Runoff from Houston's 2016 Tax Day flood and 2017's Hurricane Harvey flood carried human waste onto coral reefs more than 100 miles offshore in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, according to a Rice University study.
"We were pretty shocked," said marine biologist Adrienne Correa, co-author of...
Houston Flooding Polluted Reefs More Than 100 Miles Offshore
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