The Natural Resources Defense Council, a national environmental action group, released its 22nd annual report “Testing the Waters” on Wednesday, detailing the state of water quality throughout the nation’s coastal beaches and great lakes.
Compared to the rest of the nation, Florida ranked 5th in Beach water quality, with 3% of beach samples from around the state exceeded state bacterial standards. The states with the highest bacterial exceedance rates were Louisiana at 29 percent and Ohio with 22 percent. A list on the NRDC’s report of “repeat offenders”, beaches with an exceedance rate of over %25, mostly contained beaches in California, Louisiana and Illinois.
This article appears in Jun 28 – Jul 4, 2012.