Water conservancy groups urge Florida regulators to set water-quality standards

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 19, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

Thick, smelly clumps of blue-green algae have been decaying along the Caloosahatchee near the south side of the Franklin Lock this week. It comes as several water conservancy groups in our area urged the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to set water-quality standards for the toxins in the algal blooms in a letter Wednesday. It’s signed off by Calusa Waterkeeper, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, Conservancy of SWFL, and Center for Biological Diversity. Triennial Review Comments Cyanotoxins by Olivia Hyde on Scribd The group said it was “disappointed...

Cape Coral coming up with plan to keep algae out of canals this summer

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 19, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Water in Cape Coral canals is mostly clear now, but in the summer of 2018 it was filled with green gunk. The City of Cape Coral is working on a plan if algae begins to cover canals this summer. Blue-green algae has been spotted in other areas of Lee County much earlier than normal, which is concerning. This week, the city will be coordinating with Florida and Lee County agencies to come up with a game plan just in case harmful blooms return. This summer, city staff is looking into using nanobubble technology. The only thing holding them back is funding. Whatever...

Fort Myers Shores canal turns green due to algae bloom

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 18, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

FORT MYERS SHORES, Fla. – The water in a Fort Myers Shores canal has turned a shade of green due to blue-green algae. The green stuff can be seen coming down the Caloosahatchee. “It’s surprising this early in the year to already have that. I’m used to it usually around August but in May? That’s kind of scary,” said boater Shaun Torrente. “I come to this dock 2-3 times a week because we’re usually messing with boats and stuff. I got here today and it was just completely green.” Boaters say last week there wasn’t any algae in at the Davis Boat Ramp...

Lee Commissioners approve Caloosahatchee water quality research project

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 18, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

LEE COUNTY, Fla. – The Lee Board of County Commissioners approved an agreement with Florida Gulf Coast University on Tuesday for a water quality research project at the Boma site in Glades County. The research project would test methods for removal of nitrogen from the Caloosahatchee River surface waters in order to improve water quality. The project will be funded by a grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The research, done in partnership with FGCU and the South Florida Water Management District, will take place at the C-43 Water Quality Treatment and Testing...

Sharks use Earth’s magnetic field as ‘natural’ GPS to navigate world’s oceans

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 18, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Sharks use the Earth’s magnetic field as a sort of natural GPS to navigate journeys that take them great distances across the world’s oceans, scientists have found. Researchers said their marine laboratory experiments with a small species of shark confirm long-held speculation that sharks use magnetic fields as aids to navigation — behavior observed in other marine animals such as sea turtles, reported the Associated Press. Researchers’ study — published this month in the journal Current Biology — also sheds light on why sharks...

Water experts study blue-green algae bloom

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 17, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

FORT MYERS, Fla.– Blue-green algae is back with a vengeance. “The algae is thriving because the conditions are just right for them,” said FGCU Water School Professor, Barry Rosen. Rosen is working with his students to collect samples of the bloom to study. “The rainy season will come which will give us a flush off the land which could stimulate the growth but also during the rainy season it becomes much more turbulent. The water will get stirred up, they’ll get moved out of the light and they don’t do as well,” said Rosen. Over the course of the next several...

Cicadas incoming: Billions of insects emerging for monthlong mating ritual

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 17, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

NBC News — Ready or not, Brood X has arrived. Billions of cicadas are emerging from their underground habitats for the first time in 17 years to take part in a noisy, monthlong mating ritual. Cicada sightings have already been reported in Virginia, Maryland, and Georgia. Warm weather on the East Coast could bring out the insects in big numbers this week. “It’s such a unique experience because they really take over for a month or so,” said John Cooley, an entomologist at the University of Connecticut. “There may be trillions of ants around, but most of the time...

Lehigh Acres gator trapper wrangles gators two days in a row

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on May 15, 2021. Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla.– A gator made itself at home at a Lehigh Acres community on Friday. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission got a call after the four-foot gator made its way from under a car to the back porch of a home. “I was actually just looking out my back porch and I seen him walking across the yard and I was like ‘Oh, that’s a gator,’” said Mackenzie Marinell. FWC dispatched Tracey Hansen, a gator trapper who has been wrangling for 30-years. “Got here and he had slipped out of the backyard,” said Hansen. “He was along the bushes. Had to chase him down.” In only a...

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