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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.
The cities of Fulton and Rockport were established on Aransas Bay in the late 19th century, and later expanded development along most of the eastern shore of Copano Bay. Such developments include Copano Village , which registered 210 residents in 2000, [ 9 ] and the 1,000 resident Holiday Beach community just west of Goose Island State Park on ...
Jace Tunnell carefully holding a bearded firework, pointing at its dozens of pain-inducing bristles. (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies) Surfers beware: Bearded fireworms ...
The Copano Bay Fishing Pier was a pier in Aransas County, Texas, United States used primarily for recreational fishing. The pier had two separate sections. The pier had two separate sections. One is 2,500 feet (760 m) long on the south side of the bay and the other is 6,190 feet (1,890 m) long on the north side.
Other data from past years also verifies the alarming rates of bacteria at local beaches that can make swimmers sick. In 2022, 75% of California beaches tested had potentially unsafe levels of ...
Holiday Beach is situated on the eastern shore of Copano Bay along State Highway 35 in Aransas County, approximately 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Rockport. [4]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km 2), of which 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2) is water.
The researchers found that the bacteria tends to decay more slowly on the beach than in the water. ABC did its own experiment and took samples of sand from three different beaches to be tested at ...
Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) bloom on Lake Erie (United States) in 2009. These kinds of algae can cause harmful algal bloom. A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, sometimes called a red tide in marine environments, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, water deoxygenation, mechanical damage to ...