce pollutants flowing from Lake Okeechobee, Putnam wants lawmakers to consider other issues. That includes the challenges of pollutants entering the state's springs, the St. Johns River and Tampa Bay, reducing pollution entering Lake Okeechobee from the north and the declining conditions of Apalachicola Bay in the Panhandle.
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