Sweetwater Wetlands Park - A Triple Crown Winner

Name: Sweetwater Wetlands Park - A Triple Crown Winner
Start: 2025-03-20T18:45:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-20T20:15:00-04:00
Location: Cypress & Grove Brewing Co.

Schedule

Thu Mar 20 2025 at 06:45 pm to 08:15 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Cypress & Grove Brewing Co. | Gainesville, FL

Join Debbie Segal for this informative presentation and learn how Sweetwater Wetlands Park and other constructed treatment wetlands successfully and inconspicuously clean water bodies, and about GRU’s plans for a new system – the Groundwater Recharge Wetland.
The ecological, recreational, and ecotourism benefits of GRU’s Sweetwater Wetlands Park are wide-ranging and represent a triple crown winner for water quality, wildlife, and visitors. Because of Sweetwater’s many community-wide benefits, GRU has decided to construct a second treatment wetland, one that will be located on the west side of Gainesville and will be designed to recharge the Floridan Aquifer with cleaner water.
Debbie Segal is a retired environmental scientist who worked in the field of wetlands ecology, soil science, and environmental permitting for over 25 years. While working with Wetland Solutions, Inc., she helped design and permit Sweetwater Wetlands Park. She serves on the quarterly Sweetwater stakeholder committee and leads a monthly bird walk at Sweetwater. Debbie is also president of the Alachua Audubon Society