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How will the project be monitored?
Once completed, the group must achieve five successful years of measurable nutrient reduction in the water during a seven-year window, and will maintain upkeep on the marsh s vegetation, Graham said. Then, the wetlands will be turned over to the District.
Water samplers have a clear-cut technique for measuring how much pollution is siphoned out of the water as it passes through aquatic plants, Graham said.
Nitrogen and phosphorus levels are measured before water enters into the wetlands. Then, after working its way across the fields, and phosphorus and nutrients attach to plants or deposit into the soil, another sample is taken on the opposite end.
The West Palm Beach Director of Public Utilities, Dr. Poonam Kalkat, said they won’t be able to lift the water advisory until they receive results back from recent water samples and in order to speed up the process, they asked for help from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s department. “Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office has a small plane that we are going to be able to have our lab manager fly out to Tallahassee,” Kalkat said. The City of West Palm Beach issued a water advisory Friday and started treating the water after elevated levels of a toxin produced by cyanobacteria also known as blue-green algae were detected in the water treatment plant.“Because we were proactively doing a sample even past our monthly sampling that we were able to find something and as soon as we found it, confirmed it we started working on getting advisories out,” Kalkat said. On Tuesday, samples were flown from South Florida to Tallahassee because there are not many labs that do this toxin analy
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