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Re: Opening the Mouth of the Mangrove--Playing with Mother Nature

Posted by Tim Edwards on February 25, 2015, 10:37 pm, in reply to "Opening the Mouth of the Mangrove--Playing with Mother Nature"
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There is another factor at play....... since there has been no bridge or culverts providing passage for the road, the earth road that is installed each year, or in the case of this year, several times, raised the level of the mangrove more than it does, say at Boca where there is not a "dam" erected to abnormally raise the level of the water. If there is a bridge, then the rains we have had this past season would have opened the mangrove sooner and more often and at lower water levels (more natural) and would also not have cut such a deep exit gash. This would have then filled back in sooner and provided a more natural ebb and flow of the water between these two ecosystems.
Additionally, this added road, which is a dirt, rock and gravel mixture gets washed out into the ocean and builds up at the mouth of the cut much more so than happens at Boca.

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