The entire ecosystem in the river died, we lost all of the seagrasses, had big algae blooms, and thousands of fish and birds died, manatees died and are still dying because they can not find enough to eat. The State "spun" it as they needed to stop the fresh water from entering the river because it was polluted. They would hold all of the freshwater back, then dump it all at once, knowing this would cause algae blooms and fish would die, me and other fishermen were on the river every day and saw what they were doing but they got the news to broadcast how the freshwater was killing the fish. They knew just what to do. We had a brackish water lagoon, the State cut inlets into it, they diked off all of the mangrove swamps where juvenile fish grew up and the last thing they did was cut off the freshwater from coming into it. In truth, the State needs the freshwater for all of these developments. Many years ago they did the same thing to the river in Miami My Dad used to fish down there and told me how Biscayne Bay had beautiful grass flats but after the State built dikes to stop the freshwater from flowing in, all of the seagrasses died and the same thing happened down there. Picture a brackish water fish tank and you only add saltwater to it. All of your fish and any live rock that is in there will die and you will get an algae bloom. It sickens me!!!