Eutrophication News

If you read French, here are a series of articles on Brittany's nitrate and algae issues.

Russian scientists beat the alarm – Russian rivers receive over 11 million tons of pollutants each year.

Seascale and Haverigg beaches could be closed to swimmers if their bathing water is too polluted under new tough water standards.

Gov. Chris Christie has nixed a state Senate bill that would have required the Ocean County Planning Board and Ocean County towns to develop a fee system for new development in the Barnegat Bay watershed.

TOMS RIVER, NJ — Stressed-out eelgrass meadows in Barnegat Bay and around the world may be in danger of renewed disease or population collapse, says professor Mark Campanella, a Montclair State University ecologist

PORTSMOUTH — While proponents of a delay in tougher Environmental Protection Agency limits on nitrogen discharged into the Great Bay estuary cite the need for additional scientific study, experts said Wednesday that action to mitigate pollution needs to start now.

Fueled by frustration over a still-ongoing reshaping of agricultural pollution regulations, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, represented by the Environmental Defense Center, filed a lawsuit against the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board last week claiming that the state agency — at least when it comes to ensuring a safe health standard for the water that runs off of irrigated ag land — isn’t doing its job.

There's a long way to go before the Chesapeake Bay complies with the new federal "pollution diet."

The future for New Zealand’s already ailing waterways looks murkier as a $435 million irrigation package potentially paves the way for 1 million more cows.

Lopez says as freshwater nutrients enter the lake, it's more than likely algae blooms will form and could be widespread.

A new campaign is promoting a relatively painless solution for helping the Chesapeake Bay: planting more flowers and shrubs and trees.

The Canning River could get a bit smelly if an algae bloom continues to worsen between Riverton and Cannington.



Read more: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/algae-blooms-creating-a-pongy-river-20110506-1eb70.html#ixzz1LyMPinYL

Every year, more than 90 companies across Florida pump the waste from about 100,000 septic tanks. Where does it all end up?

Anybody who thinks cutting back on the pollution of Barnegat Bay is a lot of extra work needs to think again.

GUWAHATI, May 5 – A multi-disciplinary study on the status of Deepor Beel and the threats it face could provide a key to conserving this important wetland. This was a point of agreement of two well-known scientists who visited the site recently.

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has announced plans to form a task force to study pollution from septic tanks and find a way to reduce their pollution.

RICHMOND, Va. — A report by a panel of scientists and environmentalists raises new questions about the ambitious plan to restore the Chesapeake Bay, including the effectiveness of tracking pollution-reduction goals and how climate change could alter in the bay's recovery effort.

Rotorua residents are being warned to keep an eye on the water quality of the region's lakes.

Another battle over Barnegat Bay is taking shape, one that has Ocean County officials and Gov. Chris Christie on opposite sides. In between is a dispute about development, land use and the validity of decades of research that says nitrogen compounds are to blame for the present state of the bay.