Sigh. Dredging is indeed a bandaid. 1) stop application of of all nonessential fertilizer, if you can't eat it, you get the idea. 2) set and enforce permit limits on nitrogen and phosphorus in reuse water, there are none currently. 3) tie in septic to sewer. These are in order of ease of implementation and cost. 1) no fertilizer costs nothing and can start now 2) wastewater plant upgrades a few 10s of millions, takes a decade. 3) septic to sewer, $15,000 x 90,000 units in Brevard alone. Good luck, decades, start with the worst first. None of this is rocket science, in fact it's pretty easy. Repeat sigh.

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Edited: 12/10/2019 at 05:44 PM by tom

I had a marine contractor out at my dock today for an estimate and I was talking to him about the water clarity. I mentioned that I saw the same dredger crew idling down my canal dumping snow shovels full of some white substance. He said that it could be Alum which attaches to the phosphorus and clears the water quickly. Any idea if this product was used during the Cocoa Beach dredging? Here's a link to Nat Geo that explains the substance.......Aluminum Sulfate
PS out C/R fishing behind CB high and caught a few healthy 14 to 16 inch trout. The water looks pretty nice.