As booming population growth along Central Florida’s Interstate 4 corridor places unprecedented demand on traditional freshwater supplies, local leaders are turning to deep-aquifer innovation. Construction is underway on the Southeast Lower Floridan Aquifer Water Production Facility, noted as a critical regional infrastructure project designed to deliver safe drinking water to Polk County communities while protecting local lakes and ecosystems. That's the plan being offered....Why then is so much being pumped away from the very communities that are surrounding the source?? Let's examine the project further.... 🏗️ Project Overview & Infrastructure Located near Lake Walk-in-Water (Lake Weohyakapka) south of Lake Wales, the project taps into the Lower Floridan Aquifer (LFA) at depths between 1,500 and 2,000 feet. Unlike the shallow Upper Floridan Aquifer, this deeper layer contains brackish water that requires advanced reverse osmosis (RO) desalination. Key components of the...
Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills region of the Santa Monica California has always been a haven for the Rich and famous. This upscale neighborhood has seen many a successful artist or entrepreneur come and go. Current residents today living in Laurel Canyon include actors George Clooney and Chris Evans as well as famous musicians like Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows and Mark Mothersbaugh from the band Devo among others. Other famous residents have come and gone like Jennifer Aniston, Mick Jagger and Heath Ledger. But back in late 1940s, the neighborhood was a mix of old Hollywood glamour and the newly emerging avant-garde counter-culture of new Hollywood. It was also well known to the local police that parties being thrown in the neighborhood usually included drug use. A police raid one night would change the lives and directions of what were then some of the up and coming stars of Hollywood film at the time. One star would go on to become a legend on the sc...