Factoid/2012/01/02
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Ormond Beach's Seaweed - a Natural Part of the Beach Ecosystem
- "While it may stink for a couple of weeks, these blankets of rotting vegetation are good for the beach, Petersohn said. "We get lots of calls asking when are we going to clean it up, but we won't and never will," he said, explaining the vegetation not only traps sand helping to rebuild the shoreline, but it also contains seeds of plants that sprout in the dunes." - excerpt from article in the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
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