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Treasure Coast lawmakers aren t satisfied with the status quo of water quality, they agreed at a virtual summit on Lake Okeechobee discharges Thursday.
But how are they committing to funding projects and what tangible actions are they proposing to help reverse course, environmentalists asked.
The first-ever Fix the FLO Summit lobbed questions at lawmakers for 90 minutes about their top water priorities and upcoming legislative action to improve the St. Lucie River and Indian River Lagoon estuaries health.
The summit was hosted by Friends of the Everglades, the Rivers Coalition, the Florida Oceanographic Society and Indian Riverkeeper Mike Conner. Five state and federal lawmakers, each representing the St. Lucie River estuary, participated in the summit:
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Red tide patches move along Southwest Florida coast
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Sporadic reports of fish kills and respiratory irritation point to patches of red tide off the coast of Southwest Florida, aligning with data researchers have collected this week.
Dead fish spotted were at Bonita Beach Friday morning and high counts of red tide, caused by the organism Karenia brevis, were reported along Sanibel earlier this week.
“It hasn’t looked good for most of the week,” said Rick Bartleson, research scientist with the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation. “It started out pretty bad on Monday with about 20 million cells per liter, a significant jump from last week so I started increasing sampling.”
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