{"id":2031,"date":"2008-02-29T05:11:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2008-02-29T09:11:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T16:11:18","slug":"batiquitos-lagoon-drowning-in-muck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2031","title":{"rendered":"Batiquitos Lagoon Drowning In Muck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/20-41-082-28-08.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/20-41-082-28-08.jpg','popup','width=600,height=326,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/20-41-082-28-08-tm.jpg\" height=\"233\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20 41 082 28 08\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara Henry<\/strong> writes in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/29\/news\/top_stories\/20_41_082_28_08.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Day by day, a bit more muck and sand slides into Batiquitos Lagoon.<\/p>\n<p>To the east, San Marcos Creek pushes mud in. To the west, ocean waves shove piles of sand toward the lagoon&#8217;s mouth. And, from all sides, murky rainwater pours in during storms.<\/p>\n<p>Biologists who study the south Carlsbad lagoon and nature lovers who run the lagoon protection group say they&#8217;re worried about how quickly the sand and muck pile is accumulating, and whether that means a massive dredging operation will soon be required.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation won a nearly $75,000 grant from Carlsbad to study the topic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, we don&#8217;t really know how bad the situation is,&#8221; said Keith Merkel, one of the owners of a consulting company that has been doing bird and fish research at the lagoon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Planning to make a plan. Ah, government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/29\/news\/top_stories\/20_41_082_28_08.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Henry writes in the North County Times: Day by day, a bit more muck and sand slides into Batiquitos Lagoon. To the east, San Marcos Creek pushes mud in. To the west, ocean waves shove piles of sand toward the lagoon&#8217;s mouth. And, from all sides, murky rainwater pours in during storms. Biologists who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}