CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Earlier this week, a national research group released its ‘Safe for Swimming?’ report regarding water quality at beaches across the U.S.
“All too often there is bacteria at our beaches,” said John Rumpler, Clean Water Director for Environment America, the authors of the report. “We compared it to a safety threshold which has to do with the risk of swimmers getting sick. And we found that all too often many of South Carolina’s beaches exceeded that safety threshold for bacteria last year.”…