Leaky septic tanks and fertilizer runoff could be prevented to provide seagrass to manatees
By Hicbd
Mon Apr 11 2022 11:12 am
"Along Florida’s Atlantic coast, the die-off began last year, after the Indian River Lagoon, a 156-mile estuary that had been a seasonal manatee refuge, turned into a barren underwater desert. Decades of waste from leaky septic tanks and fertilizer runoff from farms and development fueled algal blooms that blocked the sunlight and choked the sea grass that manatees used to eat."
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