handsacross In: North Port commissioners urge residents to curb year-round fertilizer use | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

North Port commissioners urge residents to curb year-round fertilizer use

The trend is here:  urban fertilizer is being targeted [correctly we might add] as promoting algae growth and probably also worsening the red tide. Hooray for Northport, Venice, Sarasota County and all the other municipalities […]

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fertilizante cuidados22 In: Following fertilizer leads to farms, golf courses, landscaping amid algae blooms | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Following fertilizer leads to farms, golf courses, landscaping amid algae blooms

  It’s a matter of money.  We can clean up the water, but at a price.  We can live without fertilizer, but we don’t want to.  Someday there will be a reckoning. Before that happens, […]

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MELEALGAE In: Silence Of Science On Red Tide - Seeking Objective Research | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Silence Of Science On Red Tide – Seeking Objective Research

Word choice may mislead, and here “initiate” may be technically true, but “exacerbate” may be more precise and equally condemning.   And many disinterested water scientists view a relationship between our catastrophic, nutrient-caused algae issue and […]

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lisa rinamen newfi In: The Long, Toxic Summer Is Here | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

The Long, Toxic Summer Is Here

The St. Johns River now has toxic algae, as seen in the following news item “Toxic Algae Invades St Johns River,” from Jacksonville Channel 4.  We recall the mess in the Santa Fe during the […]

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