America's Most Feces-Polluted Beaches, Mapped

[underpants]

Source: The Atlantic wire

There is nothing more refreshing on a hot, Fourth of July weekend than a nice dip in the ocean. Everyone loves a nice swim, after all, though that enthusiasm may be tempered by the fact that the EPA says a beach is safe for swimming if only one out of every 28 beachgoers gets sick. Here, as a public service, are the beaches that in 2012 upped those odds significantly.

Every year, the Natural Resources Defense Council compiles its "Testing the Waters" guide to the cleanliness of beaches on the coasts and the Great Lakes. And every year, the results vary: Some of our beaches are consistently pristine; others, very much not. We took the data from this year's survey (documenting 2012 testing) and made three maps of the most popular beaches. The first shows the NRDC's star ranking, which includes both test results and the notifications posted when a beach tests poorly. The second shows how often tests exceeded the national standard for allowable pollutants (which we'll describe more below). The third shows the change in that figure between 2011 and 2012. And the fourth shows how often those beaches are tested for contamination.

More than 80 percent of closings and advisories were issued because bacteria levels in beachwater exceeded public health standards, indicating the potential presence of human or animal waste in the water.

If a beach exceeded the national standard five percent of the time, that means that one out of every twenty samples had unhealthy levels of pollutants. Mostly fecal pollutants, that is.


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[oregonjen]

1. Having trouble with the link

[underpants]

3. Direct link (???)

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/07/americas-most-feces-polluted-beaches-mapped/66885/

[oregonjen]

5. Thanks!

[alfredo]

2. Myrtle Beach should be renamed Shit Beach.

[Fuddnik]

4. That's why they have golf courses.

[alfredo]

6. But wouldn't the shit eventually make it to the beaches?

[Gregorian]

7. 15 million new humans every week! It's going to get worse.

[ForeignandDomestic]

9. Oh my......

Humans are having babies.. the horror!

[awoke_in_2003]

12. It will be a horror soon enough...

if population growth doesn't slow down a bit.

[ForeignandDomestic]

13. ....

Everyone who wants to limit the earth's population and stop people from reproducing...

Should lead by example and kill themselves.... It's the right thing to do!

[southerncrone]

16. Go home Freeper Troll.

[Ash_F]

18. Careful, you'll get hid

Advocating suicide is ok on DU, but you can't call out people for trolling.

DU Logic, 2013.

[ForeignandDomestic]

19. No Freeper troll..

I'm actually pro choice even if that choice is people choosing to have kids...

There's nothing more fascist than humans attemting to deny other humans the right to reproduction, screams Hitlerian.

Maybe we should have a global China 1 child policy?

Eugenics is not a Liberal cause.

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[Gregorian]

21. Oh my, global warming. It's all so funny.

[ForeignandDomestic]

22. Go Ahead Lead by example!!!!!!!

Telling the families of those 15 million human beings born that they don't have that right is even funnier!!!!

[YOHABLO]

8. It's a shame the world has turned our oceans into toilets .. very gross indeed.

[The Second Stone]

11. The number of fish and shrimp pooping in the oceans makes the number of people

doing it seem small.

[Ash_F]

17. There is a difference. This is about high volumes in a small areas.

When cities dump huge amounts of sewage into one point, the contamination level goes up for the immediate area.

The fact that a lot of fish poop in the ocean isn't here nor there. The tests show heavy contamination at these locations.

[JoeyT]

10. I knew Edgewater was going to be on there.

I can remember pipes gushing all kinds of crap into the ocean when I was a little kid in the early 80s. I'm not 100% certain it was sewage, but everyone at Keesler was pretty convinced it was. Front Beach is there for the same reason.

Dauphin is on there because a good hunk of the island washes away every storm including sewage lines.

[blkmusclmachine]

14. .

[Heywood J]

20. What's almost funnier is that when

I showed this to someone, the reaction was to wonder why there weren't more map icons in the middle of the country - why there were no polluted beaches in places like Nebraska and Wyoming...

[Union Scribe]

23. Daaaaamn Wisconsin!

I thought cheese stopped people up

[flamingdem]

24. Sigh. Had to click this thread

but ewwww

[NickB79]

25. Swim AWAY from the floating hot dogs, kids!

I still have horrible memories of grabbing a long brown "thing" floating in the local lake when I was 8-9 yr old. It was NOT a hot dog

[mahina]

26. For us, Hanauma Bay and Kuhio Beach on Oahu has one thing in common.

There is no way the Hanauma Bay pollution comes from anything but disgusting people in the water.

YUCK.

Too many people!!

[Butterbean]

27. Myrtle Beach is nasty. Color me shocked.

When we were at Litchfield Plantation 3 weeks ago, a couple walking their dog on the beach walked by (where my children and their cousins were playing in the surf) and just let it crap all over the beach without bothering to pick it up. Dog crap everywhere. It was disgusting. I saw this a lot in the week we were there, people just letting their dogs crap all over the beach and not picking it up, and piles of dog crap all over the beach. Gross.

When I lived in SC, MB was where all the teenagers went for senior/prom weekend to go get drunk and rowdy on the cheap.