Development Threatens 'The Forgotten Coast'

Development, growing populations, and increasing water demands are threatening a way of life along Florida's "forgotten coast."

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June 15, 2002, 10:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Water demands, from swelling populations as far north as Atlanta, threaten to suck up so much of the rivers that feed the bay that the very nature of the water will change becoming saltier, threatening its fragile ecosystem... As long as developers do not crowd the banks with condominiums and houses that spoil the quality of the water with leaching lawn fertilizer and oil-laced storm water from parking lots, the [oyster] beds will replenish themselves."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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Saturday, June 15, 2002 in The New York Times

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