bpiper
Well-Known Member
Yeah, this stuff is scary but we can control it with sensible fertilizer use. Might mean WDW and other places look less lush and the sugar growers don't make as much money but Florida is built on tourism and not just to Orlando. If the Pols will find the will to make it so and stop kow-tow ing to the sugar and other industries that pay their campaign bills this kind of pollution can stop.
I don't usually stand up on a soap box but I do want people to understand what they spread on the ground doesn't stay there,View attachment 277211 it moves into the waterways so it needs to be controlled. These series of ponds will do that. What came out of the second largest freshwater lake (surface area) in the US to the east coast of Florida is shown above.
Second largest freshwater lake in the US???? It think your forgetting the Great Lakes. I grew up along side of Lake Erie (Cleveland, Port Clinton/Sandusky). Speaking of that lake, it also has the same problem at its western end with fertilizer runoff from farming in Northwest Ohio flowing into the Maumee River and into the relatively shallow western end of Erie. Several years ago, Toledo Ohio had to shut down its water intake from the lake due to toxic algae blooms around it. The city was without water for several days until winds blew the alage away from the water intake.