{"id":212728,"date":"2026-03-31T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212728\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:50:08","slug":"town-investigating-4-properties-related-to-recent-fish-kill-beach-talk-radio-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212728\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Investigating 4 Properties Related to Recent Fish Kill &#8211; Beach Talk Radio News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/property-one-Small.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/property-one-Small.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"property one (Small)\"\/><\/a>            <\/p>\n<p>Back on Friday, April 13th, piles of dead fish were found in and around Buccanear Lagoon on the south end of Fort Myers Beach. 5 days later the town determined the cause was low oxygen levels in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Now, four vacant properties in the area of the fish kill are being investigated for possible runoff which may have contributed to the fish kill. The addresses under investigation are 7821 Buccaneer Road, 8039 Lagoon Road, 8061 Lagoon Road and 8153 Lagoon Road. This is an ongoing investigation started this week by the town which has also notified the Department of Environmental Protection and the Florida Department of Health,<\/p>\n<p>The town is investigating whether pesticides, materials from sewers, or dirt from the properties migrated into the water leading to hundreds of fish winding up dead only in that area.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dead-fish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"772\" height=\"415\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, town code enforcement officers reported that they were unable to obtain photos pertaining to the dirt migration into the water based on access to the properties they had by land and they may need to schedule visits by boat.<\/p>\n<p>Back on April 18th, Fort Myers Beach Environmental Project Manager Chadd Chustz said, \u201cLow oxygen levels in marine environments are frequently caused by nutrients entering local waterways through fertilizer runoff from surrounding properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Local journalism is hard work. If you appreciate the most in-depth reporting on Fort Myers Beach, please support what we do\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/beachtalkradionews.com\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/beachtalkradionews.com\/donate\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1774964344005000&amp;usg=AOvVaw00rzjfvWz5Gt1cbei1EL6g\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0by Venmo, Zell or PayPal. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back on Friday, April 13th, piles of dead fish were found in and around Buccanear Lagoon on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,8660],"class_list":{"0":"post-212728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-email1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}