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Un-bill-ieveable Boat Patrol Rescue! Ransom Everglades Students Help Injured Pelican
March 4, 2019
On Sunday, March 3, 2019, Miami Waterkeeper and Ransom Everglades School conducted a monthly Boat Patrol. The patrol traveled up the Gables Waterway while our Miami Waterkeeper, Rachel Silverstein, discussed the importance of living shorelines with students. Living shorelines provide important wildlife habitat and also build our waterfront’s resilience to storm surge and sea level rise.
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Miami Waterkeeper and Facebook Join Forces!
March 3, 2019
We were so honored join Facebook for the launch party of their gorgeous new office – overlooking Biscayne Bay! Thank you for highlighting our mission to ensure access to swimmable, fishable, and drinkable water. We discussed our programs with event attendees, gave tips on recycling, tested water, decorated #baydrift cards, and showed some examples of trash collected
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City of Miami Will No Longer Use Round Up!
February 28, 2019
This morning, February 28th, the Miami Waterkeeper team provided comments at City Hall in support of a City of Miami resolution that would ban the use of herbicides containing the ingredient glyphosate. In the last year, the City of Miami used almost 5,000 gallons of herbicide containing glyphosate on city property. To address this problem, Commissioner Ken
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A Warm Welcome to Carla Lovinsky!
February 28, 2019
Join Miami Waterkeeper in welcoming our new office manager, Carla Lovinsky! Carla joined our team in November 2018, and we’re very excited to be working with her! Carla was born and raised in Miami. She received her bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. Carla comes to
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Counting Down our Top 10 #WaterWins for 2018!
December 28, 2018
As 2018 winds town, we are feeling thankful for our amazing community who has supported our mission and been partners with us in an incredible year. We launched four new programs, added to our amazing team, and had a year of #waterwins across our outreach, advocacy and research platforms. Join us in a countdown of
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Dredging Déjà vu
November 27, 2018
Miami’s reefs are in dire need of protection from being dredged again – AGAIN! Yes, that’s right, we’re as shocked as you are. We recently announced that our efforts secured the restoration of 10,000 threatened corals following the PortMiami Dredging – a huge victory for our reefs. But, what we didn’t know was that the
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#WaterWins: Plastic Straw Bans Pick up Steam
November 12, 2018
Pollution from discarded single-use plastics poses a major threat to wildlife and leaves our beaches littered with trash. A portion of that trash is made up of single-use plastic straws and stirrers that do not naturally break down. Plastic straws and stirrers are small enough to be accidentally ingested by wildlife and, rather than break
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Bay Day 2018 Crest Sponsor: Biscayne Bank!
October 4, 2018
Thank you to our crest sponsor- Biscayne Bank! Miami Waterkeeper would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Biscayne Bank for being our crest sponsors for our upcoming event, Bay Day. Biscayne Bank is located in Miami with offices in Coconut Grove, Doral, South Miami, and Bayshore. They have a very big commitment to
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Bay Day 2018
September 20, 2018
Celebrate Biscayne Bay with us! Saturday, October 20th from 10 – 4. Bay Day to benefit Miami Waterkeeper, presented nationally by Toyota, is a Waterkeeper Alliance SPLASH series event Miami Waterkeeper is hosting our fourth annual “Bay Day” at Shake-a-Leg’s waterfront marina in Coconut Grove as its signature event for 2018. Fun for the whole family, we
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Port Everglades BioBlitz
September 20, 2018
Port of Miami was dredged starting in 2013 to create a deeper and wider port for updated shipping vessels. The sediment associated with this dredging impacted the health of nearly 250 acres of the Florida Reef Tract. Soon thereafter, the United States Army Corps of Engineers began plans to dredge at Port Everglades – located
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FPL’s Turkey Point Plant has Problems, and now FPL wants it to run even longer
August 24, 2018
FPL’s Turkey Point nuclear plant is contaminating Biscayne National Park, the Biscayne Aquifer (our primary source of drinking water) and filling nearby wetlands with salt. Despite the myriad of environmental and safety problems with the plant, and while currently engaged in corrective action that may or may not work, Florida Power and Light (FPL) is
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Community Solutions Program and Miami Waterkeeper, Unite!
August 21, 2018
Melva joined Miami Waterkeeper on August 6, 2018. As a Biologist for the Regional Directorate of Health Amazonas – Peru, Melva has experience monitoring water quality to prevent risks to public health and educating the community and key stakeholders on water disinfection methods in her country, Peru. Join Miami Waterkeeper in welcoming Melva Rosa Gil
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