Putting in Place a Plan to Save Our Ponds Costly and Politically Tricky, Forum Hears
By CHRIS BURRELL
By the time anyone notices that a coastal pond or bay is choked with floating drifts of green algae, the events that caused it happened decades ago.
Nitrogen leaching from septic systems and runoff of pollutants from black-topped roadways and parking lots did their damage 20 or 30 years ago, said marine scientist Brian L. Howes, a professor at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
The Navy has taken a leasehold right for the duration of the war from the commonwealth of Massachusetts and others on th