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Advocacy Priorities
Learn more about St. Johns Riverkeeper’s advocacy priorities and ways you can get involved with our efforts to protect the St. Johns River.
Report an Issue
See an issue and not sure how/where to report it? Check out our report page for information on alerting the right people and agencies when you see anything from illegal dumping to an algal bloom.
River-Friendly Tips
We’ve put together a list of ways you can make small changes in your everyday life, right now, to be more river-friendly at home.
Recent Blog Posts
Protect Your River – Stop the Pipeline
January 26, 2011: We have launched a Cleaner GP awareness campaign to encourage Georgia-Pacific (GP) to abandon its plans to build a pipeline to the St. Johns River and to pursue alternative solutions to its wastewater pollution problems. As part of the the...
Numeric Nutrient Standards
The past several year have been tough for our St. Johns River. The river has suffered from massive fish kills, widespread algal blooms, mysterious foam and an unprecedented number of dolphin deaths. While scientists suspect that the fish kills and foam were related to...
RIVERKEEPER launches the Get Your Feet Wet iPhone app
iPhone App Screens from the App StoreThe "Get your Feet Wet, iPhone edition" guidebook app is a valuable resource that allows users to explore and learn about the St. Johns River from Palatka to the Atlantic Ocean with the convenience of their phone. App...
Don't Be Distracted, Pollution Is Real
Rice Creek Algal Bloom - Photo by Karen Ahlers As we have mentioned in previous posts, scientists still have not definitively determined the cause of the mysterious foam and the massive fish kills on the St. Johns River but do suspect a link to algal blooms. While it...
Dilution is NOT a Solution to Pollution
The Georgia-Pacific (GP) paper mill in Palatka is unable to meet water quality standards in Rice Creek (a tributary of the St. Johns) where it currently discharges its wastewater. So, what is the GP solution to this problem? They plan to employ the archaic...