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Beach Advisories and Closures for 2009
- "For the 2009 swimming season, all thirty coastal states, five territories, and two tribes reported their beach monitoring and notification data to EPA. In 2009, of the 3,819 coastal beaches that were monitored, 1,642 (43 percent) had at least one advisory or closure. The increase in beaches with actions can be attributed to increased monitoring, a wetter swimming season in the Northeast, and the inclusion this year of actions due to county-wide preemptive rainfall advisories." - excerpt from the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 Summary Season Update.
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