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Saturday, February 07, 2009
Environment - More on "Techniques that have dramatically reduced contamination at beaches in Racine, Wis."
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 5th, Gitte Laasby had a story yesterday in the Gary Post-Tribune that reported:
Gary and Porter beaches were among the cleanest public beaches in Northwest Indiana in 2008.For more information, see this IDEM page.Wells Street, Marquette Park and Lake Street beaches exceeded the allowable limit for E. coli bacteria only once each during the 2008 beach season, test data shows. * * *
The Indiana Dunes State Park and Hammond Marina's West beaches were also among the top six cleanest even though Indiana Dunes' east beach tested above the limit twice as often as in 2007.
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management presented the data at a Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission committee meeting Thursday.
The fine print is, the Gary beaches were only tested once a week. By comparison, Indiana Dunes State Park, Hammond and Whihala beaches were tested daily.
The results mirror the number of beach closures, but it generally takes a day to get E. coli test results, so local beach managers sometimes close beaches as a precaution.
East Chicago beaches, which ranked in the bottom six, were tested five times a week. Buffington Harbor had the highest number of exceedances -- on average, one every three days. That's up nearly two thirds compared to 2007.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 7, 2009 08:16 AM
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