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Letters to the EditorsSwiftmud sells water; we ration it
© St. Petersburg Times, Editor: I received a postcard recently from the Southwest Florida Water Management District informing me that a business headed by an influential Miami attorney has been given permission to remove and bottle a quarter-of-a-million gallons a day from the Three Sisters Springs property. This is the same water that has been rationed due to the recent drought. If residents and taxpayers cannot use the water freely, and if the county continues to ration the water, how can Swiftmud sanction removal of millions of gallons of water to be sold commercially? Preventing this water from flowing naturally into our waterways will increase salinity and lower the water temperature, destroying the natural habitat of our wildlife. Where are our elected representatives? Where are all the government agencies? Aren't they supposed to protect our natural resources? How and why did this situation get this far? Interesting questions. Let's demand answers.
State Road 44 E, U.S. 41 needs a no-left-turn signEditor: The intersection of State Road 44 E and U.S. 41 is accident-prone because motorists who are eastbound on State Road 44 E are allowed to make a left turn at that intersection to go north on U.S. 41. They fail to yield to traffic in the right-turn lane onto U.S. 41 from westbound State Road 44 E, and have the "right of way." I would be willing to bet a majority of the reported accidents were: "Disregarding Official Sign" (Yield) and "Inattentive Driving" (rear-end collisions caused by back-up of traffic on eastbound State Road 44 E because of left turners). Solution: No left turn from this intersection. There are two intersections that left turns could be made to access U.S. 41 prior to the U.S. 41 and State Road 44 E intersection to alleviate this problem.
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