Myself and some other S Beaches property owners have filed for a state grant from the Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program/ IRL Council.
We are proposing a grant to extend the sewer lines all the way down to the inlet. Right now, county sewer service does not extend south past Publix. Lots of septic and small sewer plants from there south.
2 yrs ago, our proposal came in 2nd or 3rdplace. Last yr, no one applied for the grant. We are trying again this yr. This first section would get the lines just past the ponce park /archie carr reserve area. Hoping to get as far south as we can get. We are also in contact Brevard County Council member Trudy Infintini to see if we could waive or discount hookup fees. Its a long shot,





> Good afternoon: Thank you for submitting a project
> proposal for review and possible inclusion in the IRLNEP FY
> 2016-2017 Work Plan. It is now time to schedule your project
> proposal presentation before the IRLNEP Management Board
> Subcommittee (MBS). The date and location for your
> presentation is: DATE:
>
> February 2, 2016 Location:
>
> IRL Council
> 1235 Main St
> Sebastian, FL 32958 Attached to this message please find a
> PDF document with the time that you will need to appear
> before the MBS and present your submitted project proposal.
> Plan to arrive 15 minutes prior to your scheduled
> presentation. The IRL Council will provide a laptop
> and projector for your presentation. If you desire to use an
> electronic media presentation, bring a PowerPoint copy of
> your presentation on a CD or "thumb" drive. You will
> have a maximum of 10 minutes for your presentation, followed
> by 2 minutes of questions and answers with the review
> committee. Each presentation will be timed and stopped
> at the 10 minute limit, so please plan
> accordingly. This meeting is publicly noticed,
> and will be conducted "In The Sunshine". Thank you for your time and your
> efforts to keep the IRL one of America's outstanding
> waterways. B. Frank Sakuma, Jr.
> Chief Operating Officer - IRL Council
> Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program
> 1235 Main Street
> Sebastian, Florida 32958
> (321) 609-0868
> sakuma@irlcouncil.org
>

Good luck with that grant application. That is a great effort.

We need that throughout the watershed, even up on the uplands west of the lagoon.

Update from the automated monitoring sensors. The sensor in the Banana River Lagoon near 520 has read pH between 9 and 9.5 for the last 30 days. That is why the water looks like mustard in the worst bloom locations. The algae are pulling so much CO2 out of the water that the carbonates are precipitating and adding a milky backdrop to the color of the algae. Makes the water turn from brown to okre. IRL in Cocoa was pretty bad on Saturday.

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Great job on the grant application Matt, sorry I missed this post earlier.  

FWIW - there is a GIS based application, ArcNLET, that can be used to calculate nitrate transport from septic tanks to surface water.  Don't know what your access is but it could put some digits on how much of a load reduction your project would achieve.

 

And in other news, the bloom goes on  

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Wow! That image is saddening. And the water is chilly right now. Hate to see this summer.

Where can we see regular updates of this landsat?

I pulled that out of a SJRWMD update.

Landsat data are free here:  http://landsat.usgs.gov/

I confess that I don't use it so am not familiar.  

I played with the LandsatLook viewer for a bit, pretty fun,

but could not get the same image that SJRWMD has.

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I was there but could not find path 16 row 40

Total brownout in S Brevard now!

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heard the lockes from Okeechobee are open ???