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Two stories made the press recently that make it seem there’s something very wrong with Lee County’s leadership. The first story tells us that Lee County Health Dept has declared the beaches “Clean” in the midst of a huge red tide bloom.(1). I’ll quote the entire article here because this paper likes to take down [...]
Continue reading...28 October 2007
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Blue green algae bloom? Not Florida red tide? That’s correct. Blue green algae is actually a name commonly used to describe many types of algae. Although blue green algae is usually described as “non-toxic” This editor has seen cases of burn like rashes on the skin, nausea, respiratory distress etc linked to exposure to blue-green [...]
Continue reading...28 October 2007
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The red tide in northern Florida is still hanging on. According to Jacksonville.com “St. Johns, Flagler counties are affected most; Jacksonville Beach still has some effects.” and “a state agency reported higher levels of red tide off the Northeast Florida coast Friday, beach officials had mixed views this week about when the irritant would leave. [...]
Continue reading...28 October 2007
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The recent red tide bloom off the northwest coast of Florida is effecting Alabama as well. Evidently they’ve been directly effected by either the same Florida red tide bloom or a new red tide bloom. According to Everything Alabama: “Oyster beds in Bon Secour Bay were closed Tuesday after tests by the Alabama Department of [...]
Continue reading...28 October 2007
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I just returned from a week (10/20 through 10/27,2007) on Sanibel Island. When we arrived onto the island and went to the beach the gulf water looked murky and had a fish odor that gave me some concern since I live on a 7 mile island (Ocean City) in New Jersey and knew this was [...]
Continue reading...26 October 2007
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There’s a very large red tide bloom ranging from onshore to about 100 miles into the Gulf off the coast of Naples Florida. Naples is very odd and has an odd non-realistic way of dealing with everything evidently, including red tide. Evidently red tide doesn’t exist until the county leaders vote to decide if it [...]
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31 October 2007
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