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Black water devastates coral in Keys
Black water devastates coral in Keys
More than half of the coral on the north side of the Florida Keys was destroyed in the past 12 months, and researchers who've been monitoring Keys coral since 1996 say the black water event from last spring is to blame.
"I'm sure that's what caused it," said James Porter, a leading coral expert who heads the research team. "It's something to do with the water chemistry, but it's beyond anything we know about." ..............
New concerns
What worries some environmentalists and others along the Southwest Florida coast is the appearance in recent weeks of another mass of black water that formed off Sanibel Island near where the Caloosahatchee River — an outlet for Lake Okeechobee — empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
Jim Anderson, a Sanibel pilot, said he at first thought the water was oil. Others who live along the Caloosahatchee River say they've seen a drop in water quality there over recent weeks.
"I noticed when waves come on shore, the water is thick and black," said Mitrah Bakhtian, who's lived along the river for seven years.
Satellite pictures show a cloud of dark water hugging the Florida coast and concentrating south of Cape Romano, though this water mass isn't as large as the one in the spring...
(Long Article... has photo)
http://www.naplesnews.com/02/08/naples/d789340a.htm
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