U-S…that’s according to a new report by the National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration. Recent water sampling has found Naples Bay regularly violates the state’s copper standards…but the fact that it’s the third highest in the nation came as a surprise to local biologists. Studies have found water in most parts of coastal Southwest Florida with copper levels of about 200 parts per million. According to this report, Naples Bay had about 14-hundred parts per million in 2005, the most current year available. Aswani Volety is a professor of marine science at FGCU and chair of the department of marine and ecological sciences. He told WGCU’s Mike Kiniry there are two primary ways this natural element winds up in the water at such unnaturally high levels…
