Bacteria advisories issued on beaches in Galveston

[Texasopa]

Don't go in the water....

 

http://www.khou.com/news/local/bacteria-advisories-issued-on-beaches-in-galveston-1/253141360

[PCWalton1]

Don't go in the water....

 

http://www.khou.com/news/local/bacteria-advisories-issued-on-beaches-in-galveston-1/253141360

 

“Typically after periods of heavy rains or any recreational or coastal area, rain water will wash cattle waste, pet waste and some sewage overflows into the gulf through rivers and streams and that will make the levels spike for typically a day or so,” Packard said.

 

Typical? for where? Texas? :rolleyes:

[rvsullivan]

“Typically after periods of heavy rains or any recreational or coastal area, rain water will wash cattle waste, pet waste and some sewage overflows into the gulf through rivers and streams and that will make the levels spike for typically a day or so,” Packard said.

 

Typical? for where? Texas? :rolleyes:

 

Everywhere in this country where runoff can enter larger bodies of water.

[ssb]

UPDATE (6/26/16 12:30 p.m.): UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE ................There are ZERO active beach water advisories in Galveston County. ALLl

52 Galveston County beach water testing SITES are advisory free. This includes all locations on Galveston

Island,

Bolivar Peninsula, and the Texas City “.

This is great news that again

reiterate

the fact that there is no reason for folks to cancel plans to

visit Galveston,” said

Lori FitzS

immons

-

Evans

, Galveston County Health District Air and Water Pollution

Services Program Director.

The Galveston

County Health District

, as part

of the Texas General Land Office

’s

Texas Beach

Watch program,

routinely test

s

52 locations along

Galveston and Bolivar beaches, including

a site on the

Texas City Dike.

When a test show

s

an

elevated level of the bacterial in

dicator Enterococci, the Beach

Watch programs issues an advisory for the beach adjacent to tha:)

Edited June 25, 2016 by ssb