(Florida Today, Nov 29, 2020)
The St. Johns River Water Management District and partner organizations continue receiving reports of fish kills in the Indian River Lagoon from the past few days. Areas of concern are centered near State Road 528, near Williams’ home, and State Road 520.
Mike Conner is executive director of Indian Riverkeeper, which tackles environmental issues along the estuary’s 156-mile length from New Smyrna Beach to Jupiter Inlet. He said suffocating, single-celled algae have proliferated for months in separate blooms with “totally different colorations” across the Cocoa-Merritt Island area — the Banana River is green, while the Indian River looks brown.
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