Officials say water quality in the area is poor and swimming there could lead to an increased risk of illness.
) - The Mobile County Health Department has issued a swim advisory for Fowl River near Alabama 193 at the Pelican Reef Marina . Officials said water quality in the area is poor and swimming that could lead to an increased risk of illness.
According to the MCHD, bacterial concentrations in recreational waters can increase during and immediately following rainstorms because of overflowing sewage collection and treatment facilities, stormwater runoff and malfunctioning septic systems. Monitoring will continue, and the advisory will be lifted once bacterial counts fall below the Environmental Protection Agency’s threshold of 104 enterococcus organisms per 100 milliliters for marine waters.
The Alabama Department of Public Health and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management operate the bacteriological water quality monitoring and notification program under a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency’s BEACH Act Program. As part of this program, water samples from 25 coastal recreational sites in Mobile and Baldwin counties are routinely monitored for unsafe levels of bacteria.
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