Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring is monitoring the Piney Point environmental crisis.
AMITW is watching for how polluted, nutrient-rich water from a reservoir at the defunct Piney Point plant site is moving through Tampa Bay, said executive director Suzi Fox.
AMITW is a nonprofit focused on collecting data on sea turtles, listed as threatened and endangered in Florida, depending on the species.
The nonprofit also is keeping in contact with Manatee County and state officials, including at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
“The FWC is working closely with our partners regarding the Piney Point discharge response in Manatee County. The FDEP is the lead agency in response to this issue,” Amanda Nalley of the FWC’s Marine Fisheries Management division wrote April 7 in an email.
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