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2010 Summary Results
How many notification actions were reported
and how long were they?
When water quality standards are exceeded at a
particular beach, Georgia issues a beach advisory
that warns people to avoid contact with the ocean
water. A total of 13 monitored beaches had at least
one advisory issued during the 2010 swimming
season. Figure 2 presents a full breakdown of
notification action durations.
What percentage of days were beaches under a
notification action?
For Georgia's 2010 swimming season, actions were
reported about four percent of the time (Figure 3).
How do 2010 results compare to previous years?
Table 2 compares 2010 notification action data with
monitored beach data from previous years.
What pollution sources possibly affect
investigated monitored beaches?
Sources of pollution possibly affecting Georgia's
investigated monitored beaches were not identified
in 2010 (Figure 4).
Figure 2: Beach notification actions by duration.
2	3-7	8-30
Duration of Actions (days)
Figure 3:
For More Information
For general information about beaches:
www.epa.gov/beaches/
For information about beaches in Georgia:
http://GaHealthvBeaches .or g
Table 2. Beach notification actions, 2008-2010.
2008	2009	2010
Number of monitored	OT	OT	OT
beaches
Number of beaches
affected by notification	12	10	13
actions
Percentage of beaches
affected by notification 44%	37%	48%
actions
Percentage of beach
days affected by	1 %	4%	4%
notification actions
Figure 4: Percent of investigated monitored beaches
affected by possible pollution sources (27 beaches).
0 10 20 30
Investigated / no sources found
Non-storm related runoff
Storm-related runoff
Agricultural runoff
Boat discharge
Cone, animal feeding operation
Combined sewer overflow
Sanitary sewer overflow
Publicly-owned treatment works
Sewer line leak or break
Septic system leakage
Wildlife
Other (identified) source(s)
Unidentified source(s)
Percent of beaches
40 50 60 70
90 100
Note: A single beach may
have multiple sources.
100
Beach days
with no action
8,245
(96%)
Beach days with
and without
notification
actions.
Beach days
with an action:
340
(4%)
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