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Pollution related beach closings way up { August 5 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040805-1613-beaches.html http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040805-1613-beaches.html Report: Pollution-related beach closings way up in county 4:13 p.m. August 5, 2004 SAN DIEGO – Pollution-related beach closings and advisory days were up about 38 percent in San Diego County last year, according to an annual water quality report published Thursday by the Natural Resources Defense Council. There were a total of 896 days of closures and advisories at the county's 107 beach reporting stations last year, compared to 556 in 2002, according to the report titled, "Testing the Waters: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches." Although up from 2002, the number of closure and advisory days in San Diego County last year was down from 1,349 in 2000 and 931 in 2001, according to the NRDC. Nationally, the report found that the number of beach closure and advisory days jumped from 12,078 in 2002 to 18,284 last year, which the NRDC attributed to a combination of beach water quality and better monitoring. "We know that the high bacteria levels that cause most closings and advisories come from two sources – inadequately treated sewage and contaminated storm water," said Nancy Stoner, director of the NRDC's Clean Water Project. "We have a major water system breakdown across the country, and local, state and federal authorities need to wake up and fix it." Statewide, there were 5,384 days of closures and advisories in 2003, versus 4,553 the previous year, according to the report. Los Angeles County led the state with 1,459 closure and advisory days, followed by Orange County with 1,329. About 73 percent of the closing/advisory days in San Diego County last year were due to monitoring that revealed elevated bacteria levels. Of those, 88 percent were from unknown sources of contamination, 10 percent were from storm water and two percent were from unspecified sources. About 22 percent of closing/advisory days were in response to known sewage spills, 4 percent were preemptive rain advisories and 1 percent were in response to miscellaneous circumstances, such as "floatables," algal blooms and strong waves. Sections of Mission Bay accounted for nearly a third of San Diego's closing and advisory days in 2003, according to the NRDC. San Diego's water quality problems were exacerbated by increased urbanization and storm drains that discharge untreated runoff from streets, curbs and gutters into the ocean, according to the report. Information for the report was compiled from monitoring data at 107 San Diego beach stations.

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