(Nanticoke, MD) - Cove Road Beach is currently under an advisory due to elevated bacteria levels. These elevated levels are typically seen after prolonged periods of heavy rainfall. It will be re-sampled today and results will be available tomorrow afternoon.
Children, the elderly, pregnant women, and those with a weakened immune system are most likely to get sick from swimming in contaminated water. They are also most likely to become seriously ill from exposure to waterborne illnesses.
Exposure to bacteria, viruses, and parasites in contaminated water can cause symptoms and diseases ranging from ear, nose, and eye infections to diarrhea, vomiting, hepatitis, encephalitis, skin rashes, and respiratory illnesses. You can reduce your risk of getting sick by following these tips:
· Pay attention to contamination and advisory warnings and stay out of polluted water.
· Avoid swimming at beaches after heavy rainfall.
· Stay out of murky or foul-smelling water.
· Avoid beach water if you have an open wound or infection.
· Swim without putting your head under water.
Roaring Point Beach does not have elevated bacteria levels.
For questions, residents may call the Department of Environmental Health at (410) 546-4446 or visit www.wicomicohealth.org.
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This seems to happen every year. Is this the only location on the Shore that has this problem?
ReplyDeleteWe went swimming there all day Monday, should we be concerned and checked out or are we clear??
ReplyDeleteHeavy rains cause all the sewage treatment plants to overflow raw sewage into the rivers and bays.
ReplyDeleteI mean it's the farmers who have crops growing and all those vegetation barriers polluting with their chicken poop sheds and fertilizers they applied last spring. Yeah, that's it! The farmers, yeah!
Yep only happens at the Cove location after rain fall, the property to the right when pulling in does not have an updated septic system. No mound, no BAT system. The property also floods during heavy rain events. Flooded property + submerged septic = elevated bacteria levels. A few tide cycles after the rain should wash it out. Frequent Cove visitors will notice the property on the left when pulling in now has a mound system.
ReplyDelete1013 i am sure all the doctors on this site will respond to your concerns
ReplyDeleteMight have to go to the place down from ECI, Raccoon point I think?
ReplyDeleteJust go to the Wicomico River in the city. Super clean!!
ReplyDeleteThat's in Bivalve not Nanticoke, but I guess the county people don't know the difference or care.
ReplyDeleteI grew up on that beach, swam, crabbed up the creek, dug soft shell clams on the sand bars and had beach parties with bonfires. I was never sick from the water and swallow many a gallon. I stayed in there so long I had a mud mustache when I got out. There was probably much more bacteria going in then than now as some people drained all gray household water into ditches that drained into the river(and probably other stuff) and the creek that comes out of there. Maybe I just built up an immunity to the bacteria.
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ReplyDeleteYep, the former mare fixed the Wicomico!
If you don't live with 5 miles of the cove, please stay away. The water is dangerous to non-locals and busybodies that worry about who has what septic system.
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