Don't get too excited about being at the beach until you've seen this report
Don't get too excited about being at the beach until you've seen this report. What have we dung to our beaches, America? Passed in 1972, the Clean Water Act set the goal of" showed just how poopy a job our country has done in striving for this goal. The report revealed that over half of the 4,523 beaches tested in 2018"had potentially unsafe levels of fecal contamination on at least a day.
Not just contamination. But fecal or poop contamination. And not just fecal contamination. But potentially unsafe levels of fecal contamination. If this turns your resting beach face into a look of disgust, you may be justified. As you can imagine, poop in the water is not good. The only time poop in the water is good is if it is in a toilet bowl and you are not inside the toilet bowl. Poop contains lots of bacteria. Some of this bacteria can make you sick like certain strains ofThe analysis in the report defined"potentially unsafe levels" as poop bacterial as levels exceeding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Beach Action Value threshold.
If you think that simply staying away from dirty beaches and sticking to clean ones is the answer, just hold on, in the words of Wilson Phillips. First, take a look at the breakdown by region:
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