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As the summer season gets underway, a new report finds that many coastal U.S. waterways, including popular beaches for swimming, are contaminated with unsafe levels of fecal bacteria.
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Sep. 1—Contaminated waters could hinder beach adventures from York to Camden this Labor Day weekend. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has issued contamination warnings for five ...
Two children cleaning beach debris in Ivory Coast A mechanical beach cleaner with tractor attached removing unwanted beach debris. Beach cleaning or clean-up is the process of removing solid litter, dense chemicals, and organic debris deposited on a beach or coastline by the tide, local visitors, or tourists.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Michigan designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Located in Laurence Harbor is the Old Bridge Waterfront Park, a boardwalk where the Superfund site is located. [2] The cause of the Superfund site is a lead smelting company, National Lead Company, which currently goes by the name NL Industries.
13. Atlantic Beach. Location: Atlantic Beach, Florida Despite a reasonably low crime rate, Atlantic Beach’s waters are not the safest. The beach scores 66.2 on a 100-point scale for water pollution.
The 900-acre (3.6 km 2) Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge contains a twenty-mile (32 km) section of coastline from Melbourne Beach south. This is the most important nesting area for loggerhead sea turtles in the western hemisphere and the second most important nesting beach in the world. [44]