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An offshore stormwater pipeline system will combine and replace two outfalls along Front Beach Road in Panama City Beach.
The shorelines in both Panama City Beach, Florida and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina are lined with high-rise condos and hotels, amusement parks and gift shops.
Soon the two tourist towns will manage stormwater in a similar way.
The same engineers that built offshore stormwater pipelines in Myrtle Beach are designing a system in Panama City Beach. Builders plan to install the offshore pipeline a few feet below the sea floor, where it will extend 1,500 feet out into the Gulf of Mexico. The outfall will release treated stormwater into the ocean, dispersing it in the salt water away from the shoreline.
Expansive Study Shows Seagrass Meadows Can Buffer Ocean Acidification
by Kat Kerlin
March 31, 2021
Spanning six years and seven seagrass meadows along the California coast, a paper from the University of California, Davis, is the most extensive study yet of how seagrasses can buffer ocean acidification.
The study, published today in the journal Global Change Biology, found that these unsung ecosystems can alleviate low pH, or more acidic, conditions for extended periods of time, even at night in the absence of photosynthesis. It found the grasses can reduce local acidity by up to 30 percent.
“This buffering temporarily brings seagrass environments back to preindustrial pH conditions, like what the ocean might have experienced around the year 1750,” said co-author Tessa Hill, a UC Davis professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Bodega Marine Laboratory.
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