This hasn’t been a normal summer at Trout Lake in East Vancouver. On a hot day, “normal” usually means the beach at the lake’s south end in John Hendry Park is filled with kids entering the water, ...
MATTAPOISETT — The town's most popular harvesting area, Shining Tides, which surrounds the mouth of the Mattapoisett River, is closed to shellfishing after routine testing last month revealed high ...
Santa Rosa officials are seeking the cause of high fecal bacteria counts found along a five-mile stretch of Santa Rosa Creek, a waterway whose banks are home to homeless people suspected to be among ...
The state Department of Health has closed Samish Bay temporarily due to high fecal coliform counts, halting commercial and recreational shellfish harvest. High bacteria counts were discovered as the ...
Some tributaries flowing into the Caloosahatchee River and Estero Bay are polluted with fecal coliform bacteria, with counts going well above criteria used to determine whether or not a beach is safe ...
Coliform Bacteria: Less than one total coliform organism per 100 ml of water. Non-coliform Bacteria: Concentrations less than 200 organisms per 100 ml of water considered acceptable as long as the ...
Beltzville Lake in Carbon County has reopened, just in time for the warm and sunny weekend. The lake in Franklin and Towamensing townships closed to swimming Wednesday after high bacterial counts were ...
The coliform counts in East False Creek are almost twice the level safe for swimming and wading in the water, tests show, with counts also inching up for Sunset Beach in English Bay. But Vancouver ...
Total Coliform (TC) count in Periyar River, a major source of drinking water for the region, has gone up by several hundred folds in the past eight years, raising questions on drinking water safety, ...