water management vs cavedivers (please need info)

[Neptuno]

Well, here is a BIG thing going on in the background in some areas where some people see caves as a source of water for hotels, and are discussing and pushing hard to forbid cavediving with the BS that is a protected area....

I'd love, very much, to have information about the laws and the way this is managed in florida, it is really important for us right now, and if the source is an official source is even better.

we need to show evidence that cavediving is not evil
how parks manage the water?, how water companies manage cavediving?, how everything works together in FL???

This is of course all going on in our back and quietly, but I need to collect that info to show up and present that information to government people before they act in the way the intere$$ted people want them to do.

thanks a lot, all info would be wellcome

[OFG-1]

You may want to start by changing your avatar. Just sayin.

[Neptuno]

it is an old avatar in the CDF, can't change it

[sskasser]

it is an old avatar in the CDF, can't change it

There's an option under "Forum Actions/Edit Profile" to select/upload a new avatar.

[FW]

There's an option under "Forum Actions/Edit Profile" to select/upload a new avatar.

I think he means it is custom made for him, and everyone recognizes it

[allen]

Cave diving has a greater impact on tourism than you would expect from the number of cave divers. I go to Mexico because I have a love affair with Sac Actun. My wife, who doesn't dive at all, stays at the hotel, eats, drinks, visits Maya ruins, and shops for jewelry. Sometimes my daughters also stay at the hotel. Thus one cave diver brings in ~3 tourists. If I ever go to the Dominican Republic, it will be to cave dive. My wife would certainly go with me.

[Taucher-Tom]

We (German Red Cross Water Rescue Service) got permission to dive in different "Maare" here in Germany. These water filled craters of still active vulcanoes are used as reservoir of drinking water for more than 100.000 people. We had to get an official permission from the local water management authorities as diving is usually forbidden there not because of water pollution but safety reasons.

On the other hand it´s strictly forbidden to swim there because of pollution by sun tan and other fluids...


Not sure if this helps as I can´t give you any written information. The "Wasserhaushaltsgesetz" is a very rigid law which regulates everything concerning usage of water here in Germany, but there of course are no statements concerning scuba diving at all.

[FW]

Probably the best approach would be to offer to help manage the aquifer (water supply). Some cave divers in the US provide valuable data about quality of the water in the aquifer, as well as maps and other data needed to properly manage the water supply.

[Neptuno]

all that is being done already, but the people behind still trying to stop divers, the research is ok, but how do they keep the caves open to divers in FL?? there is always big interest in the water.
Is there any agreement of any kind or something?, they say we kinda "contaminate" the water reserve, but they don't care about the swimmers with a full bottle of sunblock spread in their bodies.

How is that kind of situations managed by NSS-CDS and NACD?? have to be some background that could help us.

[SuPrBuGmAn]

You may want to look somewhere else, rather than FL.

SRWMD is all about dolling out water permits it seems :P



Want to suck the aquiffer dry during a severe drought? No problem!