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Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back In The Water - The Clean Beaches Report

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Wayzata Lakes Realty: Eric Kodner Sells Twin Cities Homes

  

The Clean Beaches Council has come out with its 2007 ratings for America's most "clean and healthy beaches".  The Council is a non-profit organization that has been rating beaches since 1998 (The United Nations' "International Year of the Ocean") and they release an annual "Blue Wave Beaches" list of the cleanest beaches in the United States.

The Council tests for water quality, bacteriological cleanliness, sand contamination and the presence of contaminants that wash up on-shore.  Factors such as oil-spill contamination and the presence of biohazard waste are taken into account. 

The 2007 list includes beaches in Florida, California, Washington State, Oregon, Hawaii, Alabama, Delaware, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Mississippi, New York, New Jersey, North and South Carolina, Virginia and Texas.  Also included are beaches in American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Council offers an online e-newsletter, True Blue, which provides updated information on environmental concerns and progress in cleaning up America's beaches.

 

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Contact Broker Eric Kodner with Wayzata Lakes Realty about Minneapolis & Saint Paul area properties, including Lake Minnetonka, Edina and the Minneapolis City Lakes area (Lake Calhoun, Lake of the Isles, Lake Harriet). We also sell on the Saint Croix River and on Lake Superior, including Bayfield, Wisconsin and Madeline Island homes.  With sixteen years experience marketing and selling waterfront properties in Minnesota and Wisconsin, we know Lake Minnetonka and Madeline Island real estate.

Wayzata Lakes Realty LLC (Minnesota) and Madeline Island Realty LLC (Wisconsin)

Real Estate Brokerage licensed in Minnesota & Wisconsin

Phone or Text Message 612.670.2539

EMKodner@Gmail.com  or

MadelineIsland@Gmail.com

Wayzata Lakes Realty

 

 

 

 

Comments (4)

Jeff Dowler, CRS
eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA
The Southern California Relocation Dude

Eric:

Hmm, I see none of MY local beaches made the list. Do they rate the lake beaches? I always enjoyed White Bear Lake when we lived nearby.

Jeff

Oct 05, 2007 01:36 AM
Eric Kodner
Wayzata Lakes Realty: Eric Kodner Sells Twin Cities Homes - Minnetonka, MN
Wayzata Lakes Realty: Twin Cities, Madeline Island

Jeff, I think the lake beaches are rated largely on bacteria count.  They're looking for e-coli and giardia contamination mostly.  So I imagine if a lake has a lot of private sanitary systems around it, rather than a community sewer system, that could be a factor. 

The Wisconsin part of Lake Superior made the list this year, but not the Minnesota side.  I'm guessing it's because there's more stuff that washes up onshore from coal and iron ore barges in Duluth harbor and along the North Shore.

Oct 05, 2007 01:54 AM
Karen Anne Stone
New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Real Estate
Eric:  I just read the list.  How come no listings for Cleveland ?  Lake Erie is so much nicer than it used to be.  White silver sands, cool blue water.  How could they miss Lake Eric ?
Oct 08, 2007 05:10 PM
Eric Kodner
Wayzata Lakes Realty: Eric Kodner Sells Twin Cities Homes - Minnetonka, MN
Wayzata Lakes Realty: Twin Cities, Madeline Island

Karen Anne,

I think the Clean Beaches Council also reports on bodies of water that are improving in water quality and they make changes in their ratings as time goes along.  For example, the Fox River in Racine, Wisconsin used to be considered a very polluted river.  The pollution was supposedly caused by water contamination from discharged waste emitted by paper mills.  Over time, the area has been cleaned up considerably and Racine has moved up in the ratings.

Maybe there's hope for Lake Erie after all!

Oct 08, 2007 05:33 PM