Ed’s comment when he came home from flight yesterday was “not as bad as last time.”
Today’s aerials were taken 8-6-23 around 1:30pm. One can see blue-green algae, along the eastern shoreline of Lake Okeechobee, but not as much in the C-44 canal.
The St. Lucie River looks a bluer near Sewall’s Point- perhaps thanks to recent full moon tides and less rain runoff. Seagrass meadows covered in increasing a cyanobacteria and macro algae are visible. The seagrass is returning, but not in as good a shape, after massive and longterm Lake O discharges in 2018, 2016, and 2013 and decades of destruction.
Ed and I continue to be your “eye in the sky” and Todd is helping all of us keep an eyeonlakeo now at 15.30 feet according to the SFWMD. Hurricane season should start ramping up. It is not a good situation. More water should be able to be sent south as God intended.
~Lake O, Rim Canal, and C-44 at Port Mayaca’s S-308
~St. Lucie River-Indian River Lagoon. Sewall’s Point divides these waters.
~Note seagrass beds in next two photos. Once 700 acres now much less and impaired. Good to see it in any case!
Why was the S-80 spillway open all yesterday? They were dumping lake water in the C44 canal all last week. Then they opened S-80 yesterday. It’s closed today. You can see the plume in one of the pics.
Hmmm I will ask my brother about this. I did not think S=80 was open but maybe it was for some reason. It should not be.
you are right. I posted a message on Facebook from my brother on this. I have ask the ACOE. I will let you know what they say. thank you so much.
.
Are there lots of dead fish and manatees showing up again with all this algae?
No there are not.
THANKS ED,ED AND TODD..KEEP UP YOUR GREAT WORK.
UNK DALE
Thank you and we will!!!!