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Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance reports mostly compliant Destin water-quality readings, expands education and restoration work
Summary
The Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance updated the City of Destin on its NPDES monitoring, reporting that City stations largely met FDEP numeric nutrient criteria for 2024 and describing outreach, volunteer monitoring and pollution-prevention programs.
Kayla Wingard, monitoring program manager for the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance, told the City of Destin City Council that the alliance’s monthly monitoring at six stations in the Destin area showed that, on average for 2024, total phosphorus, nitrogen and chlorophyll did not exceed Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) numeric nutrient criteria at the City of Destin stations.
Wingard said the alliance carries out monitoring, education, restoration and research across the watershed and partners with Northwest Florida State College, thousands of volunteers and local groups to run the NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge…
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