According
to the USACE web site,
Last
week, field crews resampled 74 of the 154 annual
mapping grid cells that had SAV prior to TS Fay. Plants were still
present at all but 3 cells. These 3 cells had very sparse plants
initially and the lack of plants in the post sampling may be due to patchiness
and not to wind and wave effects. Crews reported very little floating or
uprooted vegetation (submerged or emergent), and most of what was observed was
cattail that had been dead prior to the storm. No blooms or toxins were
present during either the July phytoplankton sampling or immediately following
TS Fay. A bloom was reported near Port Myacca
on 8/29, but a crew sent out today found no blooms in that area.
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