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You can help protect the Florida Panther and other native flora and fauna through litigation and education. The Sierra Club Foundation was created by your Broward Group for this purpose. Your tax-deductible gift will support our conservation work and lawsuits challenging the National Park Service and other agencies that seek to reduce or cause harm to Florida's natural resources.

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The Sierra Club Foundation
In the notes, write "Broward Sierra Group"
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Broward Sierra, P.O. Box 550561, Davie, FL 33355

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CONTACT YOUR U.S. AND FLORIDA REPRESENTATIVES TODAY!

Contact your U.S. and Florida representatives and let them know how you feel about the environmental issues facing us today. To find out who your U.S. and Florida State Senators and Congresspeople are, and to get their contact information, go to this link, and put in your address: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/sections/representatives/myrepresentative.aspx

KEEP GARBAGE JUICE OUT OF FLORIDA'S DRINKING WATER!

A landfill in Central Florida wants permission to inject toxic landfill leachate – often called "garbage juice" – deep underground near the Floridan Aquifer, the source of drinking water for millions of Floridians.

What is leachate?

Leachate is a contaminated liquid that forms when water passes through municipal solid wastes. It can contain:

Heavy metals like lead
Pesticides and other dissolved compounds
High concentrations of pollutants like ammonia, chlorides, and sulfates
Contaminants like PFAS (“forever chemicals”)
Harmful bacteria and pathogens

The Heart of Florida (HOF) Landfill in Sumter County currently has an underground injection exploratory permit. If the exploratory testing is successful, the Heart of Florida Landfill must seek a Class I operation permit before any deep well injection of leachate.

Class I wells must be located far below drinking water sources and in geologic formations capable of safely containing waste. However, Central Florida’s geology is dominated by karst terrain, which includes sinkholes, caves, underground channels, springs, and disappearing streams, this area is not suitable for the deep injection of leachate. These features make it impossible to guarantee that contaminants will remain isolated and not migrate to drinking water supplies. This puts our present and future drinking water at risk.

Take action today to tell state regulators: Protect Florida's drinking water and reject any proposal to inject landfill leachate underground!

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