Brown tide is back in the GSB

[Bassknuckles]

It's a $hitty situation for sure. I know things got better when the breach opened after Sandy and all this rain we have had recently isn't helping. I'm no biologist but if you opened up the breach and get moving water in and out of the bay it's got to help.

Scientists: Great South Bay Off Long Island Suffering Through Most Intense Brown Tide In Years

It has become an annual troubling sight off Long Island and it's not getting any better.

newyork.cbslocal.com

 

[jpd]

LOL, but everyone's lawn looks great!

 

[Roccus7]

LOL, but everyone's lawn looks great!

And those septic tanks are leaking all those nutrients too!!

 

[Chinacat]

Read a much more detailed story from Newsday
So many variables involved
Just think how much added pressures on cesspools from people being at home during the pandemic and part time homes with bad systems being used full time

 

[Chinacat]

LOL, but everyone's lawn looks great!

Not mine
I live 1/4 from the bay and dump no fertilizer on my lawn

 

[george]

It's true that there are many vaiables. But the one constant is it's all self inflicted.

 

[Bassknuckles]

Ok nothing to do with the GSB but really we nee
d a warning on this-

CDC warns not to swim with diarrhea, but all Twitter can focus on is the gif the agency used | CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning against swimming with diarrhea this summer, and the visual it's using to give that warning is making quite a splash.

www.cnn.com

 

[jpd]

Ok nothing to do with the GSB but really we nee
d a warning on this-

CDC warns not to swim with diarrhea, but all Twitter can focus on is the gif the agency used | CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning against swimming with diarrhea this summer, and the visual it's using to give that warning is making quite a splash.

www.cnn.com

LOL, the GIF is a bit graphic lol