{"id":2122,"date":"2008-03-15T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T21:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2008-03-15T14:41:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T21:41:55","slug":"environmentalists-blue-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2122","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalists&#8217; Blue Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/lagoon280.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/lagoon280.jpg','popup','width=280,height=185,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\/03\/lagoon280-tm.jpg\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Lagoon280\" \/><\/a>Ten years ago more than $57 million was spent restoring <strong>Batiquitos Lagoon<\/strong>, but now some are saying that &#8220;the natural beauty is hiding an ecological time bomb&#8221; according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080314-9999-1mc14lagoon.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you drive I-5 and look out over the east basin, you&#8217;ll see mud flats that historically haven&#8217;t been mud flats,&#8221; said <strong>Keith Merkel<\/strong>, principal ecologist for <strong>Merkel &#38; Associates<\/strong>. . . . &#8220;That will have to be dredged and removed,&#8221; said Merkel, who monitors the lagoon for the California Department of Fish and Game, which manages Batiquitos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When reading stories like this we&#8217;re always reminded of what one of writer <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0061129763%26tag=sacklunch%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0061129763%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">Edward Abbey&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/strong> characters<strong> <\/strong>might have said<strong>: <\/strong>There&#8217;s nothing you can do to that lagoon that&#8217;s going to mitigate the freeway that runs right through the middle of it.<strong><\/p>\n<p>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080314-9999-1mc14lagoon.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago more than $57 million was spent restoring Batiquitos Lagoon, but now some are saying that &#8220;the natural beauty is hiding an ecological time bomb&#8221; according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. &#8220;If you drive I-5 and look out over the east basin, you&#8217;ll see mud flats that historically haven&#8217;t been [&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":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}