With the rains came low salinities and yet another health advisory for Bayou Texar. We have no sample data for Bayou’s Chico and Grande. Perdido Bay is fine.
RED TIDE
The red tide still persist along the southwest coast of Florida but the panhandle is fine.
FISH KILLS for Escambia and Santa Rosa counties
The single dead redfish from the last report is the only reported fish kill this month.
HEALTH ADVISORIES
BAYOU TEXAR – Enterococcus were 119 colonies / 100ml of water
WATER TEMPERATURES
With change in weather water temperatures went back into the 50’s °F
SALINITY
LOW… most locations are reporting lower salinity values that normal – rain
DISSOLVED OXYGEN
Normal for this time of year.
NUTRIENTS
No updates on nutrients this week. You can read about nutrients from 2015 from local waters in the 2015 Water Quality Report. Again, just let me know if you would like a copy. Roc1@ufl.edu
UWF INSHORE LIONFISH SURVEY:
UWF has not begun their lionfish surveys yet
Here are the numbers…
FDEP
Water Body Temp (F) Salinity (ppt) DO(mg/L) ENT bacteria count (colonies/100ml)
Texar 56 5.6 9.0 119
Chico –
Grande –
Low Perdido 49 9.8 11.8 4
Up Perdido 53 3.7 11.7 64 (fecal coliform/freshwater)
Gulf Breeze 51 10.2 11.4 2
ECHD
Bayou Texar – POOR
Sanders Beach / Bayou Chico – Good
EMSE – MARINE SCIENCE ACADEMY – TEXAR (Jan 15, 2016)
Station Total Nitrogen Total Phosphate Chlorophyll Turbidity (FIU
12th Ave – 1600 0.2 5
Hyde Park – 2600 4.2 0
Boat Ramp East – 1900 3.9 11
Dog Beach – 3000 7.1 17
FLORIDA MICROPLASTICS AWARENESS PROGRAM
Station Number of pieces of microplastic recorded Total
Chimney Park (14), (7) 21
Wayside Park @
Bayou Texar (17), (10) 27
Navy Point (20), (3), (5) 28
Mouth of Escambia
River (6) 6
Bay Fishing Bridge (3) 3
For more information on local water visit:
http://escambia.floridahealth.gov/programs-and-services/environmental-health/beaches/index.html
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