Category: River Refugium Project

dead zone worse than forecast

Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone is basically New Jersey

Posted by:admin Posted On:9 Aug 2024

Let me open by apologizing to New Jersey. I know its a tired trope, and Jersey has been cleaned up in a substantial way….but hear me out. First off, it is an understood trope. Just saying Jersey makes most people

The Dead Zone movie poster with haunting picture of shadowy man standing at the edge of a grey stormy sea

2024: The Dead Zone

Posted by:admin Posted On:27 Jun 2024

Oh snap! You weren’t looking for a horror movie were you? Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Oh snap again! There is no good news here. There is something you should be horrified by though.


“just” Aquaponics

Posted by:admin Posted On:20 May 2024

or more correctly, an injustice to aquaponics. Its seems while laying out my case for the River Refugium Project, (which is a best use of aquaponics and an excellent way to improve aquatic ecosystem health), I may have inadvertently thrown


Explaining Dead Zones

Posted by:admin Posted On:26 Apr 2024

I have talked a lot about what I am trying to do with the River Refugium Project, and a little about the actual problem. To clearly illustrate what is happening so that the need for my system is understood, I


River Refugium Flow Chart

Posted by:admin Posted On:21 Apr 2024

This post will serve as a more visual description of the River Refugium process from a high level. Individual operations will vary according to nutrient density, local needs, value of crops locally, and other considerations. We start with our nutrient

using cotton to fix the environment

Using COTTON to fix the environment

Posted by:admin Posted On:14 Apr 2024

Seem like an improbability? Given the cold hard facts that cotton production uses massive amounts of water, requires heavy use of pesticides and herbicides, depends on intensive farming practices which are devastating to the soil, AND is a constant threat


The River Refugium Project

Posted by:admin Posted On:13 Apr 2024

While developing this idea of mine to reduce the dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and other river mouths by removing pollution in the form of excess nutrient from our river systems that is caused by run off from