Our Winning Record

Since 2021, the Downriver Project has mobilized the Forgotten Coast to defeat four dangerous proposals, all worth millions to their backers. These include:

  1. A proposal by a Louisiana oil company to conduct speculative oil drilling in the Apalachicola River Basin (2024-2025);

  2. A two-year effort to build a 16-pump gas station on the Wakulla Springs cave, which feeds the largest freshwater spring on Earth (2022-2023);

  3. An elaborate campaign by Wakulla County officials to dump wastewater into a protected water supply, through a land deal with a former county commissioner (2021);

  4. An attempt by a developer to pollute Spring Creek’s fisheries, leaving taxpayers to clean up the mess (2022).

In addition, our team has motivated a major wastewater system upgrade, secured a legislative appropriation to establish a 230-acre park, and helped establish a ban on oil drilling in 1,100 square miles of the Apalachicola River Basin, as part of the Kill the Drill Coalition.