Imperial Beach and Coronado had the highest number of beach closures in more than a decade last year, including through tourist season
In total, signage alerting people to sewage contamination was posted last year on 133 days along the Silver Strand and a whopping 249 days in Imperial Beach. In Coronado, 44 of the 51 days that the city’s shoreline included sewage signage were during spring and summer months.
Youth programs also were negatively affected. The Cal State Games Jr. Lifeguard competition in Coronado wasYMCA Camp Surf just north of Imperial Beach got hit especially hard. Enrollment was reportedly down as parents voiced concerns about the lack of ocean access. While individual swimmers have discretion over whether to get in the water, many business aren’t willing to risk the liability when signs are posted.
“This whole conversation wouldn’t be happening if we didn’t have the ongoing effluent from Punta Bandera,” said Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre. The closures and warnings are necessary to protect beachgoers from dangerously high levels of bacteria and viruses, according to county public health officials. Swimmers who ignore the restrictions could be at risk of diarrhea, fever, respiratory disease, meningitis and even paralysis.
Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey has questioned whether his city’s beaches are any more polluted than in past years or if the threshold for a bacterial exceedance under the new DNA testing has been set unnecessarily low.
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