This is not a wetland, repeat: this is not a wetland (and should not be calculated as one, either, nor should other retentions made "wet land"). It is a feeder channel of Joe's Creek, which has the telltale film of pollution from runoff visible on the top of the stagnant water. Perhaps if the county did not interfere with the growth of vegetation in this channel, it could be a bit cleaner and would maintain enough soil protection from most erosion so the county would not have to continue to patch the road with toxic concrete (it should be stone, in my opinion). Yet, even if flora is left undisturbed by grass cutting trucks and specially made mowers, contaminants would still be present, absorbed by the vegetation herbivores and insects ingest, other parts of the web of life. How unsightly, that we think to impose on nature in such a horrible way. Here, YOU clean up our mess! We forget that we still make contact with that mess in one way or another. We eat the food, flora and fauna, that grows in it. We bathe in it, we drink it. Earth is in us all, as is everything we put into the Earth. To put it humorously, humans and other Animalia are all sponges, and the Earth is a watery bucket we get thrown into.

Retention of raw sewage and runoff should be facilitated by capable water quality technicians, whose primary job is to achieve totality in removal of non-naturally occuring chemicals, organisms, and our posterior extretions without treatment with further chemicals, then releasing the water. There should be no grandfathering or loophole to abide the guidelines of the Clean Water Act, nor should we amend it yet again. Through Florida's karst topography, water is an integral part of the very foundations we build our houses over. Sinkholes can attribute to these underground rivers and streams; their very presence is responsible in the degradive erosion in the limestone bedrock, giving way beneath human structures. It's why many choose to use groundwater. The water table is quite high. And it tells us a little something about how what seems to be an isolated incident of toxic spill, or a phosphorous or chemical or waste facilities' runoff in a contained area, can radiate out into other areas and bioaccumulate without our even knowing it.