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Lake County water alliance springs a leak. News 13 Orlando  
News 13  

Springing a leak

Water alliance not flowing, taking separate streams

For the last several years, an alliance existed between Lake County and each of the cities. But it's a water alliance that sprang a leak in recent weeks. The county is now the latest organization to bow out. (News 13 Orlando)
ALSO:
• EDITORIAL: Who should manage our water use?
• Lake cities debating the merit of a county water alliance

One of the more than 200 monitoring stations used in the Everglades Depth Information Network, or EDEN. UF NEWS  
UF  

Getting it right

New water-depth evaluation to aid Everglades research

When scientists discuss Everglades restoration, one phrase pops up again and again — "getting the water right." In March 2005, things got easier. A modeling system called the Everglades Depth Estimation Network, or EDEN, went online. The system provides daily estimates of water depth and other information for most of the Everglades. Now, a UF study verifies that EDEN's estimates are accurate. (UF News)

Researchers have plunged into the murky Hillsborough River to survey remnants of the Scottish Chief, a Civil War-era blockade runner. TAMPA TRIBUNE video  
Tribune  

Discovering the past

Divers survey wreckage of Civil War-era boat in Tampa

Two bright yellow markers bobbing in the Hillsborough River are tethered to the bottom at precise locations. They float above what may be Tampa's most significant submerged historical find: the Scottish Chief, a Civil War-era wooden steamship. (Tampa Tribune)   SEARCHING FOR WRECKAGE

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“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
— Richard Bach

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Greening Florida's Future
Florida DEP

DEP's green tip contest
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has kicked off its first green tip contest in preparation for National Pollution Prevention Week 2009, Sept. 21–27. Participants can submit their favorite green tip to DEP for a chance to win a free green cleaning kit and have their tip featured on the department's redesigned green Web site. Entries must be no more than 200 words. Deadline is Oct. 31; a winner will be announced Nov. 6.
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Fred Willard, 70; Frankie Avalon, 69; Ryne Sandberg, 50; James Gandolfini, 48; Aisha Tyler, 39; Jada Pinkett Smith, 38; Alison Lohman, 30.

On this Day in 1975
Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

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