When the Mississippi river meets the gulf of Mexico.....

I saw on a Facebook post a photo that shows a clear line between bright blue water and dirty-looking green water, which the caption said shows that water from the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River don’t mix. Does this really happen?
Any photo can be created these days, but this photo is real, the fact checkers Snopes.com and TruthOrFiction.com report.
Images show an area of hypoxia or “dead zone” off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the summer of 2015, according to TruthOrFiction.com.
It was caused by high levels of nutrient runoff into the Mississippi River that left the water emptying into the Gulf of Mexico with high levels of nitrogen.
Those nitrogen levels cause overgrowth of algae and other vegetation that deplete much of the oxygen from the water and kills fish.
In 2015, when this image from a video was posted, dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico were “above average,” the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration stated:
“The largest previous Gulf of Mexico dead zone was in 2002, encompassing 8,497 square miles. The smallest recorded dead zone measured 15 square miles in 1988. The average size of the dead zone over the past five years has been about 5,500 square miles, nearly three times the 1,900-square-mile goal set by the Hypoxia Task Force in 2001 and reaffirmed in 2008.”
The average size of a dead zone is about 6,000 square miles, NOAA reports.





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