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- Tags: pesticides
Oral History of Bobby Martin
Tags: alligators; American eels; Archie Smith; Bill Belleville; Black Hammock Fish Camp; boating the line; Bobby Martin; Camay soaps; catfish; catfish farming; catfish farms; catfishing; Cecil Dile; Clarence Coir; commercial fishermen; commercial fishing; Daniel Motta; Dog Track Road; eel pots; eeling; electrolysis action; fish; fish traps; fishers; fishing; fishing empty hooks; game wardens; gators; hoop nets; hyacinths; jump lining; Lake Harney; Lake Jesup; Lake Monroe; Longwood; monkey fishing; monkey machines; Mullet Lake Park; Museum of Seminole County History; oxidation; pesticides; poaching; pollution; Sanford; Sanford Boat Works & Marina; ship stores; shotgun houses; shrimp; shrimp trawls; shrimping; skip jacks; snails; SR 17-92; St. Johns River; State Road 17-92; stay lining; stingrays; Tampa; trot lines; Tuskawilla Road; Vietnam War; Waits' Fish House; Woodruff Creek
Profile of Bottom Completed: L. Apopka Study Continues
Tags: agricultural pollution; C. W. Sheffield; Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, FWPCA; fish cribs; Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission; hyacinths; Lake Apopka; Mick Sheffield; Mickey Sheffield; Orange County Commission; Orange County Commissioners; pesticides; sewage treatment; sonar; Thomas Furman; water quality
Letter from Harold L. Moody to J. W. Woods (June 6, 1967)
Letter from John W. Woods to Harold L. Moody (June 23, 1967)
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (March 25 to 30, 1968)
Tags: agricultural pollution; algae; Apopka-Beauclair Canal; aquatic vegetation; C. W. Sheffield; Claude R. Kirk, Jr.; Claude Roy Kirk, Jr.; dikes; fish kills; Fisherman's Paradise Fish Camp; Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission; Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission; hyacinths; John Lundquist; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Technical Committee; Mick Sheffield; Mickey Sheffield; nutrient removal; Orange County Water Conservation Department; pesticides; Vincent D. Patton; water quality
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (May 6 to 10, 1968)
Tags: A. W. Sinclair, Jimmie Sinclair; agricultural pollution; ammonia; Arthur W. Sinclair; C. W. Sheffield; Cliff R. Freeman; Ed Barth; Federal Air and Water Pollution Control Commission; Federal Water Pollution Control Administration; Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission; Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission; Florida State Turnpike Authority; FWPCA; John D. Eye; John Pfeffer; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Technical Committee; Leesburg Chamber of Commerce; Mick Sheffield; Mickey Sheffield; Nat Reed; Nathaniel Reed; nitrate; nutrient removal; Paul E. Pickett; pesticides; phosphate; Purdue Industrial Waste Conference; R. Eliasson; Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center; Robert Elrod; Sanford Padgett; Stanford University; Turkey Lake; UC; UI; University of Cincinnati; University of Illinois; Vincent D. Patton; water quality
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (May 13 to 17, 1968)
Tags: A. W. Sinclair, Jimmie Sinclair; agricultural pollution; Arthur W. Sinclair; Bob Webb; C. W. Sheffield; Cliff R. Freeman; fish camps; fish kills; Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission; Florida Engineering Society; Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission; Florida State Board of Health; FSBH; Gordon Folke; John Lunquist; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Technical Committee; Mick Sheffield; Mickey Sheffield; nutrient removal; Orange Fishing Lodge; Paul E. Pickett; pesticides; Robert Elrod; Sanford Padgett; sewage treatment plants; UF; University of Florida; Vincent D. Patton; water quality
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (June 17 to 21, 1968)
Tags: A. W. Sinclair, Jimmie Sinclair; agricultural pollution; algae; aquatic vegetation; Arthur W. Sinclair; C. W. Sheffield; Cliff R. Freeman; dredging; Florida State Board of Health; FSBH; Hyacinth Control Society; hyacinths; Kenneth A. Plante; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Technical Committee; Mick Sheffield; Mickey Sheffield; nutrient removal; Orange County Water Department; Paul E. Pickett; pesticides; Ray Kaleel; Robert Elrod; Sanford Padgett; sewage treatment plants; silts; Vincent D. Patton; water quality
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (June 24 to 28, 1968)
Tags: A. W. Sinclair, Jimmie Sinclair; agricultural pollution; algae; aquatic vegetation; Arch Hodges; Arthur W. Sinclair; C. W. Sheffield; Cliff R. Freeman; East Central Florida Regional Planning Council; Federal Water Pollution Control Administration; Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission; FWPCA; Gordon Wagner; Hooper Farms Road; Hugh Putnam; hyacinths; hydrilla; John White; Kenneth A. Plante; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Technical Committee; Lake Virginia; Mick Sheffield; Mickey Sheffield; nutrient removal; Orange County Water Conservation Department; Paul E. Pickett; pesticides; Ray Kaleel; Robert Elrod; Sanford Padgett; Vincent D. Patton; water quality; Winter Park Lakes and Waterways Board; Zellwood Drainage District
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (July 15 to 19, 1968)
Tags: A. W. Sinclair, Jimmie Sinclair; agricultural pollution; algae; aquatic vegetation; Arthur W. Sinclair; C. W. Sheffield; Cliff R. Freeman; hyacinths; Kenneth A. Plante; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Technical Committee; Mick Sheffield; Mickey Sheffield; nutrient removal; Paul E. Pickett; pesticides; Robert Elrod; Robert O'Brien; Rollins College; Sanford Padgett; UF; University of Florida; Vincent D. Patton; water quality
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (August 26 to 30, 1968)
Tags: A. W. Sinclair, Jimmie Sinclair; agricultural pollution; algae; aquatic vegetation; Arthur W. Sinclair; C. W. Sheffield; Cliff R. Freeman; Federal Water Pollution Control Administration; FWPCA; hyacinths; Kenneth A. Plante; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Technical Committee; Mick Sheffield; Mickey Sheffield; nutrient removal; Paul E. Pickett; pesticides; Robert Elrod; Sanford Padgett; Vincent D. Patton; water quality
Leesburg Committee Conclusions
Tags: agricultural pollution; algae; aquatic vegetation; C. W. Sheffield; citrus processing industry; Claude Kirk; Claude R. Kirk, Jr.; East Central Florida Regional Planning Council; Federal Water Pollution Control Administration; fish meal; Florida Air & Water Pollution Control Commission; Florida Department of Agriculture; Florida Development Commission; Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission; Florida Park Commission; Florida State Board of Health; FSBH; FWPCA; Gourd Neck Spring; hyacinths; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Technical Committee; levees; Mick Sheffield; Mickey Sheffield; nutrient removal; Ocklawaha River Basin Planning Grant; Orange County Board of County Commissioners; Orange County Water Conservation Department; pesticides; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; water quality; Winter Garden Citrus Products Cooperative
Memorandum from the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission to the Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission (June 13, 1968)
Tags: \ improved breams; agricultural pollution; algae; American Fisheries Society; American gizzard shads; aquatic vegetation; Beauclair; black crappies; bluegills; cherry gills; chinquapins; citrus processing industry; Eustis; fish camps; fish kills; fish meal; Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission; Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission; garfish; Georgia breams; green algae; hyacinths; Lake Apopka; Lake Carlton; Lake Dora; Lake Eustis; Lake Griffin; Lake Harris; lakes; largemouth bass; Leesburg; Lepomis microlophus; levees; Little Lake Harris; Mount Dora; Mt. Dora; nutrient removal; Ocklawaha River; pesticides; redear sunfish; rouge ear sunfish; seining; sewage treatment plants; shellcrackers; sport fishing; sun perch; sun perches; water quality; Winter Garden
Rx for Lake Apopka
Tags: agricultural pollution; algae; aquatic vegetation; C. W. Sheffield; citrus processing industry; Claude R. Kirk, Jr.; Claude Roy Kirk, Jr.; eutrophication; fish camps; fish kills; Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission; Florida State Board of Health; FSBH; Gourd Neck Springs; hyacinths; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Technical Committee; levees; Mick Sheffield; Mickey Sheffield; nutrient removal; Orange County Water Conservation Department; pesticides; sewage treatment plants; sportfishing; water quality
Letter from Harold L. Moody to Lawrence E. Jerome (March 13, 1972)
Tags: aeromonas liquefaciens; agricultural pollution; banks; Bickerstaff; blue gills; citrus processing plants; DDE; DDT; dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; ecosystems; fertilizers; fish kills; Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission; FWS; gamefish; gizzard shads; Harold L. Moody; Henry Swanson; Horel; Lake Apopka; lake restoration; Lawrence E. Jerome; littoral; muck farming; muck farms; Ocklawaha River; pesticides; PHS; pondweeds; Potamogeton; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; River Fishery Project; seining; sewage treatment plants; sewage wastes; sports fishing; St. Johns River; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; U.S. Public Health Service; UG; University of Georgia; USFWS; Vallisineria; vertical water level; water hyacinths; Winter Garden; Woods; Zellwood; Zellwood Drainage District
Rural Clean-Up Failures: Deterioration of Lake Apopka Attributed to Introduction of 'Excessive Enrichments'
Tags: aeromonas liquefaciens; agricultural pollution; American alligators; bacteria; bacterium; citrus processing; common alligators; Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission; Frank Hayes; gators; hyacinth control; Lake Apopka; Lake Beauclair; muck farming; muck farms; O. E. Frye, Jr.; Ocklawaha River; pesticides; sewage disposal; UG; University of Georgia School of Veterinary Medicine; water hyacinths; water management; water quality; wildlife die-offs; Wildlife Disease Study; wildlife diseases
Lake Apopka: Operation Cleanup
Tags: A. Duda & Sons; agricultural pollution; algae; Billy Long; carrots; catfish; celery; Central Florida Agricultural Institute; citrus processing plants; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; E. T. York; eutrophication; Everglades; fertilizers; Fiske-Gay Associates, Inc; Florida Department of Pollution Control; Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission; Florida State Board of Health; Frank Hooper; Henry Swanson; Hooper Brothers, Inc; Jim Fiske; John F. Darby; Lake Apopka; Larry R. Sinclair; Leon Miller; muck farms; parathion; peat soil; pesticides; Richard B. Forbes; Sanford Agricultural Research and Education Center; sewage disposal plants; Stanley Winn; sweet corn; UF; University of Florida; water hyacinth; William D. Long; Zellwood Drainage District
Interim Lake Apopka Report (August 1974)
Tags: 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane; agricultural pollution; algae; Allen E. Arthur; ameirus catus; ameirus nebulosus; Apopka-Beauclair Canal; boating; brown bullhead catfish; C. W. Sheffield; citrus processing industry; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; dissolved oxygen; eel; Environmental Endangered Lands Program; Ernest H. Cowen; eutrophication; fertilizers; fish kills; fishing; Florida Wildlife Magazine; Fred Harden; Gourd Neck Springs; Hurricane of 1947; Interagency Planning Committee on Environmental Endangered Lands; Jim Harrell; Joe Crumpton; John Bateman; Lake Apopka; Lake Carlton; lake drawdown; Matt Cross; muck farms; Neil Westbrook; nitrogen; Norman W. Hart, Jr.; Oklawaha River Basin; Oklawaha River Basin Restoration Council; Orlando Area Chamber of Commerce; pesticides; phosphates; sewage treatment plants; Southwest Florida Water Management District; Tom Sawicki; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; water hyacinth; water management; water quality; white catfish; Zellwood Drainage District
Oral History of Geraldean Matthew
Tags: agricultural labor; agriculture; Alfredo Bahena Act; Apopka; apples; arthritis; beans; Belle Glade; carrots; cherries; cherry; citrus; civil rights; clean drinking water; contraception; corn; corporal punishment; crew leaders; Dale Finley Slongwhite; David Overfield; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; discrimination; domestic violence; educational programs; environmental advocacy; environmental justice; environmental law; environmentalism; FAF; Farm Workers Association; Farmworker Association of Florida; farmworkers; farmworkers' rights; FDOH; Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food; FFB; Florida Department of Health; Florida Department of Health in Orange County; Florida Farmworkers Bureau; foliage; FWA; Geraldean Matthew; Geraldean Shannon; Graveyard Quarters; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; HIV; human immunodeficiency virus; Jared Muha; Jeannie Economos; kidney dialysis; kidney disease; labor; labor camps; labor rights; laborers; Lake Apopka; maggot workers; Merita Bread; Mexican Americans; Mexican Pete; Mexicans; Miami; Michigan; migrant farms; migrant farmworkers; migrant labor; migrant laborers; migrant workers; Mount Dora; National Farm Workers Association; NFWA; nursing home technicians; Orange County Health Department; oranges; Palm Beach; pesticides; protected sex; retraining; right to know; safe sex; segregation; sexual abuse; slavery; slaves; string beans; Tallahassee; traffic trucks; tramp trucks; tramps; underemployment; undocumented workers; unemployment; vegetables; workplace injuries
Oral Memoirs of Jeannie Economos
Tags: agribusiness farms; agricultural labor; Agricultural Worker Protection Standard; agriculture; Angel City: A Novel; Angela Tanner; Apopka; Astatula; Audubon Society; AWPS; Betty Woods; Bracero Program; bromomethane; carrots; Central Americans; citrus; Civil Rights Act of 1964; commodity crops; corn; Dale Finley Slongwhite; DI; disability benefits; disability income insurance; disability insurance; disaster education; disaster responses; Domestic Fair Trade Association; economic development; educational programs; environmental advocacy; environmental justice; Environmental Protection Agency; EPA; Eustis; fair trade; Farmworker Association of Florida; farmworkers; farmworkers' rights; Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food; FOLA; food movements; Friends of Lake Apopka; Geraldine Matthew; Geraldine Shannon; globalization; Great Recession; Guatemalans; Haitians; Harry and Harriette Moore Memorial Park; Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex; Hawthorne Village; Henry Flagler; Henry Morrison Flagler; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; immigrants; immigrants’ rights; immigration; income protection; Indiantown; Jared Muha; Jobs and Education Partnership; La Via Campesina; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Farmworker Memorial Quilts Project; Lake Apopka Project; Lake Apopka Restoration Act of 1996; Lake City; Latin Americans; Latinas; Latinos; Linda Lee; Magnolia Park; Mary Tinsley; methyl bromide; Mexican Americans; Mexicans; Mexico; migrant farms; migrant farmworkers; migrant labor; migrant laborers; migrant workers; Mount Dora; Museum of the Apopkans; NAFTA; National Institutes Of Health; NIH; non-profit; North American Free Trade Agreement; not-for[profit; nurseries; nursery; nuts; Oakland Nature Preserve; OASDI; Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance; oranges; OSHA; Patrick D. Smith; Pesticide Action Network International; pesticide exposure; pesticide health and safety; Pesticide Safety and Environmental Health Project Coordinator; pesticides; public housing; race relations; railroads; railways; retraining; Salvadorans; Sara Downs; Save the Manatee Club; slavery; slaves; Social Security; Social Security Disability Insurance; soy; specialty crops; SSD; SSDI; St. Augustine; St. Johns River Water Management District; The Last Harvest: A History and Tribute to the Life and Work of the Farmworkers on Lake Apopka; tomato; tomato industry; tomatoes; U.S. Department of Agriculture; unfree labor; USDA; wage theft; Wahneta; wheat; Wimauma; Winter Garden; Winter Haven; Worker Protection Standard; Zellwood
Oral History of Sister Gail Grimes
Tags: A. Duda & Sons; African Americans; agricultural labor; agriculture; alligators; Ann Kendrick; Apopka; Apopka City Council; bass; bass fishing; Bonita Springs; boycotts; Cape Canaveral; carrot houses; carrots; Cesar Chavez; César Estrada Chávez; citrus; City of Apopka; Crealdé School of Art; discrimination; Dowdell v. City of Apopka; E & J Gallo Winery; farms; Farmworker Association of Florida; farmworkers; ferneries; fernery; Gail Grimes; gators; Germans; Haitians; Hispanics; Hope CommUnity Center; Immokalee; Jared Muha; juice plants; kale; KKK; Ku Klux Klan; laborers; Lake Apopka; Lake County; Latinas; Latinos; lettuce; lupus; Mexican Americans; Mexicans; muck farms; Museum of the Apopkans; nonprofits; nuns; nurseries; nursery; Office for Farmworker Ministry; orange county; orange groves; oranges; pesticide exposure; pesticides; Peter Schreyer; Pierson; Plymouth; Plymouth Citrus Products Cooperative, Inc.; Polk County; POW; POWs; Prisoner of War; Prisoners of War; race relations; racial conflict; racism; radish; radishes; religious sisters; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholicism; Roman Catholics; segregation; service learning; SLE; soldiers; Stomping Ground; systemic lupus erythematosus; The Last Harvest; turpentine; Vietnam War; wages; Walt Disney World Resort; William Donald Borders; Willis V. McCall; Willis Virgil McCall; Winter Garden; Winter Garden City Council; Winter Park; World War II; WWII