When: Thursday, October 21, 2021, 5:00-7:00 PM Where: Punta Gorda Isles Civic Association, 2001 Shreve St., Punta Gorda Who: Brandon Moody, Charlotte County Water Quality Manager and Nicole Iadevaia, Research & Outreach Manager, Coastal and Heartland National Estuary Partnership Hosted by: the PGI Civic Association and TEAM Punta Gorda This presentation will discuss the
Summer is over! Please join us for our first in-person membership meeting this year. Who: All fully-vaccinated EDC Members and Friends are welcome. Masks are optional. Where: Englewood Chamber of Commerce, 601 S. Indiana Ave, Englewood 34223 When: Wednesday, October 27 at 5:30 We will continue our series on Water: What is it Good For? –
Editorial by The Daily Sun, Aug 8, 2021 Top of Form OUR POSITION: We support the Charlotte County commissioners’ efforts to tweak the Army Corps of Engineers’ plan on where to send Lake Okeechobee’s runoff. We don’t want Lake Okeechobee’s toxic water. That’s a message we need to make clear. It wasn’t that long ago, 2017
By Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain, The New York Times, Aug. 9, 2021 Nations have delayed curbing their fossil-fuel emissions for so long that they can no longer stop global warming from intensifying over the next 30 years, though there is still a short window to prevent the most harrowing future, a major new United Nations scientific report has concluded.
By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida, Aug 3, 2021 SARASOTA — Gov. Ron DeSantis and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried made appearances Tuesday along the Gulf Coast, offering competing views about an ongoing toxic red-tide outbreak. Fried, the state agriculture commissioner, reiterated a call for DeSantis to declare a state of emergency to help
People suffered respiratory irritations from Venice to Lido Key By Steve Reilly, The Daily Sun Staff Writer, Aug 1, 2021 Englewood was hit hard with toxic red tide Sunday. “The fish were coming in steady streams, and you could smell them already in the parking lot,” said Jean Ranallo in an email Sunday morning. She
By Phyllis Wojcik, President, Charlotte County Environmental Caucus Brandon Moody, Water Quality Manager for Charlotte County, presented to the Charlotte County Environmental Caucus last night and mentioned some informative upcoming events for us to attend: Thursday, August 5th at 9:00 AM – US Army Corps of Engineers IDS 101 and Stakeholder Session: The Integrated Delivery
Please register by clicking HERE to attend this meeting, held virtually via ZOOM. We will discuss the FDEP hearing held on Aug. 25th in Lakeland FL for an application by The Mosaic Company to expand one of their gypstacks at the New Wales facility to accommodate increased storage of phosphogypsum. Phosphogypsum is the radioactive waste
By Betsy Calvert, Charlotte Daily Sun Staff Writer, July 20, 2021 Some Charlotte County commissioners are ready to scale the heights of federal permitting to dredge a new passage from the Manchester Waterway to Charlotte Harbor. “This is dysfunctional federal government,” said Commissioner Chris Constance, after listening to a summary of what 12 federal regulators
By Jonathan Scott Webber, Guest columnist, Tampa Bay Times, July 15, 2021 From Tampa Bay fish kills to manatee die-offs, put the blame where it belongs: on failed Tallahassee leadership. After the year we’ve had, many of us wish we could go back in time. But no one in Florida wants to go back to
By Julian Mark, Washington Post, July 12, 2021 When Glen Nguyen drove his boat out onto Tampa Bay on Sunday afternoon, he did not bother bringing his fishing rod. The 38-year-old St. Petersburg, Fla., native had cast lines into the bay since he was a child, but this weekend, all he could see was tragedy,
By Phyllis Wojcik, Charlotte County Environmental Caucus, June 14, 2021 Betty Staugler, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Harmful Algae Bloom liaison, Florida Sea Grant University of Florida and Nicole Iadevaia, Coastal & Heartland National Estuary Partnership (CHNEP) presented “Seagrass Trends in Charlotte Harbor: Current Findings and Ongoing Efforts” to the Charlotte County Commissioners at
On April 22nd, members of the Charlotte County Democratic Club honored Earth Day by picking up four bags of trash and debris from the roadside and ditches along Olean Blvd from Beacon St. to Kings Hwy. The Club services this road throughout the year as a participant in the “Adopt a Road” program, keeping Charlotte
The Englewood Democratic Club, the Democratic Environmental Caucus and Englewood Indivisibles came together to conduct an orderly and peaceful Earth Day demonstration around the phosphate mining issue in light of the Piney Point disaster, the effects of which are yet to be known. About 50 like minded citizens who want our waters to remain clean rallied
By Andy Mele, Sarasota environmental activist and Democrat Background: Piney Point in Manatee County, just south of Tampa, is a small mountain of waste phosphogypsum called a “gypstack,” with earthwork berm-retained lakes on top for settling out the waste phosphogypsum, and recycling the acidic process fluids used in fertilizer manufacturing. The current spill is just
By Betsy Calvert, Charlotte Sun Staff Writer, Apr 7, 2021 What happened? Stacks of waste water and phosphogypsum remain at the site of the defunct Piney Point phosphate plant mine in Bradenton. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency last Saturday after a significant leak of wastewater threatened to burst a system that
The Charlotte County Democratic Club (CCDC) will honor Earth Day on April 22 by removing trash on Olean Rd from Kings Hwy to Beacon St. Volunteers are welcome and supplies will be furnished. If you would like to join this event, please arrive at CCDC Headquarters located at 3596 Tamiami Trail, #102, Port Charlotte by
By Jesse Mendoza, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, USA TODAY NETWORK, April 3, 2021 As yet another potential environmental disaster connected to the former Piney Point fertilizer processing plant along Tampa Bay in Manatee County unfolds, questions about accountability for the repeated problems loom. Elected officials and regulators at both the local and state levels have long grappled
By Dr. Aaron Adams, published in the Boca Beacon, March 27,2021 What used to be an expansive seagrass flat, is now a mix of open sand and thick algae. The cancer of too many nutrients is spreading throughout Charlotte Harbor. This does not bode well for the long-term future of its legendary fisheries. I lived
Dr. Richard Whitman will review the status and trends of recreational water quality of Charlotte County beaches at the next monthly meeting of the Environmental Caucus on Tuesday, April 6th at 1:30 pm. – His presentation will point out specific concerns, the need for pollution source identification, more timely notification, increased advisory reliability, and examples
Editor’s note: Charlotte County comes in 5th amongst this ranking, worse than Sarasota County. The full report is available here. By Chad Gillis, Fort Myers News-Press, March 23, 2021 Coastal urbanization is the top factor driving pollution from the Tampa Bay area south to Collier County, and the water quality in many of those counties
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