On 7/28/10 11:12 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:41:15 -0400, Harry
wrote:

On 7/27/10 10:03 PM, bpuharic wrote:
i used to. never went swimming there....used to be at the 'chesapeake
yachting center' on frog mortar creek, and locust point marina on elk
river....

washington post has an interesting article on sewage in chesapeake

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...=news-col-blog

makes me glad i now boat in new jersey (YES that's supposed to be
ironic!


Sad, but the Bay isn't alone in this. If you google "beach pollution"
and variants, you'll find a seemingly endless list of reports about
polluted waters, beaches, rivers, lakes, et cetera, in the United States.

Some of the beaches on the Gulf Coast of Florida have pollution at toxic
levels. The St. Johns River in Jacksonville has enormous algae blooms,
large fish kills, and acres of foam. That's the same river the Navy
polluted with PCBs. Yesterday, there was an oil spill of a million
gallons in Michigan and that oil is headed to the Great Lakes.

We Americans are not very good shepherds of our natural resources.

The Florida Department of Health tests beaches once a week. If you are
curious you can see how your beach is doing take a look. This is Lee
County but you can change the last part of this URL to any county.

http://esetappsdoh.doh.state.fl.us/i...spx?county=Lee

I also do a sample once a month in the Estero River. The trend is,
high numbers in the winter, low numbers in the summer. I blame it on
bad sewer plants in a couple trailer parks that have a significant
snow bird population. We busted one of them several years ago
triggered by my sample.


A good part of the problem around he agricultural run-off, decimation
of stands of forest, and storm sewer overflow.