Decades after lawmakers decreed that state water managers must determine the potential point of no return for Florida’s waterways, the state’s biggest spring gets its turn.
The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board voted last week to launch the process of establishing minimum flows and levels, or MFLs, for Silver Springs and the Silver River, which flows from the springs.
The process is expected to be completed next year, and when finished, St. Johns’ governors will have identified the threshold at which the springs and the river will suffer significant harm.