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RESOLUTION 70-42
® WHEREAS, the President's Council on Environmental Quality
proposes to select one American watershed to demonstrate the
® possibilities of enhancing its water quality properties, and
WHEREAS, the St. Johns River is unique in the world, combining
as it does the great biological productivity of a sub -tropical climate with
an unusual topographic relief which has enabled development of a
remarkable blending of fresh water, estuarine and marine fishes and
other aquatic species having imense food and recreational value, and
WHEREAS, the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
has background data, in the form of published reports and records which
span a period of more than twenty years, dating from 1947 to the present,
which vividly show the tremendous value of its renewable natural fishery
resources and which trace the alarming rate of its rapidly accelerating
decline, and
WHEREAS, sources of its pollution have been defined, notably
by the Florida Department of Air and Water Pollution Control, and steps
are being taken by that department, the Florida Game and Fresh Water
Fish Commission, local public bodies, and others to improve present
conditions, and
WHEREAS, without additional measures beyond the capabilities
of state and local governments these efforts will almost certainly fail to
fully achieve the desired goals, and
WHEREAS, a vigorous clean-up program undertaken through the
cooperative effort of federal, state and local governments will be of
incalculable benefit to our nation, its food supply, to recreation, and to
our posterity,
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NOW, 'THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County
• = Commissioners of Indian River County, sitting in official session in Vero
Beach, Florida, this 7th day of October, 1970, does herewith urge the
Aselection of the St. Johns River by the President's Council on Environ-
mental Quality for concerted treatment to serve as a shining national
example of water quality enhancement and restoration of its unique
properties.
DONE AND RESOLVED at Vero Beach, Florida, this 7th day of
October, 1970.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY
By Jack U. Dritenbas _
Chairman
The Board appointed James L. Hair as Chairman of the
Fisliing Advisory Committee of Indian River County.
On Motion of Commissioner Massey, second of Commissioner
McCullers, the following Resolution was unanimously adopted:
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