A new water quality report card for Biscayne Bay again delivers sobering news: pollution in the bay continues to worsen.
While the amount and location of the increase is not alarming, it does signal an ongoing trend for a bay once famed for gin-clear waters and now in danger of a tipping point. In recent years, millions have been poured into undoing the damage, but the clock is ticking and, with changing conditions like marine heat waves, intensifying hurricanes and increased development along its urban shores, time may be running out, researchers say.
According to results from the most recent report card, an enclosed section in the northern end of the bay, where water gets less circulation and is fed by the polluted Little River, is growing worse…