It's a big reason officials are now looking to supplement the city’s surface water supply by tapping the brackish Floridan Aquifer. Using the stable but saltier groundwater from the aquifer means ...

Specifically, Virginia’s Administrative Code lists turbidity as a substance requiring control when turbidity contravenes established standards, interferes directly or indirectly with designated ...

Powerful turbidity currents driven by dense basal layers. Nature Communications, 2018; 9 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06254-6 ...

The goo makes the water denser and heavier. Then the goo-filled water flows downhill picking up speed until it becomes a turbidity current. Laboratory sized turbidity currents. Cool, not dangerous.

Knowing this tendency toward turbidity, the Ashokan’s original engineers created two basins in the reservoir — the only one of the 19 reservoirs that NYC owns and operates with two catchments.

Using high tech gadgetry to monitor compliance and damage is nothing new to Reef Rescue. Last year the group purchased its own turbidity meter so it could perform its own tests on water samples.