River
Reflections
Phyl Kimball
As a young boy I warmly remember summer mornings watching
the sun rise while fishing along the white sandy banks of the Cedar River. I
spent hours staring intently at my floating cork anxiously waiting for it to
disappear beneath the surface.
As years passed and my fishing skills increased I began
pursuing the revered Largemouth Bass using plastic worms as my strategic
lure of choice. I also enjoyed many days of wade fishing in the expansive
stretches of Eel Grass shallows of the St Johns.
During the early nineteen-sixties
Jacksonville's Cedar River was vividly alive with aquatic plants, fish
and wildlife. Its cool clear waters looked like ice tea. Large expanses
of white sand and towering Cypress trees lined its shoreline. The river was
a destination point for large populations of schooling Shad, Mullet and
Largemouth Bass.
Remembering the beauty of the river from my childhood, it
remains my passion to restore the beautiful St Johns River to its former
state of purity and health.
The good news is that NOW there is knowledge and new
technology available that can be utilized to restore the St Johns and its
tributaries to their original state of grandeur. We believe that our
proposed plan of action will result in a rapid and dramatic recovery.
Let us begin TODAY in working together to achieve this
worthwhile goal of restoring the rivers.
Phyl Kimball
President
Kimball Environmental,
Inc.
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Sharing the Vision
John Moll
As CEO of
CrystalStream Technologies, I have dedicated the last 10 years of my
life to capturing and removing over 15 million pounds of material from
our lakes, streams and rivers. When Phyl Kimball approached me
about bringing our technology to the “Restore the Rivers” project, the
idea immediately became personal to me.
I grew up just a few
miles from Phyl, on the Ribault River in Jacksonville, Florida. I
too experienced the bounty of the St. Johns River system, as it provided
recreation and a lot more as I fished for fun, food, and ran crab traps
as supplemental income for our family.
Today, all of those
things are gone from the places I used to enjoy as a young man. We can
put it back, and we will. Restore the Rivers will do more than
clean up the results of our neglect, it will attack the problem at the
source.
This is a project we
all can and should support.
John Moll
CEO
CrystalStream
Technologies, Inc.
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Sharing
the Vision
Bernie Schultz
I was born and raised in Florida, as was
my mother and her father
before her. In our time here we have witnessed a steady decline in
Florida's wetlands, and the rate of that decline is accelerating
exponentially.
Over the years I have been involved with
various campaigns to stop the degradation, but none that actually could
reverse the process. And that is why I am in full support of Phyl
Kimball's plan to restore our state's waterways.
His clean-up efforts will remove chemical
pesticides, herbicides and other residual pollutants from sediment
collected through decades of abuse to our waterways.
Join me in support of this effort--it's
time to do the right thing!
Bernie Schultz
Professional Angler and Outdoor Columnist
Bernie Schultz Fishing
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