What are the Sources of Beach Pollution?
The following sections describe the different contaminating agents considered as sources of beach pollutants carried-off by storm water: Urban Water Runoffs • Urban sources include rooftops where bird droppings and cat litter are present. • Parking lots include oil, grease, and other forms of trash, which are carried by vehicles or adheres to tires during road travels. Recreational and truck trailers coming from long distance travels reportedly unload illicit discharges of their vehicle’s on-board toilet tanks into storm drains during stopovers. • Alleyways and streets, littered with fecal material from stray animals like rodents, or other forms of garbage carelessly thrown away by humans. • Construction sites, where solvents, paints, scrap metals and iron discards are strewn around the areas. • Dry weather runoffs resulting from landscape irrigations. These often carry pesticides and chemical-based fertilizers, or highly chlorinated water drained from residential and commercially inst
