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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: Craig Quirolo. Timecode In: 00:00:26. Timecode out: 00:13:53. Notes: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; Reef Relief. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Dual-Channel Mono. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS FLORIDA KEYS NMS INTV WITH CRAIG QUIROLO DAT # 4 CQ = Craig Quirolo AC = Alex Chadwick birds in bg 0:27 cq My name is Craig Quirolo and i'm director of marine projects for reef relief 0:35 ac And would you give me a citation for the study--the thousand % increase, who did that study? 0:41 cq this study was conducted through the epa's water's quality program that concerns the fl keys nms and the findings? the findings are ...not official in that they had 15% more work to do on their l30 stations but we were told back in july ... he said that their preliminary findings were that the coral disease in the fl keys has increased at the rate of 1000% over the last year ... and this was a premature release ... 1:44 ac when you look at something like this and you think about the sanctuary program that's est and running how do you feel about the sanctuary. 1:53 cq well we... what we like to do is use the coral reef as our determination of what we're doing on land whether its proper or not proper. .. ( airplane) 2:14 cq the findings that we got from dr. porter bout the rapid increase of coral diseases and its relationship to the marine sanctuary is is rather interesting because we do have water quality programs however we like to use the state of the reef or the health of the reef to tell us whether we're doing the proper things on land as far as living in harmony with the coral reef and from all the signs that we've seen, the thousand % increase ... the bleaching that's taking place the rapid changing of our waters ... green rather than clear and blue we seem to be very concerned about the water quality program and we're hoping that they don't get involved in alot of bureaucracy in that there won't be any action that's taking place ... 3:05 cq for ex the city of key west pumps out 10,000 gallons of secondarily treated sewage into the marine sanctuary everyday and this is a great concern of ours. No talking, bird in bg 3:28 ac what more would you like to see the sanctuary doing? 3:33 cq we would like to see the sanctuary take a stronger role in the local water quality issues #1 we'd like to really se them endorsing cess-pit elimination program for the keys we'd like to see them endorse treatment that's needed for the fl keys we'd like to see them endorse advanced water treatment for the city of key west unfortunately this issue dealing with sewage is not very popular and we're finding that the sanctuary is trying to stay away from unpopular items such as sewage, sewer treatment plants and upgrading cess-pits so #1 weld like to see the sanctuary take more of an active role- and know its not very popular, we understand the politics involved in it yet because of the rapid decline of our corals we're up against the wall here, the second thing weI d like to do is stop the flooding of florida bay with the ag water uh which was started about six years ago in extreme proportions-¬ 4:45 cq we've found that the nutrient levels have increased that the water is turning greener. ..and we're finding that this water is actually increased the coral diseases on our reef to the extent that if we don't stop that flow of dirty water i don't see where the fl keys reefs are going to continue so we'd like to see the sanctuary take the unpopular role like we do and get to the heart of these problems and this takes alot of education... and really most of the problems assoc. with the coral reef are directly associated with human health conditions. I mean improving sewage treatment not only helps the reef, it keeps are waters cleaner for humans I mean these things go hand in ... (Notes truncated)
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- 26 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 26 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 26 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman