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This is why you don’t have safe water to swim in

Rachel Silverstein for The New Tropic writes: Going to the beach this summer has been pretty shitty. The Florida Department of Health’s Healthy Beaches Program has issued more than a dozen swimming advisories for popular beaches after finding unsafe levels of Enterococcus bacteria, a bacteria often associated with poop. Reaching its peak last week, swim advisories were […]

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Rachel Silverstein for The New Tropic writes: Going to the beach this summer has been pretty shitty. The Florida Department of Health’s Healthy Beaches Program has issued more than a dozen swimming advisories for popular beaches after finding unsafe levels of Enterococcus bacteria, a bacteria often associated with poop. Reaching its peak last week, swim advisories were simultaneously in effect for eight Miami-Dade beaches. Read full article here.

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