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posted by mrpg on Saturday April 10 2021, @12:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the could dept.

Water being pumped into Tampa Bay could cause a massive algae bloom:

Millions of gallons of water laced with fertilizer ingredients are being pumped into Florida's Tampa Bay from a leaking reservoir at an abandoned phosphate plant at Piney Point. As the water spreads into the bay, it carries phosphorus and nitrogen—nutrients that under the right conditions can fuel dangerous algae blooms that can suffocate sea grass beds and kill fish, dolphins and manatees.

It's the kind of risk no one wants to see, but officials believed the other options were worse.

About 300 homes sit downstream from the 480-million-gallon reservoir, which began leaking in late March 2021. State officials determined that pumping out the water was the only way to prevent the reservoir's walls from collapsing. They decided the safest location for all that water would be out through Port Manatee and into the bay.

Journal References:
1.) Jeff C. Ho, Anna M. Michalak, Nima Pahlevan. Widespread global increase in intense lake phytoplankton blooms since the 1980s, Nature (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1648-7)
2.) James W. Fourqurean, Carlos M. Duarte, Hilary Kennedy, et al. Seagrass ecosystems as a globally significant carbon stock, Nature Geoscience (DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1477)
3.) Janine Lemaire, Bénédicte Sisto, Hamilton Disston, et al. The Everglades Ecosystem: Under Protection or Under Threat?, Miranda. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone / Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world (DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/miranda.2881)
4.) Brian E. Lapointe, Rachel A. Brewton, Laura W. Herren, et al. Nitrogen enrichment, altered stoichiometry, and coral reef decline at Looe Key, Florida Keys, USA: a 3-decade study, Marine Biology (DOI: 10.1007/s00227-019-3538-9)


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  • (Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Saturday April 10 2021, @03:43AM (5 children)

    by SpockLogic (2762) on Saturday April 10 2021, @03:43AM (#1135605)

    Capitalize Profits and Socialize Losses, it's the GOP way.

    Oh, and the Florida governor, Ron ignore the science and let the people die DeSantis, is not fit to be Dog Catcher.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @04:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @04:56AM (#1135614)

    Capitalize Profits and Socialize Losses, it's the GOP way.

    Such a righteous sense!
    Commendable, indeed [commondreams.org] (read all or at least to "5. Superdelegate Garbage" included)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @08:08PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @08:08PM (#1135779)

    Start getting used to "President DeSantis".

    Or VP, if we reelect Trump. That's even better. Naw, let's do both. DeSantis gets 4 years as VP, then 8 as president. Trump could be VP then.

    • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Sunday April 11 2021, @06:00AM

      by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 11 2021, @06:00AM (#1135953)

      This is probably the wrong post to give a serious reply to, but...

      Would Trump even consider running for VP? He strikes me as an individual who doesn't want to play second fiddle or junior partner.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday April 11 2021, @11:23PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 11 2021, @11:23PM (#1136160) Journal

      Start getting used to "President DeSantis".

      You mean... Florida will secede?

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 12 2021, @01:37AM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday April 12 2021, @01:37AM (#1136211)

    ...it's the GOP way.

    Fair's fair. It has nothing to do with the republicans specifically, it's a general principle of capitalism.