Most Texas beaches pose safety risks due to high fecal bacteria levels, report says
www.dallasnews.com
Roughly 90% of Texas beaches tested positive for fecal bacteria at least one day in 2022, making them potentially unsafe for swimmers, according to an...
  • @KalkalineEnglish
    20•1 year ago

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    • BigFigOPMEnglish
      11•1 year ago

      Something Something “god gave us this earth to do with as we please”

    • FinalFallacy
      1•1 year ago

      I mean, technically, it’s just the Gulf of Mexico.

      Honestly you’d figure all the crude oil floating around and other platform run off and leakage would kill the bacteria. Like two negatives make a positive

  • @Guatch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18•1 year ago

    All of these beaches listed here, but Corpus Christie are in the direct path of the Trinity river which is where waste waster effluent leaves the DFW area. This shouldn’t be a surprise knowing that, and it has certainly been brought up in the past that that might be a problem

    • BigFigOPMEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      from DFW and every single city and town along the River and in its basin

  • @sudo22@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16•1 year ago

    Born and raised in Houston.

    When I was a kid (circa mid 2000s) Galveston beach was mid as fuck, but a fun enough time. Water was never clear, but it didn’t feel unsafe.

    Now in the last 5 years or so, Galveston beach is genuinely disgusting. If you visit you want to do the dry stuff like restaurants and Keema boardwalk. The most you want to do with the beach is glance at it and wince.

  • JeffEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Well this is a crappy article.