Originally published on Fox4 by Andrew Shipley on August 14, 2024
A little over a week ago, Hurricane Debby dumped millions of gallons of water across Southwest Florida. Now question is what is in that water and what is it doing to our environment as it pushes out into the Gulf of Mexico?
“Anything that has been deposited, spilled, leaked under the soil unfortunately will find their way into our local water bodies, which most of those do drain into our estuary here,” said Calusa Waterkeeper Codty Pierce.
And when you mix all those pollutants in our waterways, Pierce says, “There is some piss poor water quality that is being moved around.”
The poor water quality has been leading not only lead to very cloudy waterways, but water full of bacteria and algae which is sucking the water dry of oxygen.
“I believe most of the conditions we are witnessing here are hypoxic conditions. Which basically a lot of these marine organisms are starving for oxygen.”
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