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- Tags: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
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
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
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
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
Undesirable Factors Cited in Report of 'The Big Pond', Lake Apopka; 1962-1964
Tags: agricultural pollution; agriculture; Bureau of Sanitary Engineering; citrus; citrus industry; City of Winter Garden; David B. Lee; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; draining; farmer; farming; fertilizer; fish; fishing; Florida Inland Sportsfishing Host; Florida State Board of Health; Free of 1962-1963; freeze; hyacinth; insecticide; irrigation; lake; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Chapter; Orange County Health Department; oxygen; packing; Percy D. Blunt; pesticide; pollution; processing; research; Robert W. Sherman; SBH; sewage; sewage treatment plant; spray; waste; water; water conservation; water quality; William R. Pomeroy; Winter Garden
Memorandum from Leesburg Fisheries Experiment Station to John W. Woods (May 28, 1964)
Tags: agricultural pollution; agriculture; Apopka Beauclair Canal; chironomid larvae; citrus; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; fish; fishing; Florida State Board of Health; George Reid; Hurricane of 1947; hyacinth; insecticide; Joe E. Burgess; John W. Woods; lake; Lake Apopka; Lee; Leesburg; Leesburg Fisheries Experiment Station; Orange County Sportsman Association; Peace River Basin; pesticide; pollution; research; sanitation; SBH; sewage; shad; Summary Report of Lake Apopka; waste; water; water quality; William Erwin; Winter Garden
Conference on Lake Apopka Fish Kills, June 12, 1963
Tags: A. D. Aldrich; Angebilt Hotel; bass; biologist; biology; blue-green algae; bluegill; Board of Conservation; C. W. Sheffield; catfish; Cecil Farris Bryant; citrus; Clayton Phillippy; Columnaris; Corps of Engineers; crappie; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; disease; Don Rider; Don Schieswold; Donald McAllister; fertilizer; fish kils; Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission; Florida State Board of Health; Florida Water Resources Commission; gizzard shad; Harold L. Moody; insecticide; J. W. Bickerstaff; J. W. Springstead; Joe E. Burgess; K. K. Hofstetler; lake; Lake Apopka; Lyngbya contorta; Melosira; Micocystis; nitrogen; Nitzschia; Oakland; Oocystis; Orange County Sportsman's Association; Orlando, Winter Garden; oxygen; oxygen supersaturation; pesticide; phosphate; plankton; R. A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center; Rosco Hamilton; Russell Fielding; S. W. Surber; Scenedesmus; shellcracker; smallmouth bass; speckled bullhead; spray; The Orlando Evening Star; trout; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; U.S. Public Health Service; water quality; Whittaker; William Woods
Lake Apopka Woes Not Answered
Tags: agricultural pollution; agriculture; algae; Apopka; Apopka Beauclair Canal; bass; Bob Sherman; C. W. Sheffield; chemical; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; Don Rider; Ed Zagar; farmer; farming; fish camps; fish kill; fishing; Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission; Florida State Board of Health; hyacinth; insecticide; K. K. Hufstutler; lake; Lake Apopka; oxygen content; pesticide; pollution; research; Robert "Bob" W. Sherman; spraying; The Orlando Evening Star; water pollution; water quality; West Orange County; Winter Garden; Zellwood
Letter from Doyle C. Golden to A. D. Aldrich (August 26, 1963)
Tags: A. D. Aldrich; acetonitrile; agricultural pollution; agriculture; Apopka Beauclair Canal; bass; Burke Chester; catfish; chlorinated hydrocarbon; Crown Point; DDD; DDE; DDT; dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; dieldrin; Division of Chemistry; Doyle C. Golden; endrin; fish; fishing; Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission; gas chromatography; Gator Cove; Hog Island; ichlorodiphenyldichloroethane; insecticide; L. E. Cromwell; Lake Apopka; pesticide; Pine Island Point; pollution; rotenone; Tallahassee; U.S. Department of Agriculture; USDA; water; water conservation; water quality; Winter Garden
Inspection of Fish Kills at Lake Apopka, Florida
Tags: agricultural pollution; agriculture; Argulus; bacteria; bass; Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife; C. W. Sheffield; catfish; copepod; Crop Reporting Service; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; disease; DOI; Eastern Fish Disease Laboratory; Eddie Cromwell; farm; farming; fish; fish kill; fishing; Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission; FWS; gizzard shad; Harold L. Moody; insecticide; Lake Apopka; muck farm; Oliver Cope; Orange County Board of Health; parasite; pathogen; pesticide; pollution; protozoan; research; Scyphidia; speckled bullhead; spotted bullhead; spray; Thomas L. Wellborn, Jr.; threadfin shad; trematode; Trichodina; U.S. Department of Agriculture; U.S. Department of the Interior; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; USDA; water; water conservation; water quality
Letter from Robert "Bob" W. Sherman to Henry F. Swanson (June 19, 1963)
Tags: agricultural pollution; agriculture; bass; Bob W. Sherman; catfish; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; farmer; farming; fish; fish camp; fish kill; fishing; gizzard shad; Henry F. Swanson; insecticide; Killarney; Killarney Court; Killarney Fish Camp; Lake Apopka; orange county; Orange County Extension Office; orlando; pesticide; pollution; Robert "Bob" W. Sherman; water; water conservation; water quality; West Orange County; Zellwood; Zellwood Drainage and Water Control District
Letter from F. G. Banks to Clayton Phillippy (September 5, 1963)
Tags: agricultural pollution; agriculture; bass; Burke Chester; catfish; Clayton Phillippy; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; Doyle C. Golden; Eddie Cromwell; F. G. Banks; fish; fisheries Division; fishing; Florida Game and Freshwater Commission; gas chromatography; gizzard shad; insecticide; James "Jim" P. Clugston; Jim Clugston; Lake Apopka; Lakeland; Lakeland Hills Boulevard; pesticide; pollution; research; Tallahassee; U.S. Department of Agriculture; USDA; water; water conservation; water quality
Letter from John R. Thoman to A. D. Aldrich (July 25, 1963)
Tags: A Rapid Screening Method for DDT in Milk by Gas Chromatography; A. D. Aldrich; agricultural pollution; agriculture; Atlanta, Georgia; bass; bluegill; Chemistry and Physics Section; chlorinated hydrocarbon; DDD; DDE; DDT; dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; Eugene W. Surber; fish; fishing; Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission; gas chromatography; Harvey Boyle; ichlorodiphenyldichloroethane; insecticide; J. E. Campbell; K. A. Busch; Lake Apopka; Mary L. Schafer; Milk and Food Section; pesticide; pollution; Public Health Service; Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center; Seventh Street; Tallahassee; TDE; Tennessee Avenue; Tennessee Street; U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; water; water conservation; water quality; Water Supply and Pollution Control
Lake Apopka, Florida Fish Kill Report by Eugene W. Surber
Tags: A. D. Aldrich; agricultural pollution; agriculture; algae; algal poisoning; Aquatic Biology Section; Bacillus columnaris; bacteria; bass; black crappie; bluegill; bullhead; catfish; Chic Archer; Cincinnati, Ohio; corn; crappie; crop; Cytophaga columnaris; Dactylogyrus; DDT; detritus; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; Duda; Eugene W. Surber; farming; fish; fish kill; fishing; flatworm; Flavobacterium columnare; Flexibacter columnaris; Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission; Florida State Board of Health; game fish; gill; gizzard shad; Graham; Harold L. Moody; insecticide; Joe E. Burgess; lake; Lake Apopka; Lake Harris; MacDonald Flying Field; Montverde Fish Camp; Oakland; oxygen; parasite; parathion; pesticide; phytoplankton; plankton; planktonic algae; pollution; research; Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center; Russell Fielding; Scyphidia; speckled bullhead; spray; supersaturation; toxaphene; Trichodina; Turk; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; water; water conservation; water quality; Winter Garden; Zellwood; Zellwood Drainage and Water Control District
Letter from Harold L. Moody to O. E. Frye, Jr. (June 11, 1962)
Tags: agricultural pollution; Apopka Moose Head Lodge; Bill Fulford; Bill Turk; Board of Commissioners; Bob Sherman; chamber of commerce; chemical; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; diethyl parathion; dissolved oxygen; Don McAllister; fish camp; fish kill; fishing; fishing lodge; Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission; Folidol; freshwater fishing; frog; Harold L. Moody; insecticide; Jeb Stuart; Joe Jacobs; John A. Sutton; Lake Apopka; Lake County Board of Commissioners; M. W. Hammond; O. E. Frye Jr.; Orange County Board of Commissioners; oxygen; parathion; parathion-ethyl; pesticide; pollution; snake; sportsfishing; Tom Denmark; turtle; W. R. Peavy, Jr.; water quality; Winter Garden Chamber of Commerce
The Tallahassee News Release, June 1962
Tags: agricultural pollution; bass; Bob Peavy; citrus; citrus industry; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; diethyl parathion; fish kill; fishing; fishing lodge; Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission; Florida State Board of Health; Folidol; gizzard; Harold L. Moody; insecticide; Lake Apopka; lake whitefish; parathion; parathion-ethyl; pesticide; pollution; press release; sewage; Talahassee; The Tallahassee News; threadfin shad; waste; water quality; Winter Haven
Memorandum from W. R. Peavy, Jr. (July 23, 1962)
Tags: agricultural pollution; Charles Weiss; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; diethyl parathion; fish kill; fishing; fishing lodge; Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission; Folidol; frog; insecticide; lake; Lake Apopka; parathion; parathion-ethyl; pesticide; regulation; sanitary science; snake; turtle; UNC-Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; W. R. Peavy, Jr.; water conservation; water quality
A History of Central Florida, Episode 29: Mosquito Beater
Tags: A History of Central Florida; Bob Clarke; Brevard Avenue; Chip Ford; Cocoa; Cocoa Beach; Daniel Velásquez; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; Ella Gibson; Florida Historical Society; George Harrell; Gordon Patterson; insecticides; insects; Katie Kelley; Kendra Hazen; Mosquito; Mosquito Beater Club; Mosquito Beaters; mosquito control; mosquito fish; mosquitoes; OCRHC; Orange County Regional History Center; Robert Cassanello; Speedy Harrell