[farmfriend]

Nonetheless, current Everglades restoration plans, which call for a dramatic increase in the amount of this water released, do not call for reduction in nitrogen concentrations. Lapointe believes this could lead to even more devastation of South Florida reefs. "Based on this and other studies, it's clear we're going to have to reduce nitrogen inputs to Florida Bay if we're going to save downstream reefs in the Keys."

The next plan of assault.

[cogitator]

They've got to worry a lot more (first) about septic input into the waters directly adjacent to the Keys before they worry about nitrogen input into Florida Bay. As long as the mangroves stay in pretty good shape, they can filter a lot of that input.