by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 31, 2020 | CWK Rangers
CWK Ranger Profile – Manny Aparicio Professional and personal background: My wife and I are native Floridians. I am from Tampa. She is from Destin. We met as students at USF, immediately fell for each other, and married in 1980. We also lived aboard a sailboat...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 28, 2020 | Press
Originally published in The News-Press by Chad Gillis on January 28, 2020 The dry season is finally starting to live up to its name. After an early end to the 2019 rainy season and a soggy December, January has turned out to be all dry, and meteorologists are calling...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 27, 2020 | CWK Rangers
CWK Ranger Profile – Maggie Stevens Professional and personal background: I was a School District of Lee County employee for over 30 years, the majority in the Early Childhood Department. In my last four years, I served as principal of Early Childhood and the...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 23, 2020 | Press
As seen in a TC Palm Op-Ed submitted by Dr. Walter Bradely and Calusa Waterkeeper Board Member, Howard Simon Floridians are well-aware of the acute environmental and health problems of harmful algal blooms and they are looking to their political representatives to...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 22, 2020 | Press
Originally published in The Associated Press by Bobby Caina Calvan on January 22, 2020 The scum of blue-green algae was so thick and invasive in Florida two years ago that it suffocated fish by the thousands. Birds dropped dead. And people stayed out of the water....
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 22, 2020 | Bacteria Monitoring, Water Testing
Poor results at every station on Billy’s Creek this month. Extremely high contamination at the Ortiz and Ortiz Circle stations as is almost always the case. Thanks to retired engineers and CWK Rangers Chris and Ed Shinouskis for their help in collecting and...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 17, 2020 | Press
Originally published in The News-Press by Chad Gillis on January 17, 2020 Lawmakers are pushing several bills this session that have regulatory implications as the state tries to rid its waters of blue-green algae and similar pollution. The recommendations came from...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 13, 2020 | Press
As seen in a Naples Daily News Op-Ed submitted by John Cassani, Calusa Waterkeeper For the first time in over 20 years of monitoring, FDEP has declared Estero Bay impaired for nutrient pollution in 2019. The shock effect of hearing that water quality is in crisis does...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 9, 2020 | Harmful Algal Blooms, Press
Blue-Green Algae Returns to Fort Myers Shores Originally published by WINK News on January 8, 2020 John Cassani, the Calusa Waterkeeper, said to see algae in the middle of the dry season is unusual. ”When it’s calm and the wind starts blowing, those tend to stick...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 8, 2020 | Harmful Algal Blooms, Press
Originally published in The News-Press by Amy Bennett-Williams on January 8, 2020 Just in time for the height of tourist season, patchy slicks of blue-green algae are showing up in the Caloosahatchee, including at one of the river’s popular access points, the Davis...
