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Myakka River | PMWK

Peace + Myakka

WATERKEEPER

ABOUT PMWK

The Peace and Myakka Waterkeeper is part of Florida's coalition of Waterkeepers and Andy Mele serves as the Waterkeeper dedicated to these magnificent rivers. 

MISSION

Our mission is to preserve and protect water quality and ecological integrity in the watersheds and estuaries of the Peace and Myakka Rivers of Florida.

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Water testing, education, activism - we strive to ensure that all action that can be taken on behalf of our precious watersheds is taken.

Peace River

FROM ANDY MELE,
WATERKEEPER

From 1995 through 2005 I worked for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, or just plain Clearwater, winding up as Executive Director for 5 ½ of those years. I helped bring the venerable environmental group, with its magnificent wooden replica of a Hudson River sloop, out of an economic and existential crisis and back to its place as a valued resource in New York and the nation.

On my watch, General Electric was finally backed into a corner and forced to sign a Consent Decree to clean the toxic PCBs out of the upper Hudson, after 25 years of resisting. We handed Indian Point (nuclear powerplant) its first courtroom defeat in decades, and helped launch the Hudson River Park, on Manhattan’s west side.

ABOUT OUR RIVERS

The Myakka River is 72 miles long and 315 square miles.

MYAKKA RIVER

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