Weeki Wachee Springs

The rules will prohibit boaters from mooring or beaching their vessels in a roughly six-mile stretch from Weeki Wachee State Park to the popular Rogers Park boat ramp.

If you want to visit one of the best known springs and manatee watering holes in the state - you're out of luck. At least through November. Three Sisters Springs at Crystal River is closed as workers try to undo decades of damage from too many visitors.

For the next year, divers will be below the crystal-clear surface of the Weeki Wachee River, vacuuming up sediment that is threatening to make the waterway impassable.

State wildlife officials on Thursday backed off a plan to limit mooring of boats at specific areas along the popular Weeki Wachee River. They are now leaning toward approving more stringent restrictions proposed by Hernando County.

With a grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, federal funding from the American Rescue Plan and money from Hernando County, the plan is to move hundreds of homes from septic to the county's sewage system.

Hernando County hopes the designation will curtail the degradation of the natural resource.

Weeki Wachee ceases to exist – at least as a city.Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Tuesday that abolishes the municipality.It will now become part…