An 'unknown green sludge' is haunting local residents.
An "unknown green sludge" is haunting local residents.An "unknown green sludge" is haunting local residents.Hurricane Ian may be gone, but it has left a big mark on Florida's environment, haunting residents., there have been at least 20 reports of "environmentally hazardous issues" likely spurred by Hurricane Ian's landfall between September 28 and October 2.
"In Sarasota Bay, normally this time of year the water is beautiful blue-green, gorgeous," Dave Tomasko, executive director of the. But after the storm? He says it "looks like root beer, smells like dead fish rolled into compost."Further inland at the apartment complex where the sludge was first seen, the stench is reportedly so bad that it pervades even indoors, causing at least one resident to leave due to breathing problems.
As he collects water samples across Florida's coast, Tomasko worries that the already depleting oxygen levels in the bottom of layers of water could culminate in an "oxygen crash," like in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley in 2004, when there was no oxygen for "up to 100 miles upstream for about three months.""We don't know how resilient our systems are gonna be," he added.
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