A bunch of USGS gages along the St. Johns have the following message:

 

ATTENTION - Continuous temperature, specific conductance and dissolved oxygen data collection at this station will be discontinued on October 1, 2016, unless a new cooperating agency or alternative funding can be identified. If you have an interest in the collection of data at this gage, or are able to assist with funding beyond October 1, 2016, please contact Darrell Lambeth at dlambeth@usgs.gov.

 

 

USGS has been monitoring water quality at numerous sites along the St. Johns River with funding from the St. Johns River Water Management District.

That funding must have been pulled too.

 

 

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Water in Rockledge/Cocoa looks terrible. It had been looking decent.

It is now dark reddish brown, characteristic of Pyrodinium. Bioluminescence is vivid. I'd say it is reaching bloom concentrations.

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Floaters in the Banana River again today. Don't know how widespread.

Dissolved oxygen measured by a station at the 520 causeway in the Banana is showing a massive diurnal fluctuation for the last 30 days. Must have gotten pretty low last night.

 

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Edited: 08/05/2016 at 06:16 PM by scombrid

Green lawns brown lagoon.

Companies are laying down the juice right now here in Rockledge. Lots of St. Auggie looking super green. Don't get that deep color in mid summer without supplemental nitrogen.

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True that.  

One of my neighbors got "treated' for chinchbugs and boy did that lawn green up.

The "pros" are not on board with the (toothless) ban.

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Funny the spray tech sprays and then puts up the little pesticide warning sign and two days later the lawn is practically glowing green. That's some magic stuff.

 

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Edited: 08/15/2016 at 04:19 PM by SurferMic

I ride tropical trail up to crooked mile when I can after work and on weekends.  I get faint whiffs of bloom down toward the Mather's bridge area but not strong lately. 

Strong pyrodinium bloom on IRL in the Rockledge/Cocoa area. Very patchy but the patches are dense. Low intensity fish kill from at least River Ridge development to Cocoa Village today. There were hog chokers, sheepshead, and puffers gasping at the surface this morning at daybreak. This evening there's a funk in the air and scattered dead fish. Its mostly puffers but I saw a mix of other species too with birds and dolphins picking off the weak that weren't quite dead yet.

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The river looked camo between Cocoa Beach and Merritt Island.

Some serious blooms springing up, let's just hope the stay sporadic.

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I was right.

it's not any better up north. i fished dummits cove and a little north of haulover on the IRL side the past two weeks. the water level is the lowest that i think i have ever seen in that area. on top of that i don't think i have ever seen so many tailing catfish. i got fooled a few times from a distance (in the morning) thinking it was reds, nope. tailing or not tailing, the catfish population is nuts. came across 4-5 reds the entire day in really skinny water. almost had one swim right into my kayak he was so consumed with feeding. i have almost stopped fishing anywhere south of haulover down to mathers over the past year. i'm sure there are pockets of clean water but finding them in a kayak isn't the best method but that's all i got. i remember the days of gin clear water, those were the days.....i hope those days come back.