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Hopping along
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▪ Sports pg 25
Editorial pg 6
Entertainment .
Photo by Gerard Creces
It's all downhill from here
Concerned residents flooded the Columbus Centre Saturday to peruse the
Maitland Valley Conservation Authority's 100 -year erosion mapping, as well �s
to have their geological concems addressed. See the full story on page 8.
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No chance for
Blue Flag after
stormy July
Gerard Cradles
signal -star staff
Goderich's three beaches will be barren of blue flags
for yet another summer, regardless of the outcome of the
next two weeks of water testing.
The news was given to Goderich's Evironment Com-
mittee earlier this month, after a particularly stormy July
increased e -coli levels along Main, St. Christopher's and
Rotary Cove Beach.
Goderich's Environmental Services Techonologist Jen-
nette Walker said in order to make a passing grade for
Blue Flag status, there must be fewer than 100 colony -
forming units (cfu) of e -coli per 100 millilitres of water
for 80 per cent of'the samples taken.
Currently, Goderich's beaches have collectively failed
six of 22 tests, four of which were in the month of July.
"June was really good. Unfortunately, July was not a
great month for us," she said. "July was a 50 per cent
pass, 50 per cent fail."
The highest reading came from samples taken July
7, where the average for Rotary Cove was 1,282
cfu/ l 00mL.
The lowest reading of the month was 18 cfu/ 100mL,
taken just five days earlier on July 2.
The sporadic nature of sampling means samples taken
within inches of each other can produce very different
results. '
"You could test the same water in the same place, in
the same minute and it could be totally different," Walker
said.
• Each beach has five sampling sites, with the average
amount of e -coli calculated for all five making up the
geometric mean. •
"We take five samples at each one of those sites in ap-
proximately waist -deepwater, said Bob Worsell, public
health manager at the Huron County Health Unit. "Even
though it's five samples, it's one number."
Weather has been the single greatest contributor to
the high e -coli levels, according to both Wacker and the
Health Unit.
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