February 13, 2007
Water
management officials are expected to stop environmental releases from
The
tape grasses the releases were meant to save are already dead, said Terrie
Bates, assistant deputy director for water resources for the South Florida
Water Management District.
The
district has been doing light, trickle releases targeted at keeping salinity
levels so the saltwater/freshwater mix is low enough to keep tape grasses
alive.
But
Bates told
However,
the releases that keep the salinity at minimum levels at the county's Olga
water treatment plant will continue to protect drinking water, she said.