Will Building On WalMart Site Cause Environmental Damage?
Dear Mr Watson, I am writing this email as a follow up on an email exchange that I had with Mayor Calderwood. I have been writing to her and she has been cc to you since last year about the cave systems that flows under the land that Wal Mart intends to place their super center on. The cave is a spring cave system that drains all of the run off water from Mill Creek and moves this water under that land and eventually to Hornsby Spring. Please see http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051126/LOCAL/211260311/1078/news this article was in the Gainesville Sun newspaper last week. My last communication from Mayor Calderwood she pointed out to me that I needed to let experts determine if the cave will be damaged by construction or collapse and the effects of this on the cave and the area. I have contacted Suwannee River Water Management and they tell me that neither they nor WalMart are looking into this as the laws only require that study be done to a depth of 50 feet. No
