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If there was ever an appropriate time for that emoji....
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This sucks. Sampling done the day after that sewer break so hopefully it will clear quickly.
Four Metro Vancouver beaches unsafe for swimming due to E. coli
Megan Devlin
Jun 24 2024
Warm weather in Metro Vancouver means a cool dip in the ocean finally sounds appealing, but users of several popular beaches and waterways are being warned about hazardously high E. coli levels.
Right now, E. coli levels are high at Second Beach, Third Beach, and Sunset Beach in downtown Vancouver. Ambleside Beach in West Vancouver is also impacted....
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/beac...wimming-e-coli |
All of this shjould be a wake up call to the promoters who trumpet Vancouver as "The Greenest City on Earth." Serious attention has to be paid to this, particularly with the city growing as fast as it is.
Some cities, like Stockholm, have, apparently, remarkably pristine urban waters. The Thames in London was once an open sewer, and is now, apparently swimmable.
There are systems (expensive and elaborate, to be sure) that can take the effluent, with all the scheiss, and filter it to the point where it is drinkable again. Such is the case in much of SE England.
Anyway, if nothing else ... Please ... Cut out this laughable "Greenest City in The World" stuff.
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