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Fla. residents worry about impact of Glades Reservoir on oyster industry
Third public hearing on proposed Hall County held at river basin's southernmost point
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EASTPOINT, Fla. —Here, the notion of taking more water out of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin is a sensitive topic. "I have seen a grown man cry over the situation in the bay," said Lois Swoboda, a reporter for the Apalachicola and Carrabelle Times. Swoboda came to the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve to cover an open house on a project that proposes to supply water to people and industries hundreds of miles away.