The nonprofit Suncoast Waterkeeper’s most water quality test results conducted July 30 found “don’t swim” levels of enterococci bacteria — bacteria that lives in the intestinal tracts of warm-blood animals — at all locations tested.
The nonprofit conducted tests at Palma Sola Causeway North, the Longboat Key Boat Ramp, the Historic Bridge Street Pier and Robinson Preserve, as well as at Sarasota locations.
A notice from Suncoast Waterkeeper said, the “survey was conducted in the morning with a tide that shifted from incoming to outgoing. Our monitoring results illustrate unsafe swimming conditions in all of our bayside locations.”
For more information, go to suncoastwaterkeeper.org.
— Lisa Neff