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Rice University: Houston Flooding Polluted Reefs More Than 100 Miles Offshore
April 07, 2021
HOUSTON, Texas, April 7 (TNSRes) -- Rice University issued the following news release:

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 the study in Frontiers in Marine Science. "One thing we alway . . .

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