Reply #16: Check out Thread 1695356, posted by Minstrel Boy [View All]

[Divernan]

Has story from Tampa Tribune reporter, headlined:
Diver in Gulf Report Zero things Alive.

This story is growing legs, as it should. Pinellas county has for years pumped its sewage into dried out wells, ie just into the ground. Florida has a limestone aquifer only 10 feet deep, so what goes down there has evidently started to come back out - into the ocean. Combine that with the red tide - from the description of the divers, if the coral has been killed, it will take decades to come back - and then only if the water was clean enough and the right temp to support growth. All those damn Florida developers have made their millions and can move off shore to some Caribbean Island. I wouldn't go in the waters off Pinellas County EVER. As someone said, for a few cents a flush Floridians could have saved those beaches - but no politician will run on a raise-the-water rates-save-the-environment platform