Mitch Roffer News Today

Marine scientists with decades of experience monitoring coastal waters of Brevard County had no clue what we were looking at.

The essence of the idea is simple: pump ocean water into the Indian River Lagoon and create new inlets that would then let the water circulate back to sea, diluting or removing the excess nutrients that are killing the estuary.

Some critics warn that new inlets in the Lagoon could risk changing the ecology of the lagoon while pushing pollution south, eventually onto beaches.

Some critics warn that new inlets in the Lagoon could risk changing\u00a0the ecology of the lagoon while\u00a0pushing pollution south, eventually onto beaches.