Big Sugar
Sandy, the group “Captiansforcleanwater” in Ft. Myers is doing a pretty good job making sure elected officials understand what is currently occurring after 70 years of Big Sugar discharges across the River of Grass.
The Gulf Stream runs south along the west coast of Florida so when we get a big discharge via the Caloosahatchee it dumps out behind Sanibel Island, fills up Pine Island Sound and portions of Charlotte Harbor and then flows south toward Naples, Everglades City, Flamingo, and eventually towards the lower Keys. The old saying that “the solution to pollution is dilution” works poorly in our relatively skinny water on the West Florida Shelf.
Conner was down at Cayo Costa last weekend and said the Red Tide “or something” had run everything out of the bay. NOAA says there is a red tide bloom down there now - how ironic.
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