It's fresh lake water. We don't even want it in our coastal estuaries as if it's clean because it's fresh and we're saltwater estuaries. But We especially don't want it when it's filled with way too high levels of phosphorus and nitrogen that create the conditions for toxic algal blooms. And we definitely don't want it when the lake is covered in toxic algal blooms like it is quite often most summers and then they dump those literal toxic algal blooms already established, already formed into our coastal estuaries. (07:51–08:00)
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Asserts that Lake Okeechobee water often contains high levels of phosphorus and nitrogen, leading to toxic algal blooms.
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