#Port Mayaca algae

[jthurlow]

Aerial Update SLR to LO 8-6-23

Ed’s comment when he came home from flight yesterday  was “not as bad as last time.” Today’s aerials were taken 8-6-23 around 1:30pm. One can see blue-green algae, along the eastern shoreline of Lake Okeechobee, but not as much in the C-44 canal. The St. Lucie River looks a bluer near Sewall’s Point- perhaps thanks to recent full moon tides and less rain runoff. Seagrass meadows covered in…

[tomorrowusa]

While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is gallivanting around the US telling people he wants to "make America Florida", his home state is veering from one disaster to another. In addition to a malaria outbreak and the worst citrus crop since the Great Depression, Lake Okeechobee is now at least 85% covered with blue-green algae.

According to the latest report from South Florida Water Management (SFWM), 85-90% of Lake Okeechobee is covered with blue-green algae blooms, with 13 of the 22 samples testing positive for microcystin toxins.

Mark Perry is executive director of the Florida Oceanographic Society.

This blue-green algae is gonna bloom and grow. We're seeing big blooms, over 400 square miles," Perry said. "We'll see it sooner and have longer duration, probably. That's unfortunate because, as you said, we're in the triple digits with the heat index and as the water's getting warmer, the warm water and sunlight conditions, those nutrients being in there is just going to continue to promote that algae to continue to bloom." According to SFWM, blooms the size of a basketball court were seen at Port Mayaca, with WPTV's news crew spotting dark green waters washing ashore. "It doesn't look good," Perry said.

That's for sure.

A climate-denying governor who constantly shouts "woke! woke! woke!" instead of working to mitigate Florida's problems is not the sort of president America needs.

[spanky606]

Regrann from @abcworldnewstonight - TOXIC BLOOM: Drone video above Port Mayaca, Florida, shows toxic green algae seeping from Lake Okeechobee towards the coast, a bloom causing health and business concerns – with Florida Governor Rick Scott issuing an emergency order for seven counties. #florida #fl #toxic #algae #bloom #health #environment #lake #drone #worldnewstonight - #regrann

[xaviermascarenas]

Went for the algae, stayed for the storm: (last photo) Heather Kulikauskas and Richard Brouwer photograph an incoming storm over Lake Okeechobee, while algae pools at the gates at Port Mayaca Lock and Dam, on Monday in Martin County. (For @tcpalm) #LakeO #LakeOkeechobee #Algae #sunset #storm #clouds (at Port Mayaca, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/Byl7aKQFpKX/?igshid=1cycrbr55czw

[chinawapz]

Three dogs played in a pond. Toxic algae killed them.

Three dogs played in a pond. Toxic algae killed them.

Green algae blooms at the Port Mayaca Lock and Dam on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee in July 2018. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) It took 15 minutes for the playdate to turn deadly. Melissa Martin and Denise Mintz’s three dogs — Abby, Izzy and Harpo — had spent Thursday evening romping in the mud and chasing their ball at a pond in Wilmington, N.C. The evening getaway was a welcome reprieve from the…

[inlinenewsstory]

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Manatees swam around in a blue-green algae covered river in Port Mayaca, Florida.

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[jthurlow]

Milky Atlantic to the C-43 Reservoir and Port Mayaca

C-43 Reservoir construction 9-2-23, EL Yesterday, September 2, 2023,  my husband Ed flew from Stuart to La Belle located along the Caloosahatchee River. I asked him to take some aerials of the C-43 Reservoir that although having some tribulations will one day will be similar, but larger, than the St. Lucie’s  C-44 Reservoir. Ed agreed and a took some interesting pictures. Ed also took some…

[jthurlow]

Dramatic Lake O Algae Aerial Videos S-308 - 7-12-23

Date taken: 7-12-23 at 1pm/Location S-308 and C-44 Port Mayaca, Lake Okeechobee, FL/Pilot Ed Lippisch. Three videos are included of the large cyanobacteria-blue green algae bloom off of S-308. S-308 opens into the C-44 (St. Lucie Canal leading into Stuart and out to St. Lucie Inlet.) This bloom waxes and wanes based on conditions but it “always there.” Nutrient pollution must be overcome. S-308…

[jthurlow]

Lake O SLR Algae Aerial Update July 2023

These aerials were taken over Port Mayaca and the St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon by Ed Lippisch on 7-7-23 around 11:30am. The algae bloom on Lake Okeechobee has lessened compared to two weeks ago however, now Cyanobacteria can be seen clearly on the inside of S-308 at Port Mayaca, Lake Okeechobee. This is from boats coming through the locks from Lake Okeechobee at S-308 as the first two…

[jthurlow]

Ed's Visual Update 59 days after discharges begin

Documenting the Discharges 2023 These aerials were taken today, March 22, 2023, around 10:45 am. High tide crested at 11:09 am. Thank you to our eye in the sky and the apple of my eye, Ed Lippisch for consistently photographing the St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon. Also included is S-308 at Port Mayaca, Lake Okeechobee-checking for algae. We continue  to document the discharges. This year the…

[jthurlow]

28 Days After the Discharges~2021

28 Days After the Discharges~2021

Documenting the Discharges, Saturday, April 3, 2021. Since last week, the ACOE has lowered discharges to the St Lucie River from 500 cubic feet per second to 300. The lake is now down to 14.44 feet from over 16. Blue-green algae has been spotted in the C-44 canal near S-80 at St Lucie Locks and Dam. This canal connects Lake O to the St Lucie River and blue-green algae is always of concern as…

[jthurlow]

And the Rains Come Down; St Luice with No #LakeO

And the Rains Come Down; St Luice with No #LakeO

Ed, Scott, and I, part of your River Warrior team since 2013, continue to visually document the St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon by air.  Although due to algae at the gates of Port Mayaca the ACOE’s lake schedule has not  subjected the St Lucie River to Lake Okeechobee discharges since April 10, 2021, the rains and stormwater runoff from surrounding lands and canals C-23, C-24 are flowing. I…

[jthurlow]

Aerials 6-27-21 -St Lucie to Lake O

Aerials 6-27-21 -St Lucie to Lake O

Yesterday, Sunday, 6-27-21 -at 2:15 pm, my husband, Ed, took a flight over the St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon. In spite of significant local basin runoff, due to local rains, the river looked good. Flying west -Lake Okeechobee at Port Mayaca showed no visible signs of algae from 1000 feet, however also on 6-27-21, Mike Connor, Indian RiverKeeper reported cyanobacteria within and around Port…

[jthurlow]

LakeO Update Sunday, July 5, 2020

LakeO Update Sunday, July 5, 2020

Keeping up the Lake Okeechobee algae bloom documentation, Ed and I flew from Stuart to Lake Okeechobee during a hazy, hot high-noon, on Sunday, July 5, 2020. The algae was much toned down from our previous flights in June. Nonetheless, one could see the pattern, the outline, of the giant bloom from above. Rain may have disrupted its perk but the bloom remains in the water column. The most visual…

[jthurlow]

Eutrophic Lake Okeechobee

My husband, Ed Lippisch, flew today from Clewiston to Port Mayaca, 6-10-20, 9:30 am, and this was the view of all southern Lake Okeechobee: giant steaks of cyanobacteria also known as blue-green algae. Unfortunately, pictures such as these have become commonplace and definitely existed years before we realized the frequency or the accompanying scary health issues.

Algae was throughout lake…

[jthurlow]

Beautiful -But I See Some Algae at Port Mayaca...

Beautiful -But I See Some Algae at Port Mayaca…

Family friend Scott Kuhns is a great dentist, pilot, and photographer. For years, Scott has been one of our “eyes in the sky,” taking flight over the St Lucie River-Indian River Lagoon -and west out to Lake Okeechobee. 

Today, Sunday, May 3, 2020, before noon, Scott forwarded these striking photos. He wrote “I can see some algae at Port Mayaca.”

When I first reviewed the impressive photographs…