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High bacteria counts at Obama beach

Larrry

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Will bacteria count beach Barack Obama?
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Friday, August 20, 2010 - Updated 3 hours ago


E-mail Print (114) Comments Text size Share Buzz up!WEST TISBURY - Welcome to Martha’s Vineyard, Mr. President - but don’t go in the water!

President Obama, who took a plunge in the Gulf last week to show Americans it was safe to swim the oil spill-plagued area, arrived on this supposedly pristine island yesterday in the midst of a rash of bacteria-induced beach closings.

Portions of Tisbury Great Pond, the salt-water lagoon fronting the first family’s vacation estate Blue Heron Farm, were closed earlier this week due to high levels of enterococci, an indicator that the water is contaminated with fecal coliform bacteria. Ew.

High levels of enterococci can cause skin irritation, vomiting or diarrhea in swimmers. Which could ruin anyone’s vacation!

West Tisbury health agent John Powers said Long Cove Pond and Sepiessa Point Beach on Tisbury Great Pond were closed to swimming Tuesday after both failed water-quality testing. The two beaches are public and located not too far from the Obamas’ private beach. Because the beach on Blue Heron Farm is not accessible to the public, it is not subject to water-quality tests, Powers said.

http://www.bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view/20100820will_bacteria_count_beach_barack_obama/srvc=home&position=2

And here I fugured Marthas Vineyard would be FULL of IT after he left
 
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