{"id":32702,"date":"2021-08-17T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=32702"},"modified":"2022-05-18T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:44:20","slug":"fecal-bacteria-rises-with-sea-level-on-texas-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/fecal-bacteria-rises-with-sea-level-on-texas-beaches.htm","title":{"rendered":"Fecal Bacteria Rises with Sea Level on Texas Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As climate change lifts the sea level in the Gulf of Mexico, it\u2019s lifting levels of enterococci bacteria on Texas\u2019s beaches, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New research out of the Gulf shows that high levels of enterococci bacteria, which come from humans and other animals and can cause disease, are correlated with proximity to large human populations and sea level rise and are increasing over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research highlights an area of growing concern for public health and safety on popular recreational beaches. While sea level is projected to continue rising, it\u2019s not a guarantee that bacteria levels will as well.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBacterial pollution could be expected to increase as time goes on and as the coastal population is increasing and as sea levels continue to rise,\u201d said Nicole Powers, the lead author of the study and a recent doctoral graduate from Texas A&amp;M\u2014Corpus Christi.<\/span><\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fondriest.com%2Fnews%2F%3Fp%3D32702&#038;text=The%20sea%20level%20rise%20and%20population%20growth%20affecting%20the%20beaches%20in%20Texas%20affects%20coastal%20communities%20around%20the%20world%3B%20the%20bacteria%20problem%20on%20the%20Gulf%20is%20also%20a%20problem%20elsewhere.&#038;via=FondriestEnv&#038;related=FondriestEnv' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The sea level rise and population growth affecting the beaches in Texas affects coastal communities around the world; the bacteria problem on the Gulf is also a problem elsewhere. <\/a><\/span><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fondriest.com%2Fnews%2F%3Fp%3D32702&#038;text=The%20sea%20level%20rise%20and%20population%20growth%20affecting%20the%20beaches%20in%20Texas%20affects%20coastal%20communities%20around%20the%20world%3B%20the%20bacteria%20problem%20on%20the%20Gulf%20is%20also%20a%20problem%20elsewhere.&#038;via=FondriestEnv&#038;related=FondriestEnv' target='_blank' class='bctt-ctt-btn'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n<div id=\"attachment_32705\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32705\" class=\"size-large wp-image-32705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bacteria_beach-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"bacteria beach\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bacteria_beach-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bacteria_beach-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bacteria_beach-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bacteria_beach.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">A beach visitor at a Houston beach. Beaches in Texas near large cities had higher levels of fecal bacteria. (Credit: Pixabay\/F. Muhammad)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Bacteria Rises with Sea Level, Population, and Time<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of researchers from Texas A&amp;M\u2014Corpus Christi and the Texas General Land Office analyzed beach water quality data from 2009-2020. Their analysis was recently published in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0025326X21002654?via%3Dihub\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marine Pollution Bulletin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe set out to look at recent spikes in the bacteria levels in certain regions along the Texas Coast, but we had data that spans back over ten years,\u201d Powers said. The focus shifted to long-term trends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The longer look revealed a significant problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of the 66 beaches the team analyzed, 22 regularly exceeded the U.S. EPA action level for beaches. (The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2015-10\/documents\/rec-factsheet-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPA recommends<\/a> that beach samples<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> not exceed a geometric mean of 35 colony-forming units of enterococci per 100 milliliters and that samples not exceed 130 colony forming units per 100 milliliters over in more than 10% of samples.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All but one of the beaches exceeded this recommendation multiple times and 19 beaches broke the scale\u2014they exceeded the upper limit of detection. Harris County, which includes Houston, and Matagorda County exceeded the U.S. EPA limits more than 20% of the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over time, enterococci levels have been increasing in coastal Texas. It was one of three correlations, along with rising sea levels and population that the analysis revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The Problem with Enterococci<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterococci serve as a proxy for other fecal bacteria that could harm beachgoers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn US surface waters, outdoor recreational activities such as swimming, boating, and fishing account for approximately 4 billion recreational events annually. These recreational events result in 90 million gastrointestinal, respiratory, ear, eye, or skin-related illness,\u201d the study reports. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These illnesses <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12940-017-0347-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cost<\/a> $2.2-3.7 billion<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bacteria is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wayback.archive-it.org\/414\/20200910072303\/https:\/www.tceq.texas.gov\/assets\/public\/waterquality\/swqm\/assess\/20txir\/2020_exec_summ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the leading cause<\/a> of surface water problems in Texas<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A <a href=\"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/feature\/ame\/safe-swimming?_ga=2.106570048.254566667.1563975841-1674014475.1563975841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 report<\/a> by the Environment America Research and Policy Center and Frontier Group found that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/feature\/ame\/safe-swimming?_ga=2.106570048.254566667.1563975841-1674014475.1563975841\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">over half of America\u2019s beaches<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> exceeded bacteria standards at least once in the previous year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beaches examined in this study are regularly used for recreation. The data used in the study came from<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cgis.glo.texas.gov\/Beachwatch\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Texas Beach Watch program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which monitors water quality data at recreational beaches along the Gulf Coast.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32704\" style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32704\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bacteria_beach.png\" alt=\"bacteria beach\" width=\"597\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bacteria_beach.png 597w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bacteria_beach-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Enterococcus bacteria. (Credit: Public Domain\/Wikimedia)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Possible causes for rising bacteria levels<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The study found correlation but didn\u2019t look at specific causes. Some potential explanations have been found elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rising sea levels can compromise septic systems, which can then leak sewage into the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt isn\u2019t necessarily the number of septic systems in coastal areas that are causing high bacteria levels,\u201d Powers said. \u201cI&#8217;m not saying that it&#8217;s bad to have septic systems, by any means\u2014it could have to do with the age and maintenance of those systems, as well as the condition of underground sanitary sewer systems too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bioone.org\/journals\/journal-of-coastal-research\/volume-27\/issue-4\/JCOASTRES-D-10-00129.1\/Risks-to-Coastal-Wastewater-Collection-Systems-from-Sea-Level-Rise\/10.2112\/JCOASTRES-D-10-00129.1.short\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research in North Carolina<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> showed septic and sewer systems being harmed by rising sea level and increased rainfall. Others made <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">similar findings in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecori.org\/climate-change\/2016\/9\/8\/sea-level-rise-to-reduce-effectiveness-of-home-septic-systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhode Island<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidade.gov\/green\/library\/vulnerability-septic-systems-sea-level-rise.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Florida<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The relationship between cities and enterococci pollution makes sense, too, since more people will produce more of the bacteria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team also found a difference between beaches along bays and beaches along the Gulf coast. Gulf coast beaches, which are flushed by waves more than the calmer, more protected bayside beaches, had lower levels of enterococci. Bayside beaches had higher levels of enterococci and were often closer to large cities, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSea level rise and population growth are not limited to the Gulf coast,\u201d the authors write. Many coastal communities face similar challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Environment America Research and Policy Center and Frontier Group report showed that 85% of Gulf Coast beaches exceeded bacteria recommendations for at least one day in 2018. But, 67% of West Coast beaches examined did as well. The East Coast, which had the best numbers of any region included, had 48% of beaches exceed the recommendation on at least one day. (The Great Lakes, which face different challenges than marine coastal regions, had 68% of beaches over the limit at least one day.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The infrastructure problems that contribute to this issue of bacterial pollution can be remedied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One way authorities can begin tackling this problem, according to the study\u2019s authors, is by \u201cfocusing on the maintenance and repair of coastal infrastructure that is susceptible to damage from urbanization and rising sea levels.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t just a doomsday event. There are things we can do to help and make this problem better,\u201d Powers said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fecal bacteria contaminates Texas beaches. 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