The following organizations are members of START’s Water Quality Coalition:
The Barrier Island League, The Chiles Restaurant Group, Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast, Florida Food and water Watch, Hands Along the water, Now Or Neverglades, Progressive Water Resources, Inc, Sarasota Bay Watch, Sarasota League of Women Voters, Sierra Club, START and the Suncoast waterkeepers.
Contact Us for a list of the pending water quality bills in the Florida Legislature and the legislators who are reviewing them.
As you leaned in the lead article in last month’s E-newsletter, Sarasota Bay is ailing from excess nutrients from a variety of urban runoff sources. So much so, that the Department of Environmental Protection is expected to declare the Bay a “Nutrient Impaired” water body in 2020. This is a major threat to our tourism-based [...]
In December, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced in a press release, that they with partners were launching “Mission: Iconic Reefs”, a groundbreaking Florida Key Coral Reef restoration effort. The project, calls for restoring nearly three million square feet of the Florida Reef Tract, about the size of 52 football fields, one of the [...]
Start’s new Red Tide & You PowerPoint presentation has been attracting new audiences from Manatee County to Englewood. The presentation has been seen by service clubs like the Kiwanis Club on Longboat Key and the Rotary Club in Sarasota and neighborhood groups like Village Walk and Glenridge in Palmer Ranch. The people who have seen [...]
Servings: 8 Total Time: 30 minutes Ingredients 1 lb spaghetti pasta 1 lemon, for juice 2 tablespoons fresh Italian parsley, finely chopped 2 tablespoons fresh dill, finely chopped 1 (10-oz) container scampi finishing sauce 2 cups lobster meat (or cooked salad shrimp) 2 (8-oz) containers crab meat 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper Steps Bring a [...]
Current Conditions The red tide organism, Karenia brevis, was observed at background concentrations in one sample from Southwest Florida over the past week. Additional details are provided below. In Southwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was observed at background concentrations in Sarasota County. In Northwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was [...]
