Top Florida wildlife official wants to fill, build on lagoon
By Tony DorisCourtesy of the Palm Beach Post Florida’s top appointed protector of wildlife wants to make millions by dredging up and filling in acres of the wildlife-filled Lake Worth Lagoon.Rodney Barreto, an influential lobbyist who chairs the Florida Fish and...
Stuck for answers: Muck trap to keep Lake Worth Lagoon clean doesn’t always work
A year-long study on the ability of a muck-collecting pit to keep sediment from choking the Lake Worth Lagoon found mixed results, leaving the embattled Palm Beach County estuary in a state of status quo.It was the first assessment of a unique experiment that began in...