Orange Soil and Water Conservation District

Save or Canopies

Utility Consolidation for Canopy and Property Preservation We have had two choices for utility lines, or a mixture of both. Ov...

Caution. Boil water alert

Residents in the highlighted yellow area in the picture below are currently experiencing a precautionary boil water advisory.

Heating water to a rolling boil for at least 1 minute is recommended for all water used in drinking, cooking, brushing teeth or washing dishes.

Residents will receive a doorhanger when the precautionary boil water advisory is no longer in effect.

Reducing your use of plastics can help your health. Plastics enter the waterways and directly enter your body. Both means of consuming microplastics is dangerous to humans and other animals.

UNM Researchers Find Microplastics in Canine and Human Testicular Tissue University of New Mexico researchers have detected significant concentrations of microplastics in the testicular tissue of both humans and dogs, adding to growing concern about their possible effect on human reproductive health.

Are you on Nextdoor? We have joined.
Watch for information there when we have releases.

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You can help reduce the waste stream gap.
Composting, participating in surprise end of the meal or groceries apps, cloth shopping bags, bar shampoo and conditioners instead of bottles, natural clothes detergent sheets in paper envelopes not plastic bottles.
There are so many methods to reducing your impact on the waste stream without feeling the impact.

Remember to get the Ps and the Ns OUT! starting June 1.

Read the details here.

Starting June 1st, Orange County’s summer blackout period begins. Protecting our local waterways means avoiding nitrogen- and phosphorus-based fertilizers until fall. Check out the graphic below for the quick facts on what’s allowed, what’s not, and how to keep your lawn green while keeping our waters clean!

Growing animals and plants depend on the weather.
This app will give you include leg up on many factors needed to take care of your flora and fauna no matter how few or many.

For accurate weather near your home, Business, school, or athletic area, select the nearest professional weather station to the location. We have numerous ones around the Orange Soil and Water Conservation District. For the entire list go to HTTP://Orange.WeatherSTEM.com
Temperatures and the effect on the body are covered. Wet Bulb Temperatures and what concern you should have for it listed with the temperature to take off equipment, break for 20 minutes of the hour, and to not workout or play at all.
Do you have respiratory conditions? COPD or asthma? There's a place in the app for that. 🙂 Frizzy hair?
Do you golf? Want to prevent skin cancer?
The most northwest location in Apopka, http://orange.weatherstem.com/nwapopka
Southern is Florida Mall
http://orange.weatherstem.com/fswnfloridamall
Southeast is Christmas
http://orange.weatherstem.com/christmas
Southwest on Windermere Preparatory School
http://orange.weatherstem.com/windermereprep
North in Lockhart
http://orange.weatherstem.com/fswnlockhart
but others are in the link above.
WeatherSTEM offers a contract for STEM curriculum for schools and businesses. I taught my science students weather science by listening by listening to the NOAA weather station together over speakerphones from their hospital beds and homes when I taught Orange County Public Schools Hospital/Homebound.

Except for vehicle parts and tires, America is doing better with litter. This vital for soil and water conservation.

The reclamation pond that collapsed into the aquifer prior to completion.

Apopka extends Golden Gem project deadline again as costs rise and scrutiny intensifies | The Apopka Voice - The Apopka Voice The Apopka City Commission approved a seventh amendment extending the deadline tied to the city’s long-running agreement with the St. Johns River Water Management District for the Golden Gem Road property. The extension keeps alive plans for a reclaimed water storage and aquifer recharge enhanceme...