Water quality is a concern for many in the Pensacola Bay area. Our bay has had many human induced stressors over the decades but “swimming alerts” or “health advisories” are of primary concern. Health advisories are issued… Read More
With the rain continuing to come – we continue to get reports of health advisories being issued. This week FDEP sampled 17 stations and only Chico and Grande had high enough levels to warrant an advisory. You can… Read More
As you can imagine with all of this rain, the bacteria levels are probably high in local waters. However, because of the bad weather agencies were not able to sample most locations. Bayou Texar was sampled by the… Read More
The Department of Health sampled both Bayou Texar and Sanders Beach and found bacteria levels high enough to issue a health advisory. No data was submitted for other bodies of water in the area. Date Location Water Temp… Read More
With this steady rain, samples were collected from 13 locations this week. Only Bayou’s Texar and Chico had high enough bacteria levels to issue an health advisory. 2017 Date Location Water Temp (F) Salinity (ppt) Dissolved Oxygen (mg/L)… Read More
In 2016, Dr. Mike Lewis (U.S. EPA), Taylor Kirschenfeld (Escambia County Division of Water Quality and Land Management), and Traci Goodhart (West Florida Regional Planning Council) published an EPA document (EPA/600/R-16/169) entitled Environmental Quality of the Pensacola Bay… Read More
As expected after a heavy rain, the bacteria levels have increased in the local bayous. Bayou’s Chico, Texar, and Grande all had levels high enough to have health advisories issued. Enterococcus bacteria are found in the digestive tracts… Read More
Samples were collected for bacteria, nutrients, fish kills and red tide over the last week – there are no issues in the bay system this week. Below are health advisories for April – see all data for the… Read More
Many of us want an attractive lawn this season and recent warm weather encourages us to act now. Be cautious not to act too quickly with your fertilizer application. Despite warmer temperatures, it is still the recommendation to… Read More
Health Advisories – 0 FDEP only sampled one location this week – Bayou Texar – Enterococcus value was 18 colonies / 100ml of sample 9should not be over 104 colonies) Fish Kills – 0 FWC dis not report… Read More
