What is Nutrients?

Nutrients is an important chemical that living organisms need to survive and grow.

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Type of Nutrients

Phosphorous is a chemical that is found in water and DNA. The access of phosphorus comes from rock minerals that eroded in the water.

Nitrogen is also another element that is found in water that is a colorless, odorless, tasteless.

Calcium is a chiemical element that is naturally found in the Earth abundance of calcium in water is its natural occurrence in the earth's crust that dissolves in water

 

Nutrient Pollution

 

Nutrient pollution: is the process where too many nutrients, mainly nitrogen and phosphorus, are added to bodies of water and can act like fertilizer, causing excessive growth of algae. Severe algal growth blocks light that is needed for plants, such as seagrasses, to grow. 

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Bill requires limits on nutrient pollution for Barnegat Bay

If bill S-2341 becomes law, the state Department of Environmental Protection would have one year to prepare a report on the impacts of excess nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment flowing into the bay and its tributary streams. Within two years, the department would need to develop pollution limits, called total maximum daily loads, to restore water quality in the bay.

 

The legislation is a tougher version of an earlier resolution, SR-85, from Environmental Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Smith, D-Middlesex, that only calls on DEP officials and their counterparts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to consider imposing daily load limits on the bay.

 

Resources 

<http://www.chesapeakebay.net/nutr1.htm>

<http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nutpollution.html>