Chapter 10 Win: DEO says Amendment in compliance
The Department of Economic Opportunity has issued a Final Order finding the Amendment to Chapter 10 of the Martin County Comprehensive Plan to be “in compliance” with state law. Entry of the Final...
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Guest Column: Maggy Hurchalla: Restoration of septic rules a gift for our...
By Maggy Hurchalla TC Palm.com January 7, 2016 Tallahassee gave Martin County waterways a late Christmas present when a state planning agency issued a final order finding the county’s amendments to the...
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Point of view: Hold elected officials accountable when it comes to Everglades...
By Maggy Hurchalla, palmbeachpost.com Posted: 4:20 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 In the 1990s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was asked to save the Everglades. They put up a banner in the...
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Lake Point case enters critical phase: Trial set for September
As the Lake Point case enters a new and critical phase, the Martin County legal team has been fortified with a top-ranked statewide law firm, De La Parte & Gilbert, P.A., led by Attorney Ed De La...
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Guest Column: More Lake Okeechobee water is moving south — but our work isn’t...
from Maggy Hurchalla, via tcpalm.com Since the summer of 2013 we’ve been asking all the powers that be to buy the land and send the water south. Last week Gov. Rick Scott asked the Army Corps of...
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Maggy Hurchalla: Don’t dismiss dangers of algae in our waterways
By Maggy Hurchalla Guest Column for TC Palm June 27, 2016 No one wants to be Chicken Little. The sky wasn’t falling. The silly bird panicked over a little acorn. But the sky is falling on Lake...
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Martin County being asked to ease environmental protections on wetlands
By Lidia Dinkova December 23, 2016 TC Palm MARTIN COUNTY — The county has been asked to loosen its environmental protections to allow developers to build on some smaller wetlands. Land-planner Don...
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Give Sen. Negron’s plan a chance
By Maggy Hurchalla December 29, 2016 Florida Today A statewide campaign to discredit Sen. Joe Negron’s effort to “Buy the land to send the water south” is now underway. Opponents quote U.S. Sugar’s...
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Guest column: Are ‘little’ wetlands worth saving? [Excerpt]
By Maggy Hurchalla February 22, 2017 TC Palm . . . Recently, the chairman of the Martin County Commission and the head of the Economic Council of Martin County joined Big Sugar in opposing Senate...
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Why We Need A Comp Plan by Maggy Hurchalla
Former Martin County Commissioner Maggy Hurchalla’s speech from the Martin County Conservation Alliance Forum April 22, 2017 WHY WE NEED A COMP PLAN Martin County is notorious for being different. We...
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