There was yet again a heavy rain event in the area and the bacteria loads in Bayou Texar have initiated yet another health advisory for that body of water. Equipment malfunction kept FDEP from sampling the other bayous but there could be a strong assumption that the bacterial loads are high in both Bayou Chico and Bayou Grande as well. At the time of this writing the FWC Red Tide report for the week has not come out. We will update all as soon as we know.

 

HEALTH ADVISORY for the Pensacola Bay area:

Bayou Texar

 

FWC’s RED TIDE report for this week.

No report yet

 

IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH RED TIDE AND WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE WE HAVE POSTED A SHORT ARTICLE ON OUR WEBSITE

https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/escambiaco/2015/10/31/its-happening-red-tide/

FISH KILLS for Escambia and Santa Rosa counties

No fish kills have been reported for Escambia and Santa Rosa counties during the month of November.

 

UWF INSHORE LIONFISH SURVEY:

No report from the UWF team this week

 

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/

Here are the numbers…

 

Nov 1, 2015

 

FDEP Data

Body of Water Temp (F) Salinity (ppt) DO (mg/L) ENT ECHD

Floridatown no data nd nd 26

Blackwater River nd nd nd 450 (coliform)

Bayou Texar 76 10.5 6.4 730 POOR

Bayou Chico nd nd nd nd

Bayou Grande nd nd nd nd

Lower Perdido Bay 76 18.7 nd 12

Upper Perdido Bay 77 9.1 nd 27 (coliform)

Wayside Gulf Breeze no data

 

HIGH SCHOOL DATA – FOR OCTOBER

Washington High sampled Texar on Oct 14.

 

Station DO (mg/L) TN (ppm) TP (ppm) Chlorophyll a (ppm)

12^th Ave

Bridge 5.9 600 90 1.2

Hyde Park

Road 7.7 200 120 11.4

Oyster Barn

Boat Ramp 8.3 100 0 12.7

Bayview

Park 8.6 200 120 15.9

 

West Florida sampled Upper Perdido Bay – no report so far this semester

 

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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