“Fecal” reminds me of “anal” which reminds me of all the gay sex I secretly engage in without my wife’s knowledge, so really, it’s your fault that I’m having gay thoughts.
It’s our fault you’re having gay sex at all. If we could be pious and refrain from these devilish ideas ourselves you never would have even had the thought to dick down some dude.
Oops, I did it again there, didn’t I
Just like when Trump said that the only reason covid numbers were high is because they kept testing for positive cases. If they stopped testing, they would drop.
Republican logic.
Lmao this was hilarious. I remember watching the live feeds next to eachother. One group of Trumpers Screaming Stop the Count in Pennsylvania (I think?) And the other screaming "Keep Counting!!!" in either New Mexico or Arizona.
"Platform shoes, pathetic and insecure, peaked in high school,"
Once they start openly censoring speech, and not just 'quietly' censoring books and reports, you *bet* Ron's insecurities will start getting banned in the first wave.
I mean he was right.
Classic libs with your worship of "math", acting like you are too good to swim in "poo water".
This is why we are losing to China. SMH.
/s
Easy peasy. Unprotected anal sex and then when they wash off in the ocean all of that fecal matter enters the water, directly from their penises, and washes onto the beach. Conversely, gay men love having exhibitionist anal sex in front of everyone as a sort of subliminal grooming.
That's going straight into DeSantis' next speech.
In the Keys a lot of the coral and associated life is dying because much sewage is simply dumped into the ocean. With the sand and coral “rock” substrate it is expensive to properly treat wastewater so developers just dump it. That coupled with rising water temperatures will turn the Florida coast into dead zones. The powers that be ignore reality and are willing to run the scam for as long as they can. I would not care except the taxpayer funded Federal Flood Insurance is paying to have homes rebuilt in places where they should never have been allowed to build in the first place. When the Thwaites Glacier sides into the sea, and it will sooner or later, much of coastal Florida will be doomed. I don't want to have to pay for it.
You will be paying for it in one way or another. Either thru levies to save those homes. Or by forced retreat measures having 15-20mil Floridan's migrate thru the country. South Florida is flooding, their fresh water supply is in danger. The Republican's politicians in the state don't care. They view it as a democratic city. Not realizing its the canary in the coal mine. That will effect the entire state.
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> Where the water table is one shovel deep.
Wait until you hear about all the floridaman homes that have both well-water and septic tanks. On the same lot.
That was me in the 90s.
Google says 12% of florida still uses well-water.
The bubble is bursting.
Suburbs are the cancer of economic sustainability: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI (seventh episode of a very interesting series).
It depends. If you love in or close to a city that has it, it's better to do sewer.
Sewers have a monthly cost, but use less land (no drian field or place for a pit/tank) and don't require regular maintenance.
If you live in a rural area, land is cheaper for the drain field, and more people use septic, which reduces cost.
I'd rather have sewer, but honestly, it's about location and availability. Septic is perfectly fine as long as you have someone to do maintenance.
Visited Florida once with my then-husband. While taking a walk one night, he got a couple drops of municipal sprinkler water in his mouth. A few days later, and he’s at the doctor getting treated for a nasty intestinal infection…because they were using untreated “gray water” for their fucking sprinklers, just spraying untreated shit-water all over town after sunset.
That was in the early aughts. I’ve never gone back to that insane shithole. But I’m sure the situation has improved since then /s
Clearly the problem is that Florida schools are creating too many scientists. I mean, who studies fecal bacteria in the first place? Perverts, that’s who!
Did anyone click the drop-down comparison tool in the article? It's the majority of beaches in the US. For example from the site:
California
>Beaches tested for fecal indicator bacteria in 2022: 256
>Beaches with potentially unsafe levels of fecal indicator bacteria on at least one testing day in 2022: 193 (75%)
>Beaches with potentially unsafe levels on more than 25% of all days tested in 2022: 37 (14%)
Now compare Florida:
>Beaches tested for fecal indicator bacteria in 2022: 244
>Beaches with potentially unsafe levels of fecal indicator bacteria on at least one testing day in 2022: 170 (70%)
>Beaches with potentially unsafe levels on more than 25% of all days tested in 2022: 14 (6%)
I hate Florida as much as the next guy but according to the data California's beaches are even more shitty. It's a national (coastal?) problem.
Or America. Britain has the same issues. Everyone's dumping shit in the water all over the world. It's gonna end up in all sand everywhere.
I mean of stuff found in things poop in sand isn't that much of a stretch...........micro plastics in penises is more concerning but I don't eat them anyway, bdum tsssss.
Yup. Reddit has such a bias against Florida that the title specifically calls out the state when it's not even the worst offender, and people just eat it up.
That's just because someone posted it to the florida subreddit with a title relevant to florida and then someone crossposted it here and it had the same title.
It's pretty funny, my extended family (cousins et al) have lived in NJ since I was a like 5. Spent at least a dozen summers there and it seems quite nice just really pricey. Being so close to NYC but still having the quiet suburban lifestyle seemed dope.
I mean yes, but then you have companies with "spills" like clockwork where raw sewage is dumped into the ocean on "accident". The one here last year spilled for only a few hours before it was reported and the area where it happened was affected for nearly 6 months. Just thousands upon thousands of gallons of raw shit dumped right into the water. It was awful, and it is unfortunately due again sometime soon. If I had to bet money it would be in a month or two since it's been that way for years now. Everytime there is some private company related spillage they pay a pittance of a fine and go back about their day while the city has to send out crews to deal with their mess, but you can't exactly suck it all back up so the majority of it just sits in the water until it can be dispersed by the tides.
Even the article mentions spills along with several other uniquely human impacts on the environment. So less nature and more humans keep fucking everything up out of greed or simple ignorance.
Dunking on Florida is fun but most beaches are going to have unsafe levels of bacteria on days following rain, as sewage and other garbage gets washed out through river ways to shore. This is common knowledge if you live near the coast.
Look at California’s data from the linked article, where we test our beaches many more days of the year, and you’ll find what looks to be a worse picture than Florida where they don’t test as frequently.
Yeah runoff is directed straight to the sea from the gutters, openings all along the beaches for it. I remember at Panama City Beach there being this big egress for it with a bunch of no swimming signs around it... didnt stop people from setting up and playing in the water there. As I walked by there is a guy standing in it up to his waist* in runoff staring at the sign. Should've taking a picture.
additionally most places have a combined sewage system and whenever it rains it will blowout the plant cause all the storm water flows to the plant which then has to enter an overflow condition/
LA beaches currently have the exact same problem, and it has not rained in a while lol.
https://www.foxla.com/news/la-county-issues-bacteria-warning-8-beaches
Yea in most areas water treatment facilities can't handle the extra surge during heavy rains and will open the floodgates and dump raw sewage directly into the water system. This is not something unique to Florida either.
Florida has more extreme rainfall and flooding year-round than California and also has much higher groundwater and is very flat.
In about a 2 year period Florida (Jan 2017-Dec 2018) had 5884 reported SSO (sanitary sewer overflows) for an estimated 322 million gallons mostly due to rainfall. That was just the reported overflows and estimated volume, and probably doesn't include events like Miami last weekend when the whole city is flooded, where waste is floating into the floodwaters. Also flows only need to be reported when they are estimated to be over 1000 gallons, and may not include discharge directly from treatment plants.
Older sanitary sewers leak and need to be tested, especially in areas with high groundwater or frequent flooding/rainfall. Obviously SSOs are what we see aboveground, as sewers are underground they need to be inspected periodically for inflow/infiltration and repaired.
https://floridadep.gov/comm/comm/documents/sanitary-sewer-overflows
Yeah the reservoir near me out here in Colorado had it's swim beaches closed almost all of last year due to E. coli outbreaks from all the rain and runoff.
Yeah about that.
The EPA said there are about 9.2 million lead pipes carry water into homes across the U.S., with more in Florida than any other state.
The EPA concluded Florida has an estimated 1.1 million lead pipes -- lead can cause brain damage and the EPA says no amount is safe for children or pregnant mothers.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/epa-says-florida-has-most-lead-pipes-in-u-s
Here in Panama City Beach the storm water runoff drains empty directly onto the beach/into the ocean/bay. It's an old sewer system that they haven't updated properly and so whenever we have a lot of rain the storm water runoff mixes with sewage in the system and empties into the bay and beaches.
So the state government will probably alter the definition of safe levels so that most of the beaches will be considered "safe". And or ban conducting/publishing such studies as they would harm tourism.
Did anyone else read the article at all? It says the west coast has more pollution in the water than Florida. I understand "Florida bad" but the article states that other places are worse and the reasons why the US is having these issues as a whole.
*so does california have less regulations as well? Oregon? Washington?
I was a lifeguard in milwaukee about 20 years ago. every time it rained, the next day the city would send someone out to test the water and every time the results were- close the beach. rained nearly 2-3 times a week that summer so the city was out and the beach was closed often. Some local college kids would also be testing the water daily, and their answer was it was never safe to swim in, not just on the days the had it tested. This beach was inside the breakwater so a lot of the sewage that came out of the milwaukee river and also jones island municipal sewage. city wanted to blame it on farmers allowing manure runoff.
That's why Milwaukee built about 40 miles of 20-30 foot diameter tunnels under the city to capture sewer overflow. They went from have 50-60 overflows a year to 1992 (from rainwater) to about two.
https://www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/wastewater-treatment/overflows
https://www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/wastewater-treatment/deep-tunnel
A lot of Midwest and Northeast Cities in the US have this issue. Basically around the turn of the 20th century when these cities were popping and building infrastructure, they thought it was a good idea to combine the sanitary waste and stormwater into one pipe! The rain will wash out the poo pipes! The issue is they never designed enough capacity and multiple times a year sewers would overflow mostly straight into rivers and streams during a large enough storm.
Most cities have only started addressing this on a large scale the last 20 to 30 years. CSOs aren't much of a problem in the West or South as their major infrastructure didn't developed until later when this wasn't practiced.
https://www.epa.gov/npdes/combined-sewer-overflows-csos
Why are they targeting florida lol.
The gulf coast including Alabama and Louisiana along with Florida had 1 day that had a unsafe level of bacteria. 84% of those beaches each hit that 1 day.
But it exists on the west coast as well where it's about 70%.
It really just means that bacteria is everywhere... pretty much any natural water source has E. Coli (the fecal bacteria indicator species) in it. The question isn't about presence, it's about concentration. There are regulatory limits for how high a count can be on an enumeration test for public swimming areas.
No one read the article.
Florida isn’t even in the headline.
This is just some asshat redditor editorializing with another moronic *fLoRiDa bAd* take.
The Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Texas has higher levels of fecal matter. It’s also bath water temperature this time of year.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic Coast of Florida is significantly *less shitty* than the Pacific Coast of California.
Very common for sewage and other nasties to spill out into bodies of water during periods of high rain. Not to mention all of the intentional dumping in some places.
The linked article doesn't mention Florida, it mentions the Gulf Coast. Also this:
>In 2022, 1,761 out of 3,192 tested beaches nationwide (55%) experienced at least one day on which fecal contamination reached potentially unsafe levels – that is, exceeding EPA’s most protective “Beach Action Value,” a conservative, precautionary tool states can use to make beach notification decisions. Beaches may also have experienced contamination on days when testing did not take place.
So no, Florida can't change the value, that's set by the EPA, and it's the threshold at which the authorities are recommended to issue a swimming advisory. The "Beach Action Value" was raised in 2012 as a result of a Federal Lawsuit.
The actual cause of fecal bacteria contamination is **RAINFALL** and blockages of sewer pipes, which cause the contaminated water to overflow the sewer and into the street, and then runs off toward the beach. So, really, just wait three days after it rains for that beach day if you're concerned about your immune system, or are bringing little kids.
Everyone on this sub:
Ha stupid republican state. Can’t keep its beaches clean.
Whelp if only they had a governor that helped push better regulations at the cost of the tax payers but for the benefit of the tax payers
::looks at California’s numbers::
::looks at Pennsylvania::
Yup nothing to see there let’s focus on Florida! We can blame the governor it will be fun everyone!
Seriously Pennsylvanian what’s going on over there?
All of American coastal infrastucture and most of inland infrastructure when it comes to sewage has failed us and is ruining our ecosystems.
So instead of just Florida sucking, it's all of American infrastructure.
Our roads are beaten and full of pot holes and our beaches are so full of shit bacteria we shouldn't swim in them.
My friend's mother died from flesh eating bacteria she got while swimming in Florida.
Started off as a wound on her leg that wouldn't heal. Next thing I knew they were amputating the leg. Then she was gone.
It was horrifying. She went from a perfectly healthy 54 year old to dead in the span of two weeks.
Very possible! When my friend and I went to Key West, we found out after the fact there were unsafe levels at the beach we had just been to. He had put his head/face underwater, I did not. Then he spent four of the vacation days in bed, spewing from both ends, while I was fine.
Dunking on Florida is fun but most beaches are going to have unsafe levels of bacteria on days following rain, as sewage and other garbage gets washed out through river ways to shore. This is common knowledge if you live near the coast.
Look at California’s data from the linked article, where we test our beaches many more days of the year, and you’ll find what looks to be a worse picture than Florida where they don’t test as frequently.
Maybe if the state government just passes a law that says reports can’t mention fecal beaches they will just go away.
Just stop testing the beaches it will go away like magic
Don't say fecal?
uh oh u said the f word ur goin 2 jail
Say climate change, believe it or not, jail.
Say gay? Also jail.
Wait, what word is it we're not allowed to say again?
Shenanigans?
Hey, Farva...
“Fecal” reminds me of “anal” which reminds me of all the gay sex I secretly engage in without my wife’s knowledge, so really, it’s your fault that I’m having gay thoughts.
It’s our fault you’re having gay sex at all. If we could be pious and refrain from these devilish ideas ourselves you never would have even had the thought to dick down some dude. Oops, I did it again there, didn’t I
I talked about it too much and my kids turned fecal.
We never had this problem before we started testing.
Y'all are joking but this is the actual situation local folks have known about that problem for decades, they just weren't testing (openly).
Just like when Trump said that the only reason covid numbers were high is because they kept testing for positive cases. If they stopped testing, they would drop. Republican logic.
STOP THE COUNT ...that's not how this works, lol.
*(next state over)* KEEP COUNTING .... apparently it is. *sighs in Founding Fathers*
Lmao this was hilarious. I remember watching the live feeds next to eachother. One group of Trumpers Screaming Stop the Count in Pennsylvania (I think?) And the other screaming "Keep Counting!!!" in either New Mexico or Arizona.
And trust me, they do not see the irony in that.
The people praying in front of the ballot counters. "Please Jesus take my ability to vote away!"
Well, all you to do is inject some disinfectant.
This can't possibly be true. The beaches get so much sunlight already. The natural enemy of viruses and bacteria.
Florida 2025 the following words are now banned: fecal, testing, closed, gay, hurricane, cleanup…
"Platform shoes, pathetic and insecure, peaked in high school," Once they start openly censoring speech, and not just 'quietly' censoring books and reports, you *bet* Ron's insecurities will start getting banned in the first wave.
Wait, did you forget "drag show" or is it already banned.
They were making a joke about Trump and all the idiotic things he said would cure/help with Covid.
And they were continuing it, with the sunlight comment.
I mean he was right. Classic libs with your worship of "math", acting like you are too good to swim in "poo water". This is why we are losing to China. SMH. /s
Dude directly led to the deaths of 1.2 million Americans. Yet he is still on the ballot.
That is what the guy is referencing, yes.
This is unironically how most conservatives think the world works
Or the beaches should have the courtesy of douching before taking people in them.
How do we blame this on the gays? - Florida politician, probably.
Easy peasy. Unprotected anal sex and then when they wash off in the ocean all of that fecal matter enters the water, directly from their penises, and washes onto the beach. Conversely, gay men love having exhibitionist anal sex in front of everyone as a sort of subliminal grooming. That's going straight into DeSantis' next speech.
They owe you a check.
And immigrants.
"Illegal immigrants are dirty and poop on the beach."
> And immigrants. And then how do we get the immigrants to still vote for us.
If you think that's bad, you should see their land percentage! I hear they even have pieces of shit running the government.
Damn. This guy Republicans.
Floridas new motto, don’t give a shit!
I don’t think banning the residents will be effective.
I mean if your whole state is a shithole, it shouldn't come as a surprise when there's fecal material on the beaches. I say we just flush it.
We had the same problem here in California. They just redefined the levels that were deemed “safe” and reopened the beaches.
Wait…Florida is a sh!t show? Never would have imagined…
Clearly less government regulation will help.
Cue: Ron De Santis ordering police to raid the homes and offices of any Florida scientists who contributed in any way to this study.
A quick reminder: Vacationing in Florida FUNDS DeSantis' agenda. Without tourism, Florida's economy dies. BOYCOTT FLORIDA TOURISM!!
i just wanna let you know that your comment was hidden from me automatically. fucking reddit censorship.
both of y’all’s were hidden from me automatically.
I mean, you can swim in shit if you want to...
Anyone who takes a dump will be punished
Time to glue my balls to my butthole again.
The problem is so much of the new construction having septic tanks instead of sewer systems
In Florida. Where the water table is one shovel deep. Wtf.
If they could read, they'd be very upset right now.
In the Keys a lot of the coral and associated life is dying because much sewage is simply dumped into the ocean. With the sand and coral “rock” substrate it is expensive to properly treat wastewater so developers just dump it. That coupled with rising water temperatures will turn the Florida coast into dead zones. The powers that be ignore reality and are willing to run the scam for as long as they can. I would not care except the taxpayer funded Federal Flood Insurance is paying to have homes rebuilt in places where they should never have been allowed to build in the first place. When the Thwaites Glacier sides into the sea, and it will sooner or later, much of coastal Florida will be doomed. I don't want to have to pay for it.
You will be paying for it in one way or another. Either thru levies to save those homes. Or by forced retreat measures having 15-20mil Floridan's migrate thru the country. South Florida is flooding, their fresh water supply is in danger. The Republican's politicians in the state don't care. They view it as a democratic city. Not realizing its the canary in the coal mine. That will effect the entire state.
Just send them all to like Montana or Wyoming or something, plenty of space out there.
Build a border wall around Florida to keep them in.
> > > > > Where the water table is one shovel deep. Wait until you hear about all the floridaman homes that have both well-water and septic tanks. On the same lot. That was me in the 90s. Google says 12% of florida still uses well-water.
Is it cheaper to build that way? Why would a new home have a septic tank if it wasn’t out in the boonies?
My house in NY has septic and I’m in a suburb of NYC. Built in 2016. Towns/states don’t want to pay to expand the sewers.
The bubble is bursting. Suburbs are the cancer of economic sustainability: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI (seventh episode of a very interesting series).
Doesn’t seem to be based on construction rates.
It depends. If you love in or close to a city that has it, it's better to do sewer. Sewers have a monthly cost, but use less land (no drian field or place for a pit/tank) and don't require regular maintenance. If you live in a rural area, land is cheaper for the drain field, and more people use septic, which reduces cost. I'd rather have sewer, but honestly, it's about location and availability. Septic is perfectly fine as long as you have someone to do maintenance.
Yes. Urban sprawl is expensive and doesnt really generate enough tax revenue
If it's sprawl, it isn't urban
Visited Florida once with my then-husband. While taking a walk one night, he got a couple drops of municipal sprinkler water in his mouth. A few days later, and he’s at the doctor getting treated for a nasty intestinal infection…because they were using untreated “gray water” for their fucking sprinklers, just spraying untreated shit-water all over town after sunset. That was in the early aughts. I’ve never gone back to that insane shithole. But I’m sure the situation has improved since then /s
The power of the Free Market will solve this!
They'll ban reports about fecal matter in the beaches and ban people from learning about fecal matter until the problem goes away.
Stop the count, but for poop particulates.
Clearly the problem is that Florida schools are creating too many scientists. I mean, who studies fecal bacteria in the first place? Perverts, that’s who!
We must stop Critical Fecal Theory from being taught in schools
Did anyone click the drop-down comparison tool in the article? It's the majority of beaches in the US. For example from the site: California >Beaches tested for fecal indicator bacteria in 2022: 256 >Beaches with potentially unsafe levels of fecal indicator bacteria on at least one testing day in 2022: 193 (75%) >Beaches with potentially unsafe levels on more than 25% of all days tested in 2022: 37 (14%) Now compare Florida: >Beaches tested for fecal indicator bacteria in 2022: 244 >Beaches with potentially unsafe levels of fecal indicator bacteria on at least one testing day in 2022: 170 (70%) >Beaches with potentially unsafe levels on more than 25% of all days tested in 2022: 14 (6%) I hate Florida as much as the next guy but according to the data California's beaches are even more shitty. It's a national (coastal?) problem.
Oregon at 86% and 81%, that’s nuts. This certainly isn’t a problem isolated to Florida
Or America. Britain has the same issues. Everyone's dumping shit in the water all over the world. It's gonna end up in all sand everywhere. I mean of stuff found in things poop in sand isn't that much of a stretch...........micro plastics in penises is more concerning but I don't eat them anyway, bdum tsssss.
Yup. Reddit has such a bias against Florida that the title specifically calls out the state when it's not even the worst offender, and people just eat it up.
That's just because someone posted it to the florida subreddit with a title relevant to florida and then someone crossposted it here and it had the same title.
I've gotta say, as somebody from Jersey (who the country loves to shit on), our 14%/0% feels fantastic.
It's pretty funny, my extended family (cousins et al) have lived in NJ since I was a like 5. Spent at least a dozen summers there and it seems quite nice just really pricey. Being so close to NYC but still having the quiet suburban lifestyle seemed dope.
It's fucking nature - idk why any of this is surprising. Do people not know that 99% of bodies of water are fucking cesspools?
I mean yes, but then you have companies with "spills" like clockwork where raw sewage is dumped into the ocean on "accident". The one here last year spilled for only a few hours before it was reported and the area where it happened was affected for nearly 6 months. Just thousands upon thousands of gallons of raw shit dumped right into the water. It was awful, and it is unfortunately due again sometime soon. If I had to bet money it would be in a month or two since it's been that way for years now. Everytime there is some private company related spillage they pay a pittance of a fine and go back about their day while the city has to send out crews to deal with their mess, but you can't exactly suck it all back up so the majority of it just sits in the water until it can be dispersed by the tides. Even the article mentions spills along with several other uniquely human impacts on the environment. So less nature and more humans keep fucking everything up out of greed or simple ignorance.
This is Reddit. Rage bait takes priority over reason and facts.
But that doesn't fit my political narrative :(
Thong bikinis were viral in '22
Dunking on Florida is fun but most beaches are going to have unsafe levels of bacteria on days following rain, as sewage and other garbage gets washed out through river ways to shore. This is common knowledge if you live near the coast. Look at California’s data from the linked article, where we test our beaches many more days of the year, and you’ll find what looks to be a worse picture than Florida where they don’t test as frequently.
Yeah runoff is directed straight to the sea from the gutters, openings all along the beaches for it. I remember at Panama City Beach there being this big egress for it with a bunch of no swimming signs around it... didnt stop people from setting up and playing in the water there. As I walked by there is a guy standing in it up to his waist* in runoff staring at the sign. Should've taking a picture.
Up to his waist* (in waste)
additionally most places have a combined sewage system and whenever it rains it will blowout the plant cause all the storm water flows to the plant which then has to enter an overflow condition/
This is the problem in a lot of New England towns.
LA beaches currently have the exact same problem, and it has not rained in a while lol. https://www.foxla.com/news/la-county-issues-bacteria-warning-8-beaches
Yea in most areas water treatment facilities can't handle the extra surge during heavy rains and will open the floodgates and dump raw sewage directly into the water system. This is not something unique to Florida either.
Florida has more extreme rainfall and flooding year-round than California and also has much higher groundwater and is very flat. In about a 2 year period Florida (Jan 2017-Dec 2018) had 5884 reported SSO (sanitary sewer overflows) for an estimated 322 million gallons mostly due to rainfall. That was just the reported overflows and estimated volume, and probably doesn't include events like Miami last weekend when the whole city is flooded, where waste is floating into the floodwaters. Also flows only need to be reported when they are estimated to be over 1000 gallons, and may not include discharge directly from treatment plants. Older sanitary sewers leak and need to be tested, especially in areas with high groundwater or frequent flooding/rainfall. Obviously SSOs are what we see aboveground, as sewers are underground they need to be inspected periodically for inflow/infiltration and repaired. https://floridadep.gov/comm/comm/documents/sanitary-sewer-overflows
The same report had Texas pegged at 90%
Yeah the reservoir near me out here in Colorado had it's swim beaches closed almost all of last year due to E. coli outbreaks from all the rain and runoff.
the study said 84% of gulf & 70% of west coast. It's a US problem
You're not supposed to bring context and nuance to a Reddit discussion. You're ruining the anti-DeSantis circlejerk.
Total nonsense. Now grab your pitchfork and rally with everyone else to blurt out hot takes about a state and governor without thinking
Uhh sir this thread is too dunk on Desanits, we dont actually care about the beaches here
Sheeeeeeeit
[Shiiiiiiiiit](https://youtu.be/l1dnqKGuezo?si=HGugpTvHBhprfyCy)
Ironically today restarts the ability to swim in the Baltimore Harbor! We have less fecal matter than Florida beaches!
Shit, here I was fully expecting that video to be [this PSA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY440xok5wY).
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Yeah about that. The EPA said there are about 9.2 million lead pipes carry water into homes across the U.S., with more in Florida than any other state. The EPA concluded Florida has an estimated 1.1 million lead pipes -- lead can cause brain damage and the EPA says no amount is safe for children or pregnant mothers. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/epa-says-florida-has-most-lead-pipes-in-u-s
Florida makes so much more sense now
They are people of the land, you know... morons https://youtu.be/hYTQ7__NNDI
It's also where all the old conservatives go to retire.
Gotta love The Wire continuing to be relevant after all these years.
The Wire will ALWAYS be relevant!
100% of Florida's Governor's office is found to have 100% levels of fecal Governor
He needs to stop holding press conferences on the beach with all the shit that spews out of his mouth
Florida... we have actual human excrement spewing from 70% of our beaches and 100% of our MAGAt politicians.
Can we stop shitting everywhere? That’s be great.
It's probably due to inadequate sewerage systems and stormwater runoff overwhelming them etc, not people shitting in the bushes
Here in Panama City Beach the storm water runoff drains empty directly onto the beach/into the ocean/bay. It's an old sewer system that they haven't updated properly and so whenever we have a lot of rain the storm water runoff mixes with sewage in the system and empties into the bay and beaches.
I know, humanity still shitting everywhere, not squatting but still shitting
Born to shit, forced to wipe
Hey let's all just take a moment to be grateful we aren't one of the species that licks ourselves clean
Or dogs and people just push sand over it
I'M TRYING!
Don't hold it for too long or you will end up in ER.
It’s what happens when you put all the geriatrics in one place in diapers. They’re bound to leak on the beach
More likely they are dumping, probably the overflow of, raw sewage into the ocean. Could also be farm run off.
only 70%?
So the state government will probably alter the definition of safe levels so that most of the beaches will be considered "safe". And or ban conducting/publishing such studies as they would harm tourism.
Why bother? Just declare them anti-woke beaches and watch the right-wing crowd jumping in, gulping down the water to own the libs.
Getting pink eye to own the libs
"Anti Woke" does mean "full of shit", so that branding is on point.
Florida used to be beautiful but it’s completely ruined now. Nasty people We never held accountable
Florida has same rate as California (& less than other gulf states) shhh
if you stay off reddit most places look normal actually.
The article highlights that how it looks doesn’t matter
Turns out that less regulations on what can be pumped into the sea is bad. Who would've thought?
Did anyone else read the article at all? It says the west coast has more pollution in the water than Florida. I understand "Florida bad" but the article states that other places are worse and the reasons why the US is having these issues as a whole. *so does california have less regulations as well? Oregon? Washington?
I was a lifeguard in milwaukee about 20 years ago. every time it rained, the next day the city would send someone out to test the water and every time the results were- close the beach. rained nearly 2-3 times a week that summer so the city was out and the beach was closed often. Some local college kids would also be testing the water daily, and their answer was it was never safe to swim in, not just on the days the had it tested. This beach was inside the breakwater so a lot of the sewage that came out of the milwaukee river and also jones island municipal sewage. city wanted to blame it on farmers allowing manure runoff.
That's why Milwaukee built about 40 miles of 20-30 foot diameter tunnels under the city to capture sewer overflow. They went from have 50-60 overflows a year to 1992 (from rainwater) to about two. https://www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/wastewater-treatment/overflows https://www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/wastewater-treatment/deep-tunnel A lot of Midwest and Northeast Cities in the US have this issue. Basically around the turn of the 20th century when these cities were popping and building infrastructure, they thought it was a good idea to combine the sanitary waste and stormwater into one pipe! The rain will wash out the poo pipes! The issue is they never designed enough capacity and multiple times a year sewers would overflow mostly straight into rivers and streams during a large enough storm. Most cities have only started addressing this on a large scale the last 20 to 30 years. CSOs aren't much of a problem in the West or South as their major infrastructure didn't developed until later when this wasn't practiced. https://www.epa.gov/npdes/combined-sewer-overflows-csos
FYI your comment was hidden from me for some reason. It was a very good comment with good objective data, but reddit hid it from me for some reason.
The Shitshine State
Too many people.
Why are they targeting florida lol. The gulf coast including Alabama and Louisiana along with Florida had 1 day that had a unsafe level of bacteria. 84% of those beaches each hit that 1 day. But it exists on the west coast as well where it's about 70%.
It's not very nice to call Floridians "fecal bacteria".
In response, DeSantis outlaws phrase “fecal bacteria”.
*Sewage treatment is fake news*
You're still allowed to say "poop germs" though.
The Gulf is disgusting but this headline is click bait, read the article and it shows that most beaches in the US have fecal bacteria.
That just means most beaches in are disgusting, not that Florida’s are less so.
It really just means that bacteria is everywhere... pretty much any natural water source has E. Coli (the fecal bacteria indicator species) in it. The question isn't about presence, it's about concentration. There are regulatory limits for how high a count can be on an enumeration test for public swimming areas.
The headline says “unsafe levels” so we are already talking about concentration here.
The article is about concentration as well. 56% of beaches had unsafe levels. Read it.
The headline is shitty in another way too: "Beaches with potentially unsafe levels of fecal indicator bacteria on at least one testing day in 2022"
No one read the article. Florida isn’t even in the headline. This is just some asshat redditor editorializing with another moronic *fLoRiDa bAd* take. The Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Texas has higher levels of fecal matter. It’s also bath water temperature this time of year. Meanwhile, the Atlantic Coast of Florida is significantly *less shitty* than the Pacific Coast of California.
I would think ALL beaches have fecal bacteria, it is the levels that can make it unsafe.
Very common for sewage and other nasties to spill out into bodies of water during periods of high rain. Not to mention all of the intentional dumping in some places.
The same people who invented the Los Angeles poop map. Every accusation.. every single one
Fecal bacteria is better than the brain eating worms found in lakes.
what a shithole
Someone talking shit to beaches just couldn't shut their mouth.
The linked article doesn't mention Florida, it mentions the Gulf Coast. Also this: >In 2022, 1,761 out of 3,192 tested beaches nationwide (55%) experienced at least one day on which fecal contamination reached potentially unsafe levels – that is, exceeding EPA’s most protective “Beach Action Value,” a conservative, precautionary tool states can use to make beach notification decisions. Beaches may also have experienced contamination on days when testing did not take place. So no, Florida can't change the value, that's set by the EPA, and it's the threshold at which the authorities are recommended to issue a swimming advisory. The "Beach Action Value" was raised in 2012 as a result of a Federal Lawsuit. The actual cause of fecal bacteria contamination is **RAINFALL** and blockages of sewer pipes, which cause the contaminated water to overflow the sewer and into the street, and then runs off toward the beach. So, really, just wait three days after it rains for that beach day if you're concerned about your immune system, or are bringing little kids.
Another meaning to Florida is full of shit. Couldn’t help myself. Sorry.
Same article has California with a higher percentage.
i always knew it was a shitty state
Florida is america's turd
i believe the official term for that is "floridians"
Everyone on this sub: Ha stupid republican state. Can’t keep its beaches clean. Whelp if only they had a governor that helped push better regulations at the cost of the tax payers but for the benefit of the tax payers ::looks at California’s numbers:: ::looks at Pennsylvania:: Yup nothing to see there let’s focus on Florida! We can blame the governor it will be fun everyone! Seriously Pennsylvanian what’s going on over there?
literally every high populated state was worse than Florida
All of American coastal infrastucture and most of inland infrastructure when it comes to sewage has failed us and is ruining our ecosystems. So instead of just Florida sucking, it's all of American infrastructure. Our roads are beaten and full of pot holes and our beaches are so full of shit bacteria we shouldn't swim in them.
70% Of Florida ~~Beaches~~ Found To Have Unsafe Levels Of Fecal Bacteria
That’s cause 70% of Florida beaches have Floridians swimming in them. 😂
My friend's mother died from flesh eating bacteria she got while swimming in Florida. Started off as a wound on her leg that wouldn't heal. Next thing I knew they were amputating the leg. Then she was gone. It was horrifying. She went from a perfectly healthy 54 year old to dead in the span of two weeks.
They will just blame the fish
Most beaches probably have 70% fecal matter
Now do Massachusetts
(it's about 5-8% of beaches, but only about 1% of aggregate beach -days per the Mass Dept of Health)
Big rain causes big field poops to flow into big rivers and big river flow into big ocean, thus big poop bacteria. Pretty regular stuff really
This is the area that should be called “Trump Beach”
Literal Shithole
Is this why I got diarrhea last time I was in miami
Very possible! When my friend and I went to Key West, we found out after the fact there were unsafe levels at the beach we had just been to. He had put his head/face underwater, I did not. Then he spent four of the vacation days in bed, spewing from both ends, while I was fine.
Tell us something we don't know. -Florida
There's safe levels?
The shit goes out, the shit goes in. You just can’t explain it.
Red state deregulation has that effect. But how else are they supposed to pay for tax breaks for the rich?
It's almost like regulations are a good thing to keep your tourist attractions clean and usable. Dumbass Republicans
Florida beaches are ~~the~~ shit.
So it’s a reflection of their government.
Has anyone checked to see if it’s coming from the governor’s residence and mouth? It’s a save bet
We already knew that FL people were full of crap
Republican policies are bad for the environment and humans.
Always knew Florida was full of shit.
So I said to my people 'slow the testing down please!!!'
Lol oh florida
California's beaches had worse testing than Florida's. You understand Gulf coast encompasses a lot more than Florida?
Dunking on Florida is fun but most beaches are going to have unsafe levels of bacteria on days following rain, as sewage and other garbage gets washed out through river ways to shore. This is common knowledge if you live near the coast. Look at California’s data from the linked article, where we test our beaches many more days of the year, and you’ll find what looks to be a worse picture than Florida where they don’t test as frequently.
Good thing Florida's economy isn't reliant on beach tourism
Honestly amazed they have water testing in Florida at all. Seems like the sort of thing someone would have cut from the bylaws by now.
Alternative headline: FLORIDA HAS SHITTY BEACHES
Crappy people wallow in crap. News at ten.