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Originally Posted by cmac2012
I'm gonna check that out. Sounds like my kind of food fight.
BTW, I just saw this item on my NYTimes on line thing -- comes to my e-mail, imagine that -- they have a "quotation of the day" feature and here it t'was:
"If we don't get light back to the plants on the bottom she'll be a giant muck hole. She could be dead this time next year."
SUSAN BAKER, campground manager for Okeechobee County, on the Lake Okeechobee ecosystem.
(!?!) I did a yahoo search on the lake and got a bunch of feel good, "Ya'all come see us now, y'heah!" kind of sites. I'm going to do some more searching later.
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I don't know about Okeechobee per se, but in any nutrient rich aquatic system if it becomes light-limited, you get a huge build-up of inorganic nutrients, oxygen depletion, and then anaerobic decomposition. Once things go anaerobic it kills all aquatic life that can't go elsewhere. Then it becomes extremely smelly.