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2007 Summary Results
How many notification actions were reported
and how long were they?
Rhode Island's approach is to issue a beach advisory
when water quality standards are exceeded at
a particular beach that warns people to avoid
contact with the water. A total of 15 monitored
beaches had at least one advisory issued during
the 2007 swimming season. About 76 percent of
Rhode Island's 33 notification actions lasted two
days or less. Figure 2 presents a full breakdown of
notification action durations.
What percentage of days were beaches under a
notification action?
For Rhode Island's 2007 swimming season, actions
were reported about 1 percent of the time (Figure 3).
How do 2007 results compare to previous years?
Table 2 compares 2007 notification action data with
monitored beach data from previous years.
What pollution sources impact monitored
beaches?
Figure 4 displays the percentage of Rhode Island's
monitored beaches potentially impacted by various
pollution sources. In 2007, 93 percent of the beaches
were listed as having unidentified sources of
pollution.
For More Information
For general information about beaches:
www.epa.gov/beaches/
For information about beaches in Rhode Island:
www.ribeaches.org/index.cfm
Figure 2: Beach notification actions by duration.

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Figure 3:
Table 2. Beach notification actions, 2005-2007.

2005
2006
2007
Number of monitored
beaches
70
74
68
Number of beaches
affected by notification
actions
14
17
15
Percentage of beaches
affected by notification
actions
20%
23%
22%
Percentage of beach
days affected by
notification actions
2%
6%
1%
Figure 4: Percent of monitored beaches potentially impacted by pollution sources (68 beaches).
Percent of beaches
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Pollution sources not investigated
Agricultural runoff
Boat discharge
Cone, animal feeding operation
Publicly-owned treatment works
Non-storm related runoff
Septic system leakage
Sewer line leak or break
Sanitary/Combined sewer overflow
Storm-related runoff
Wildlife
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No known pollution sources
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Beach days
with no action
6,762
(99%)
Beach days with
and without
notification
actions.
Beach days
with an action:
69
(1%)
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