A beach in Atlantic City and several Cape May County beaches are among at least 13 Jersey Shore waterfront locations under an advisory Wednesday due to high fecal bacteria levels.
What does a water safety advisory mean?
The state lays out what a water safety advisory means as they monitor about 195 ocean and 25 bay monitoring stations each week: "Samples are analyzed for the presence of Enterococci, a type of bacteria found in animal and human waste that is an indicator of possible poor bathing water quality. The New Jersey State Sanitary Code requires that the concentration of bacteria not exceed 104 colonies of Enterococci bacteria per 100 milliliters of sample. An exceedance of this concentration may be harmful to human health .
The beaches under the advisory -- where swimming is still permitted -- face another round of testing. Should that testing come back with unsafe levels of bacteria, the beaches will be closed. "When a sample exceeds the state standard, a swimming advisory is issued and additional sampling is conducted and continues each day until the sample result is below 104 Enterococci/100 mL. If two consecutive daily samples exceed the standard, the bathing beach closes until sample results are below the standard."
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