Comments on: Algae: A Slimy Solution to Improving Baltimore Harbor’s Water Quality http://blog.epa.gov/healthywaters/2012/06/algae-a-slimy-solution-to-improving-baltimore-harbor%e2%80%99s-water-quality/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=algae-a-slimy-solution-to-improving-baltimore-harbor%25e2%2580%2599s-water-quality Buzz about the Next Generation of Water Protection Tue, 14 May 2013 21:50:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anne http://blog.epa.gov/healthywaters/2012/06/algae-a-slimy-solution-to-improving-baltimore-harbor%e2%80%99s-water-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-47138 Anne Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:56:19 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/healthywaters/?p=2742#comment-47138 I hope it will work, but we have to take care, the algae could become a problem if we do not control it’s grow properly.

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]]> By: Phil Terry http://blog.epa.gov/healthywaters/2012/06/algae-a-slimy-solution-to-improving-baltimore-harbor%e2%80%99s-water-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-47109 Phil Terry Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:35:55 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/healthywaters/?p=2742#comment-47109 Interesting video

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]]> By: Kent Mountford http://blog.epa.gov/healthywaters/2012/06/algae-a-slimy-solution-to-improving-baltimore-harbor%e2%80%99s-water-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-47107 Kent Mountford Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:58:36 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/healthywaters/?p=2742#comment-47107 This relates more to EPA Region II, but since Reg III posted an interesting blog in 2011 (by Gwen Files Aug 18 ) on Trapa natans. After some years as EPA Senior Scientist at the Chesapeake Bay Program I’m very familiar with this invasive.

But here’s the mystery: I have a family ocean front cottage at Manasquan on the NJ Coast, 22 miles south of Sandy Hook. After beach nourishment about a decade ago, from some offshore sand pile I began finding Trapa “seed pods” on the beach, a few evey year, until Hurricane Irene/Lee last autumn, when erosion winnowed maybe a hundred out of the sands.

Where in tarnation did they all come from in an offshore sand deposit? I’ve checked all the “experts” I know and nobody has more than a mumbles response. ALL are deader than doornails, but still sharp enough “caltrops” you wouldn’t want to step on them.

Any ideas from my old EPA Region’s experts.

Kent mountford, PhD
Estuarine Ecologist and Environmental Historian

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