IRLNews:NASA Report Considers How It Can Help Indian River Lagoon
With 140,000 acres of federal property that runs adjacent to the space center in Brevard County, NASA says its environmental services divisions at KSC are making lagoon health high priority.
The Indian River Lagoon Roundtable, a nonpartisan group that focuses on environmental issues, received a copy of the KSC Indian River Lagoon Health Initiative Plan Initial Release on Friday.
The plan calls for monitoring several aspects of lagoon health, from runoff caused by prescribed burns to wildlife and shoreline resiliency. The report says about 95% of seagrass coverage has been lost in KSC waters because of phytoplankton blooms since 2010.
The agency wants to figure out any sources of pollution inputs into the IRL, Mosquito Lagoon and Banana River from the space center, and how to reduce them.
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