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E-coli shuts down Blind Bay beaches By Barb Brouwer MARKET NEWS STAFF
A huge and sudden spike in e-coli has closed two Blind Bay beaches to swimming and the most likely cause is goose feces. “That’s most likely the cause, but the e-coli we measure for isn’t speciated so we don’t know if it’s human or animal,” said Jen Jacobsen, Interior Health Health Protection
team leader, noting officials also don’t know if this is a type of e-coli that can make people sick. Goose poop has fouled the water because geese are congregating in the bay, preparing for the annual liftoff to warmer climes. “We usually do see more of them at this time of year and we know it’s one of the places they like to hang out. And they produce a lot of drop-
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“There are other reasons (for the high e-coli reading), including the sampler may have disturbed the sediment on the bottom of the lake.” Whether or not the test sample was contaminated by the mucky lake bottom, Jacobsen says IH recommended the beaches be closed to
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pings that get into the water,” Jacobsen says. “We’ve been sampling all summer and this is the first reading of over 100 we’ve had.” E-coli is measured by the number of colony forming units per 100 mL of water. “We start to look at closures when levels are above 400 for a single sample, and the one we got last Friday was 3,000,” Jacobsen says.
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