ST PETERSBURG The University of South Florida s College of Marine Science has retooled a computer model it uses to detect red tide to monitor the wastewater discharged from the Piney Point fertilizer plant site. It s showing how that contaminated water is diluting and discharging as it moves along the Bay and Gulf. So far, performance is matching the forecast.
USF researcher Bob Weisberg, who heads the Ocean Circulation Lab at USF, says the highest nutrient concentrations presently occur along the east side of lower Tampa Bay. The discharge water is sloshing back and forth with the tides, while slowly moving south from Port Manatee, diluting and eventually making its way to the Gulf of Mexico.
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