Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Sarasota County still has background concentrations of Karenia

Any more correlation would you think that considering we had recent beach closures in several locations that we still have some background Karenia (precursor to Red Tide) STILL hanging around and in water that is still relatively cool by Florida standards.


Per MYFWC.com: In southwest Florida, Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, was not detected in water samples collected this week inshore of Manatee County.  Two samples (out of 20 total samples) collected alongshore of Sarasota County contained background concentrations of K. brevis.
 Sampling will continue this week, and complete results will be available in the next scheduled status report on Friday, March 11


To top it off per the Sierra Club we need to ask that  Senator Nelson to help protect our Water Resources. We need to ask? Isn't a given? Haven't we learnt anything from our past experiences, Water quality is paramount but there is always the economic damage that is inflicted on an heavily Tourism reliant state let alone the Environment where we all like to swim, fish and play. 

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