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糖心传媒’s Recommendations to Curb Phosphorus in the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

By Jonathan Webber
Conservation Campaign Manager
Published August 25, 2011
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After repeated violations of long-term phosphorus levels in the , 糖心传媒 has released recommendations to stop the further increase of this pollutant in one of Florida's special places.  and learn how 糖心传媒 is working to protect our water supply for people and the environment.

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  • Dedicate resources towards a stronger Best Management Practice (BMP) monitoring and enforcement effort. Pursue BMP rule changes to require more accountability and consistency of BMP implementation by individual farms.
  • Reconsider the current regime of Everglades Agricultural Area-wide averaged compliance in favor of compliance by individual farm or sub-basin. In the alternative, the 25% reduction below baseline compliance threshold should be raised significantly.
  • Enact BMP rule changes to increase reliance upon and requirements for the most effective BMP strategies, such as 鈥淪ediment Control鈥 BMPs that require more intense management of on-farm ditches and canals and 鈥淲ater Management鈥 BMPs that retain water on farms and reduce discharges.
  • Emphasize Source Control strategies that create smaller impoundments spread throughout 鈥渉ot spots鈥 and 鈥減roblem basins鈥 such as S5-A to retain waters with higher phosphorus loads in those basins for a head start on treatment before the water reaches Stormwater Treatment Areas.

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