The “Bringing Baffin Back” program by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s Harte Research Institute targets stormwater and water quality issues in Baffin Bay using nature-based solutions and community-driven efforts.
“All of these little blue lines are the creeks and streams that connect down through the watershed to Baffin Bay,” Athena Frasca, the program’s watershed restoration coordinator, said.
“Bringing Baffin Back” tackles bay pollution with nature-based solutions
Frasca explained that the institute has been involved in projects monitoring the water quality since 2013.
“And that research has pointed towards the watershed…around the bay, is being a source of both nutrients and bacterial pollution to the bay itself, and that has degraded the water quality,” Frasca said…