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Originally Posted by Jimmy in Point Beach
And all the crap that comes with the runoff like lawn fertilizer, etc.
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always bums me out what happens to the manasquan river west of osborne island with just a little bit of rain, let alone a long rainy season. the rainwater hits warm pavement, parking lots, roads etc, is diverted into the drainage ditch and then a sewer and eventually dumps directly into the river picking up debris, road salt, lawn fertilizers along the way. ...does not have a chance to soak into the riparian soil and then filter/leach into the river basin as it should. by heat of summer you have a warmer river with lots of nitrogen and phosphates in it.. the algae blooms and thats that.. you get that opaque, green colored water (read:northern barneget bay) until cold weather comes back. some critters seem to do just fine in this water (crabs, nettles, blowfish, even weakfish) but others do not do so well. of course, standing on my relative's dock where there used to be a riparian zone on the bank observing all of this... I am part of the problem !.. east of osborne the daily tide flush seems to clear out most of this effect.. but as we saw in 2011.. the right winds and weather and the bloom expands out into the ocean and we get a green blob all the way out to 20 fathoms (and beyond, potentially) sorry for the rant *note I am not a tree hugger
