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chuck Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 889 Location: BLUFF
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:31 pm Post subject: Barney Davis Spillway dumping Brown Tide into Oso? |
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Drove past the spillway and it sure looked brown tinted, up in there.
My question is should the company that runs the power plant be allowed to pump in water from Laguna that has "issues" like brown or red tide and discharge it into Oso which might not be having those issues.
Never thought about it till today.
If so they could be damaging the grass beds in the upper Oso.
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wallhanger Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 765
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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The Oso has been brown most of my lifetime. |
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speckled.trout Full Grown Flour Bluffian
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, the power plant is drawing water from the Laguna and dumping it in the OSO. Did the same thing during the last Brown tide bloom in the '90s.
I'm sure it's damaging the grass in the OSO Bay cutting off the sunlight.
To think the OSO would be isolated from the bloom if not for the power plants discharge. hmmmmmmmm? I would think because of the lower salinity levels in the OSO the bloom won't last.....just my thoughts.
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fishinglady Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 857 Location: N. Padre Island
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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I wondered why the Oso got so brown so fast.
I had thought the brown tide would have had to go past NAS-CCAD or out the ICW into Corpus Christi Bay....and then get washed back into Oso. |
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chuck Member White Shrimper Boot Club
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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at first i thought it was run off from the heavy rains coming down the creek, but the foam is brown! |
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Big Jack Flour Bluffian in training
Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 268 Location: BODY OF CHRIST
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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Topaz Energy is the name of the company that oversees operations of the Barney Davis plant. Give 'em a call I'm sure they'll stop it if you ask. _________________ "Charlie Don't Surf" |
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