Broward County, Florida\u00a0— A “tsunami” of seaweed is washing ashore on South Florida beaches, creating an unsightly problem and irritating both locals and visitors alike. The decaying matter causes a stench that lingers for days.<\/p>\n
The conditions are the same in Pompano Beach and up and down the coast.<\/p>\n
Trish Currin, a visitor from Austin, Texas, was sunbathing Tuesday but said she was avoiding the water due to “seaweed pikes along the shoreline”. Currin, who noted conditions were “perfect” during a previous visit in December, described the difference as “night and day”.<\/p>\n
“You don’t like it when it sticks to your leg,” Currin said. “When we saw what it was like, my husband didn’t even want to come to the beach”.<\/p>\n
In Pompano Beach, Commissioner Audrey Fesik, whose district includes the beach area, has received complaints from residents. Beach rakers bury the seaweed, but Fesik acknowledged it is a “never-ending task of trying to stay ahead of mounting seaweed,” noting that “12 hours it’s all back”.<\/p>\n
Fort Lauderdale Beach also uses beach raking, with careful attention not to disturb turtle nests. Some of the seaweed is scooped up and sent to a park where it is allowed to decompose and become rich soil, saving the city $100,000 a year in dumping fees. On the positive side, the seaweed mixed with sand helps with dune building, and some marine life feeds off the seaweed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broward County, Florida\u00a0— A “tsunami” of seaweed is washing ashore on South Florida beaches, creating an unsightly problem…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-303761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303761","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=303761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}