INDIAN RIVER LAGOON

ORCA's Kilroy™ monitoring networks - the first of which is currently being deployed in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon - are designed to track environmental toxin producers (including red tides responsible for paralytic shellfish poisoning), invasive species, and watershed pollution threatening public health, fisheries, and other ocean resources.

Kilroy’s design leads directly to more effective watershed conservation action plans. Under our regulatory system, using laws already on the books, a scientifically accurate, legally defensible description of the causes of pollution will mandate a solution to the problem.

Over the past year, ORCA has been working to develop partnerships within the State of Florida. ORCA is working collaboratively at both government and non-profit levels to develop three conservation case studies where hand sampling and the inability to pinpoint the sources of pollution, have led to dramatically decreased water quality that visibly threatens marine life in the Indian River Lagoon; a cherished, EPA designated Estuary of National Significance.