Baykeeper senior scientist Jon Rosenfield says nutrients released into the water from the 40 waste water treatment plants around the Bay Area are super charging the algae to reproduce in huge quantities.
“(They) are constantly dumping treated waste water effluent into the bay. That is what they are supposed to do, that is how they are designed to work. But they don’t pull out the nutrients in that water – the nitrogen and the phosphorous. And that’s food for all the algae of the bay,” explains Rosenfield.
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