Government officials, residents, business owners and environmental groups met for the second time Wednesday at City Hall to talk about the health of Naples Bay.
Photo by Garrett Hubbard, Daily News
Bri LeVigre and Brianna Giesel, both 15, on vacation from Illinois, take a photograph while on a narrated sightseeing tour through Naples Bay on the Double Sunshine Catamaran, which is equipped with an environmentally friendly diesel muffler and is washed with biodegradable soap.
The group is looking at the water quality of Naples Bay with an eye toward finding ways to clean up the bay.
The problem is rainwater that carries pesticides, fertilizers and heavy metals off roads, parking lots and yards.
The state Department of Environmental Protection and the city of Naples are taking water samples from the bay and the Gordon River for the next year.
The meetings are taking place as a 2008 deadline looms for creating a cleanup plan for pollutants that exceeds state standards.
Naples Natural Resources Manager Mike Bauer encouraged the group to send him ideas for what to do next. The group did not set a date for its next meeting.
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