St. Johns River Advocates Ask Trustees to Protect Public Resources

BRADENTON -- A group of citizens whose lives and quality of lives are at risk are preparing to file suit against the Florida Board of Trustees over a plan by the Koch Brothers/Georgia-Pacific paper mill to start dumping up to 47 million gallons of paper mill waste per day in the river. The Trustees have done nothing to consider, much less halt, this assault on Florida’s submerged lands the Trustees are sworn to protect.A notice letter and copy of the draft Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the Florida Supreme Court was delivered to the Governor and Cabinet members (Board of Trustees - BOT) on Wednesday, giving them 15 days to resolve the issue without litigation. That would mean committing to consideration of the mixing zones as requiring a private easement. The decision could be made at a later point as to whether the Trustees would

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