All looks pretty good! Salinities are still higher than normal for some locations but no issues really. Oxygen looks fine and bacteria levels are low. Good times. WE WILL BE ADDING THE HIGH SCHOOL DATA BEGINNING TODAY. Washington High monitors Bayou Texar, West Florida monitors upper Perdido Bay, and Escambia will begin monitoring bayou Grande very soon. They do not sample weekly so will post their data once a month – beginning today!
FWC reported background levels of red tide near Gulf County in the panhandle, Sarasota, Charlotte, and Manatee counties in SW FL this week but no Karenia brevis was not detected anywhere else in the state.
No lionfish have been verified in the bay since the capture of one near Sherman’s Cove last week. UWF will be going out again this weekend.
The FWC Fish Kill Database is still down.
There has been concern about cases of Vibrio infection. We have posted an article about this bacteria which you can find at https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/escambiaco/2015/07/10/what-you-need-to-know-about-vibrio-bacteria-in-gulf-waters/
Health Advisories – 3 reported this month
Fish Kills – none to report this month
Red Tide – none to report this month
Inshore Lionfish – 1 was found near Ft. McRee and Sherman Cove in Big Lagoon
Here are the numbers…
Sep 25, 2015
FDEP Data
Body of Water Temp (F) Salinity (ppt) DO (mg/L) ENT ECHD
Floridatown 80 20.4 5.3 6
Blackwater River 77 2.7 7.8 96 (coliform)
Bayou Texar 84 20.9 6.6 4 Good
Bayou Chico no data
Bayou Grande no data
Lower Perdido Bay 80 22.2 nd 4
Upper Perdido Bay 83 17.4 nd 18 (coliform)
Wayside Gulf Breeze 81 26.4 nd 0
HIGH SCHOOL DATA
Washington High sampled Texar on Sep 1 and 15.
Water temperatures declined over those two weeks
Salinities were between 10 – 20 ppt
Dissolved oxygen read 3.8 mg/L at station #1 (12th avenue bridge) on Sep 1 but increased
Station #1 had high nitrogen levels all month (1400 – 1800 µg/L)
Stations #3, #4 (near Bayview Park) were 0 µg/L
There was a significant increase in phosphorus at #3 (Oyster Barn boat ramp) on Sep 1
There was a significant increase in chlorophyll a at #2 (Hyde Park road)
There was a significant decrease in water clarity in the bayou during September
West Florida sampled Upper Perdido Bay between Jan-Apr 2015 – no report so far this semester
Saw a significant decrease in total nitrogen in the spring
Saw a significant decrease in total phosphorus in the spring
Chlorophyll a was much higher in Jan than anytime during the spring
Escambia High – no report at this time
ENT – Enterococcus bacteria; an individual sample should not be more than 104 colonies / 100ml
Fecal Coliform – an individual sample should not be more than 800 colonies / 100ml of sample
DO – dissolved oxygen should be 3.0 mg/L or higher
ECHD – Escambia County Health Department (Enterococcus bacteria)
Good 0 – 35 colonies / 100ml
Moderate 36 – 104 colonies / 100ml
Poor +104 colonies / 100ml
FDEP – Florida Department of Environmental Protection
For more information on local water visit:
http://escambia.floridahealth.gov/programs-and-services/environmental-health/beaches/index.html
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