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Health Threats from Polluted Coastal Waters - Recreational use of rivers, lakes, and the ocean is immensely popular in the U.S. and includes activities such as swimming, surfing, paddling, and diving. Over 143 million people in the U.S. use surface waters to engage in non-motorized water sports. While some pollutants in the water are easily identifiable and avoidable, such as plastic debris and garbage, unseen microbial threats continue to pose serious risk to recreational water users health. The best way to stay healthy during your next trip to the beach is to be aware of any issued advisories or closures. Learn more here!
Today's Coastal Factoid
More high-tide flooding expected from 2018 El Nino
- "This year’s outlook predicts an above-average number of high-tide flooding days from May 2018-April 2019 for spots on both coasts. Overall, high tide flood frequencies are predicted to be 60% higher this year across U.S. coastlines compared to the year 2000." - Excerpt from NOAA.
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State of the Beach
The Surfrider Foundation State of the Beach report is our continually-updated assessment of the health of our nation’s beaches. It is intended to empower concerned citizens and coastal managers by giving them the information needed to take action. For over ten years we have been collecting information on beach access, surf zone water quality, beach erosion, beach fill, shoreline structures, beach ecology and surfing areas to get an understanding of the condition of our nation’s beaches and the effectiveness of programs and policies designed to protect them.
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Why Beachapedia?
Beachapedia captures decades of experience and knowledge gained by Surfrider Foundation activists, scientists and staff through hundreds of environmental and educational campaigns on our coasts. By sharing this resource with the public we hope to provide tools and information to help communities make a positive impact on their local beaches. If you would like to contribute please visit this page.
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- Access Point
- Accretion
- Administrative Procedure
- Aeolian Transport
- Aquaculture
- Aquapedia
- Armoring
- Army Corps of Engineers
- Army Corps of Engineers - Working with the Corps
- Artificial Surfing Reefs
- Artificial Turf
- Atoll
B
- Backshore
- Backwash
- Bacteria
- Bacteria in Sand
- Bacterial Pollution, Tracking the Sources
- Bar
- Barrier Beach
- Barrier Island
- Beach
- Beach Access
- Beach Cleanups
- Beach Cusp
- Beach Driving
- Beach Ecology
- Beach Fill
- Beach Grooming
- Beach Is Alive
- Beach Loss
- Beach Manifesto
- Beach Monitoring
- Beach Narrowing
- Beach Profile
- Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act of 2000
- Benthic Zone
- Berm
- Bioaccumulation
- Biomagnification
- Bioplastics
- Bitou Bush
- Blowout
- Blue Carbon
- Blue Water Task Force
- Blue-Green Algae
- Bluff
- Borrow Site
- Brackish Water
- Breakwater
- Building Setback
- Bulkheads
C
- California State Lands Commission
- Cesspools
- Cigarette Butt Litter
- Clean Water Act
- Clean Water Initiative
- Climate Change
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Closure Depth
- Coastal Access in California
- Coastal Act and the California Coastal Commission
- Coastal Barrier Resources Act
- Coastal Compartment
- Coastal ISFSI for Nuclear Waste
- Coastal Plain
- Coastal Resilience
- Coastal Zone Management Act
- Combined Sewer Overflows
- Composting Toilets
- Contaminated Sediments
- Coral Bleaching
- Cruise Ship Pollution
- Cyanobacteria
D
- Dam Removal in Coastal Watersheds
- Dead Zones
- Deflation
- Desalination
- Dispersants
- Domoic Acid and Sea Lions
- Downdrift
- Drugs in the Water
- Dry Weather Diversions
- Dry Weather Diversions in California - Diverted by Diversions?
- Dune
- Dune Profile
- Dune Restoration
- Dune Walkover
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- Ebb Current
- Ebb Tidal Delta
- Economic Impact of Beaches
- Ecosystem Services Valuation
- Ecosystem-Based Management
- Entrainment
- Environment Effects Act 1978 (Victoria, Australia)
- Environmentally Friendly Surfboards
- Epidemiology Studies
- Erosion
- Erosion Hot Spots
- Erosion Response
- Erosion Watchspots
- Erosion and Coastal Management in Florida
- Erosion, Passive
- Estuary
- Eustatic Sea-Level Rise
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G cont.
- Golf Courses: Friend or Foe?
- Gradient
- Graywater Systems
- Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development
- Green Streets
- Groin
- Groundwater
- Grunion
- Gully
- Gyre
H
- Hands Across the Sand
- Hard Stabilization
- Harmful Algal Blooms
- Health Threats from Polluted Coastal Waters
- Healthy Soils
- High Water Line
- Historic Preservation and Surf Resources
- Hold On To Your Butt
- Hurricane Sandy - The Response
- Hurricanes
- Hydrography
- Hydromodification
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- Illicit Connections and Illicit Discharges
- Impervious Surface
- Impingement
- Indirect Potable Reuse
- Infiltration Capacity
- Integrated Water Management
- International Surfing Day
- Intertidal Zone
- Isostatic
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K
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- LNG (Liquified Natural Gas)
- Lake
- Levee
- Littoral Cell
- Littoral Drift
- Littoral System
- Living Shorelines
- Longshore Current
- Longshore Sediment Transport
- Low Impact Surf Contests
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- Making Waves
- Managed Retreat
- Mangroves
- Marine Debris
- Marine Layer
- Marine Life Protection Act (California)
- Marine Protected Areas
- Marine Resource Committees (Washington)
- Marine Spatial Planning
- Maritime Transport Pollution
- Mean Sea Level
- Meander
- Microbeads
- Microfibers
- Mitigation Through Surf Enhancement
- Montauk 8 - A Legal Perspective
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- NEPA, CEQA, and EISs
- NPDES: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
- National Ocean Policy
- Neap Tide
- Nearshore
- Nodal Point
- Nonpoint Source Pollution
- Nor’easters
- Not the Answer
- Nurdle
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- Oblique Wave Approach
- Ocean Acidification
- Ocean Currents
- Ocean Friendly Gardens
- Ocean Friendly Gardens Activist Toolkit
- Ocean Friendly Gardens Criteria
- Ocean Health Index
- Ocean Planning
- Ocean Preservation: A Historical Perspective
- Ocean Reports
- Offshore
- Offshore Oil Drilling
- Oil Pollution Act of 1990
- Once-through Cooling
- Opportunistic Beach Fill
- Overwash
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- Peat
- Pelagic Zone
- Perigean
- Perigean Spring Tides
- Personal Watercraft
- Pet Waste
- Placement Loss
- Plastic Bags
- Plastic Bottles
- Plastic Pollution Facts and Figures
- Plunge Pool
- Pocket Beach
- Pollution Source Tracking
- Polystyrene
- Pratte's Reef
- Predictive Modeling for Beach Water Quality
- Pulp Mills
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R cont.
- Revetment
- Ridge
- Riffle
- Rigs to Reefs
- Rill
- Rip Currents
- Riparian
- Riprap
- Rise Above Plastics
- River
- River mouth
- Riverbank
- Riverbed
- Rolling Easements
- Runnel
- Runoff
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- Sand
- Sand Bags
- Sand Compatibility
- Sand Mining
- Sand Waves
- Sanitary Surveys
- Scarp
- Scarping
- Scour
- Sea
- Sea Breeze
- Sea Foam
- Sea Level Rise
- Seafloor Mining
- Seamounts
- Seawalls
- Seawalls/Photo Gallery
- Sediment
- Sediment Load
- Seismic Surveys
- Semi-Hard Stabilization
- Septic Systems
- Sewer Laterals
- Sewer Systems and Sewage Treatment
- Shadow Effect
- Sharks
- Sharks - White Sharks in California
- Sheetflow
- Shifting Baselines
- Shifting Baselines in the Surf
- Shoal
- Shoreline
- Shoreline Structures
- Single Use Plastics
- Slough
- Soft Stabilization
- Sort
- Spoil
- Spring Tide
- Staph Infections
- State of the Beach
- Storm Drain
- Storm Surge
- Stormwater
- Stream
- Stream Terrace
- Sunscreens and Skin Damage from Sun Exposure
- Surf Zone Water Quality
- Surfer Health Study
- Surferpedia
- Surfing Area Protection
- Surfing Etiquette
- Surfing is Not a Crime
- Surfonomics
- Swale
- Swash
- Swell
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- TMDLs and Impaired Water Bodies
- Terminal Groin
- Texas Open Beaches Act
- Tidal Bore
- Tidal Inlet
- Tidal Prism
- Tidal range
- Tidepool
- Tides
- Tombolo
- Transpiration
- Tributary
- Tsunami
- Tsunami Marine Debris
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