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  • Health risk of bathing in Southern California coastal waters

    Creator:
    Brinks, Mitchell V.
    Abstract:
    Bathers exposed to microbiological contamination in coastal waters have an excess risk of gastrointestinal and respiratory illness. The disease burden associated with this risk may be considerable in Southern California, where 50 million annual beach visitors recreate in coastal waters that receive billions of gallons of polluted discharges from nearby...
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    Masters Thesis
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    among bathers. The current U.S. EPA and California water quality guidelines are based on the