, which establishes water quality standards in the Jacksonville area, has issued tens of thousands of permits for them over the past several decades.in the U.S., and Florida has more than 76,000 of them, covering an estimated area of nearly 260 square miles.from UF indicates they may in fact be delivering a net disservice by contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.
Another factor that determines how much C02 stormwater ponds emit is acidity, which lessens over time. “This is the first study that I know of that anybody has done to look at this in stormwater ponds. So I was really excited that Audrey [Goeckner, PhD student] worked on this and that she did such a great job with it,” she says. “It’s almost like now we’ve identified what’s going on, so now we need to get out there and do some research on how we can mitigate that a little bit.”For now, the St.