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Historic Places, Green Spaces
February 14, 2020
Dade Heritage Trust’s Historic Places, Green Spaces program was launched in 2017 and takes students K-12 on half-day field trips to historic sites located in Lummus Park. So far, over 3,000 students and about 200 teachers have participated in the program. The purpose of the program is to engage students with historic, cultural, and recreational
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Winner of the 2018 “Best Paper Award” for Coral Reefs!
February 3, 2020
Coral Reefs, the Journal of the International Coral Reef Society, has awarded the “Best Paper Award 2018” to Ross Cunning, Andrew Baker, and our very own Executive Director & Waterkeeper, Rachel Silverstein! From 22 nominated papers, “Symbiont shuffling linked to differential photochemical dynamics of Symbiodinium in three Caribbean reef corals” by Ross Cunning, Rachel N. Silverstein, and
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What We Accomplished in 2019!
January 27, 2020
Our 2019 numbers are in, and they are certainly something to boast about! This last year was a year of growth for Miami Waterkeeper across all fronts of our organization. Without sharing too much, we want to showcase some of our greatest successes over the past year. Junior Ambassadors Community education and outreach work was
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Miami Back Bay Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study
January 9, 2020
For decades the Army Corps of Engineers – the primary civil and environmental engineering arm of the United States government – has been carrying out projects to protect Miami-Dade County and its shoreline from the impacts of floods, storms, and erosion. These projects have typically taken the form of things like beach nourishment, seawalls, and
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A Big Thank You to Periosolutions!
December 20, 2019
Miami Waterkeeper is so thankful to be the organization chosen for an annual fundraiser put on by Periosolutions and their associated study club of dental offices. Each year they choose an organization to fundraise for, and this year they had the environment in mind! Raising over $1,500, they have shown their commitment to helping us
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Miami Waterkeeper Provides Supplemental Comments to FDEP Turkey Point NPDES Permit
December 11, 2019
Miami Waterkeeper and the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) jointly provided supplemental technical comments on the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (FDEP) Draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit for Turkey Point. These comments were submitted in addition to the comments made in May 2019. Turkey Point Point Power Plant (Photo Credit: Sun-Sentinel) Earlier this
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Another Great Year of Partnership with HSBC!
December 10, 2019
For the second year in a row, Miami Waterkeeper and HSBC Bank have been brought together through a partnership with Waterkeeper Alliance to help fulfill the mission of keeping critical local waterways clean and protected. HSBC has had a long-standing commitment to the issue of water. On December 3, 2019, the HSBC branch in Miami joined forces with us
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From January to June, 1.5 million gallons of sewage spilled in Miami Dade County
December 5, 2019
Under Miami Dade County Water and Sewer Department’s federally-mandated Consent Decree agreement with the U.S. EPA and Florida Department of Environmental Protection, they are required to issue periodic status reports. The 11th status report was recently released and covers the period of January 1, 2019, to June 30, 2019. During this period, 54 sanitary sewer
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FPL Receives License to Operate Nuclear Reactors for Unprecedented 80 years despite Miami Waterkeeper’s legal challenge
December 5, 2019
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission rubberstamped FPL’s application for Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant’s subsequent license renewal today. Miami Waterkeeper and co-plaintiffs, Friends of the Earth and Natural Resources Defense Council, initiated a legal challenge on this proposed license renewal in August 2018. The matter is still on appeal before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. However, the
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Army Corps finds No Significant Impact in PortMiami Channel Maintenance Dredging. We Disagree.
December 4, 2019
Earlier this summer, the Army Corps of Engineers announced they would be undertaking some routine maintenance dredging in the PortMiami shipping channel. This maintenance dredging is anticipated to last 45 days and would include dredging 24 hours a day. Miami Waterkeeper believes that this activity would produce a significant volume of sediment that could adversely
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Miami Waterkeeper and Partners Submit Comments on Army Corps Back Bay Study
December 2, 2019
Matheson Hammock Park experiencing continued inundation (2019) Miami Waterkeeper, in collaboration with Catalyst Miami and the Miami Foundation, recently provided comments to the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) on the Miami-Dade County “Back Bay” Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study. The study, designed to achieve improved resiliency from storm surge, targets flood-prone areas of Miami such as
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Waterkeepers Florida Provides Final Comments to FDEP for Triennial Review of Water Quality Standards
December 2, 2019
Miami Waterkeeper, as part of Waterkeepers Florida, jointly provided final comments to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) on the proposed revisions to Florida’s surface water quality standards. The proposed revisions included changes to the turbidity criterion, in all waters as well as in areas where coastal construction projects like dredging may affect corals
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