5 minute freewrite Thursday prompt eco system

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This is my post for #freewriters Thursday prompt eco system hosted by @mariannewest

We call the Indian River a river but that is not what it is, it is a brackish water lagoon. Many years ago the Army Corp of Engineers dug an inlet opening the river to the ocean, This changed the eco system of the river. Mosquito Control dug levels around all of the mangrove swamps, this is where the juvenile fish grew up. There were big coves with rock bottoms that the small fish could hide from the bigger fish in. They filled the coves in so they could build a road. All of this changed the way the river had always been.

The last straw was when the State stopped all of the freshwater from entering the river. They would hold the freshwater back until we had a lot of rain, then they would dump it all into the river. By holding it back and having the inlet that let saltwater in, the salinity would raise. By them dumping the freshwater all at once it created an algae bloom and we would have fish kills. By doing this, they convinced the public that it was the freshwater and they needed to stop it from entering the river.

With the way the towns are growing in Florida, the State needs the freshwater. They built big lakes and pump it into them, treat it and sell it to housing developments.

It took a few years for the river to turn to all saltwater. When this happened another type of algae bloomed. This one killed thousands of fish, thousands of birds starved to death, the seagrass died, and manatees were eating what we call rolling grass but they could not digest it. It caused them to have a blockage, killing them. It killed oysters, and clams, and the entire eco system died.

All of this and if you ask anyone that does not make their living on the river what killed the river they will tell you freshwater. This same freshwater that the river has thrived in the river from the beginning of time.

Before man started messing with things this was the most beautiful place to fish, swim, or enjoy the day on the water. Not anymore.
photo is mine



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You are well informed and reality I wish you best of luck in the freewriter contest
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Thank you, I have made my living from the river for 37 years my husband has made his living from it for 55 years.

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This is a terrible thing to happen. It makes me sad t think of the damage done to the life in the river. People are changing the environment without any forethought. You should write this to the local newspaper.

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If I wrote to the papers they would think I was crazy, they believe that it was the freshwater that did it, the state knew how to get public opinion on their side and they did it well.

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What about the editorial column where you could voice your opinion? Your opinion should carry some weight as you have fished there and have the proof with photo of dead fish.

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This happened several years ago, I am not going to change the minds of what the state has told the people, they even have the media fooled. They are tricky on how they created the blooms when we had lots of rain and held it back and dumped it all at once so the people did not see what they were doing but I was fishing the area where the water comes into the river and could see it. The fishermen tried to tell them but of course, they do not want to hear it, they knew it would do this. Once that got the public on their side they knew they could hold the water back. They had to turn it to go up the St Johns river, people that live along it are now being flooded. The big courthouse complex has to have 6 huge pumps that run 24-7 to keep the water pumped or they would flood. Also, there were dead fish and birds washed up on the shore. They did the same thing to Biscayne Bay in Miami years ago. when Miami started growing they knew they need the water so they built canals to keep it from going into the bay, it killed all the seagrass and fish just like here. They did it to Tampa Bay, it used to have seagrass like was here but no more. Now that our area is growing, they did it to us. Water is important to towns and the state will kill anything to get it.

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It is a terrible thing that the environmentalist weren’t on this. Perhaps they were convinced it was alright to do. No wonder the ecosystem of the planet is in trouble.

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They are also dumping sand on our beaches, sand that does not belong there, and every time we have a storm it washes back into the ocean covering the reefs with sand, and killing them. How can they get away with this? All in the name of trying to save the condos and homes that they built along it. And not to mention the tourist love a clean beach, they put so much sand that it is a steep slope that keeps seaweed from staying on it, and it washes back to the ocean. When the seaweed would rot on the beach and wash back into the ocean this fed the sandfleas, since they started doing this we no longer have sandfleas. I think the environmentalists have been paid off by the state.

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Man thinks they know what is good for nature, and yes, they usually mess things up.
Even the so-called Environmental Protection Agency will mess up nature.

Good post.

!CTP

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They are the first ones to do it, follow the money trail and you will see who is to blame and housing and tourism are at the top,

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I am so sorry ... the facts are terrible and the grief must be worse ... nor is the price to be paid done, for eventually, things changed in that way sometimes violently revert...

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