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Browse or search for documents, studies and links pertaining to Southwest Florida water quality issues.
Popular Categories: Water Quality Monitoring • Harmful Algal Bloom Research
- Calusa Waterkeeper on Water Reporter
- CHNEP Water Atlas
- FWC Red Tide Current Status Map
- MacVicar Current South Florida Water Management Status
- NOAA Red Tide Conditions Report
- SCCF RECON
- SFWMD DBHYDRO
- USACE Water Management Graphical Plots
- USGS Monitor at Franklin Lock
- USACE SFL Water Flow Daily Averages Map
- Guidelines for Sampling Fecal Bacteria in Surface Waters
- Nutrient Source Tracking of Dissolved Nitrate by Isotopes Ratio Mass Spectroscopy (IRMS)
- A Brief Discussion of Lake Okeechobee Pollution
- The Impact of Water Quality on Florida’s Home Values
- UF Water Institute Report to Inform LOSOM Development
- Harmful Algal Bloom Red Tide Task Force Comments
- Socio-Economic Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms in Southwest Florida in 2018
- HAB Toxin Citations
- Holding States Accountable for Harmful Algal Blooms: Florida's Water Crisis in Focus
- Cyanobacteria blooms and non-alcoholic liver disease
- Blue green algal (cyanobacterial) toxins, surface drinking water, and liver cancer in Florida
- Response to LORS Deviation to Address HABs Cyanotoxin Analyses of Water Releases from Lake Okeechobee
- Are Harmful Algal Blooms Becoming the Greatest Inland Water Quality Threat to Public Health and Aquatic Ecosystems?
- EPA Recommended Human Health Recreational Ambient Water Quality Criteria or Swimming Advisories for Microcystins and Cylindrospermopsin
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Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
- A Brief Discussion of Lake Okeechobee Pollution
- Airborne algae and cyanobacteria. (1989).
- Allergenicity of airborne cyanobacteria Phormidium fragile and Nostoc muscorum. (2006).
- Clean Coastal Waters: Understanding and Reducing the Effects of Nutrient Pollution
- EPA Fourth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule
- Harmful Algal Blooms in Coastal Waters of Lee County, FL, June 2006
- Occurrence of β-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) in ALS/PDC patients from Guam. (2004).
- Characterization of Aerosols Containing Microcystin
- Airborne Algae: Their Present Status and Relevance
- Human Exposure to Cyanobacteria and BMAA
- Cyanobacterial Neurotoxin BMAA in ALS and Alzheimer’s Disease
- Cyanobacterial Blooms and the Occurrence of the Neurotoxin BMAA in South Florida Aquatic Food Webs
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Red Tide
- Harmful Algal Blooms and Coastal Business: Economic Consequences in Florida
- Harmful Algal Blooms in Coastal Waters of Lee County, FL, June 2006
- Harmful Algal Toxins of the Florida Red Tide Karenia Brevis: Natural Chemical Stressors in South Florida Coastal Ecosystems
- The Costs of Respiratory Illnesses Arising from Florida Gulf Coast Karenia Brevis Blooms
- Gastrointestinal Emergency Room Admissions and Florida Red Tide Blooms
- Harmful Algal Bloom Red Tide Task Force Comments
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Macroalgae
- Partial Summary Judgement on Endangered Species Act and USACE
- Faults of SB 712 - "Clean Waterways Act"
- Clean Water Act Section 404 Assumption Letter
- Notice of Intent to Develop a Policy on the Determination of a Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) and Hypoxia as an Event of National Significance in Freshwater Systems
- John Cassani Addresses Inaccuracies in Billy's Creek Workshop
- Calusa Waterkeeper Chiquita Lock Public Comments to USACE
- Calusa Waterkeeper Chiquita Lock Public Comments to FDEP 2 (2017)
- Calusa Waterkeeper Chiquita Lock Public Comments to FDEP 1 (2017)
- Chiquita Lock Position Paper
- Billy's Creek DNA Testing
- Calusa Waterkeeper Policy Planning Objectives - 2020
- City of Fort Myers & FDEP Consent Order
- CWK Ranger Handbook
- CWK Volunteer Ranger Manual
- A Beginner’s Guide to Bacteria
- A Beginner’s Guide to Fish Kills
- A Beginners Guide to Water Management – Nutrients
- A Beginners Guide to Water Management – Oxygen and Temperature
- A Beginners Guide to Water Management – The ABCs
- Clean Coastal Waters: Understanding and Reducing the Effects of Nutrient Pollution
- Exotic Fishes and Invertebrates of Southwest Florida
- How to Make a Secchi Disk
- 2019 Florida Fish Advisories
- 2021 Florida Fish Advisories
- EPA Recommended Human Health Recreational Ambient Water Quality Criteria or Swimming Advisories for Microcystins and Cylindrospermopsin
- Implementing the 2019 National Clean Water Act Section 304(a) Recommended Human Health Recreational Ambient Water Quality Criteria or Swimming Advisories for Microcystins and Cylindrospermopsin
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Federal
- EPA Fourth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule
- EPA Use of Microbial Source Tracking (MST) Tools in Waterborne Disease Outbreak Response
- NOAA Red Tide Conditions Report
- USACE Water Management Graphical Plots
- USGS Monitor at Franklin Lock
- USACE SFL Water Flow Daily Averages Map
- EPA Recommended Human Health Recreational Ambient Water Quality Criteria or Swimming Advisories for Microcystins and Cylindrospermopsin
- Implementing the 2019 National Clean Water Act Section 304(a) Recommended Human Health Recreational Ambient Water Quality Criteria or Swimming Advisories for Microcystins and Cylindrospermopsin
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State
- 2016 Progress Report for the Caloosahatchee Estuary Basin Management Action Plan
- 2017 Florida Fish Advisories
- 2019 Florida Fish Advisories
- Caloosahatchee River/Estuary Nutrient Issues Report, October 2005
- FDEP Contamination Locator Map
- FDEP Electronic Document Management System (OCULUS)
- FWC Red Tide Current Status Map
- MacVicar Current South Florida Water Management Status
- SFWMD DBHYDRO
- SFWMD Permit Records Search
- FDEP Wastewater Spill Database via Gatehouse Media
- Handbook of Florida Water Regulation
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Local
- Waterkeeper Alliance
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation
- 1000 Friends of Florida
- Audubon of Florida
- Audubon of Southwest Florida
- Audubon of Western Everglades
- Brain Chemistry Labs
- Bullsugar Alliance
- Calusa Nature Center
- Cape Coral Civic Association
- Cape Coral Friends of Wildlife