Poor Quality of Our Canal Water

The city had hired Jacob Engineering to study the poor quality of our canal water. One item was the reuse water from the wastewater plant. We use this reuse water on the golf course and other places. Jacob Engineering concluded it had negligible effect on the canal water quality.

In the past, I worked with Jacob Engineering and found them to be a good company, we should accept their assessment and go with that.

Instead, the city council chose to second guess the issue. They asked for more offshore water tests to help with further study.

The council needs to deal with the real problem...the lawn fertilizer. The current seasonal ordinance is ineffective and difficult to enforce. We need a total lawn fertilizer ban to keep the algae blooms from continuously occurring and depleting oxygen in our canal water. Then maybe, just maybe, nature will help us out and start to improve our water