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Life’s a Beach — Until You Get E. coli | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)
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[–] hoot@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I suspect this was a bad sample on the part of Island Health. Surfriders sampled the same spot on Aug 20 and got a very low count: https://bwtf.surfrider.org/explore/41/475

A count over 4000 seems insanely high. Maybe the sampler scooped up some contamination, like bird crap? I don't know their methodology though, hard to say.