In late July, Louisiana State University researchers found a hypoxic “dead zone” east of the Mississippi River, due south of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
A dead zone as big as the states of Rhode Island or Delaware was recently discovered just south of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.BILOXI, Miss. -
A hypoxic dead zone is an area of water that has low levels of dissolved oxygen and cannot support aquatic life. Here’s where the Mississippi Sound Coalition comes in... Through their work, combined with the LSU study, they’ve found that water primarily from the Mississippi River carries “nutrients” .
These nutrients come from farmland runoff in the 31 states upstream that feed into the Mississippi River basin. Those nutrients cause algae to “bloom.” When the algae dies, it sinks to the bottom, decomposes and uses up the oxygen.The coalition is hoping the science and data will urge lawmakers, community leaders and others to work toward solutions to chemical runoff from the Mississippi River that leads to algae blooms and dead zones.Debby washes road away from beneath family: ‘The car was down. It was going in the water.
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