Last year wasn't a good time to be a beach bum in Northern California, thanks to oily, polluted water that caused an unusual number of closures and health warnings, particularly in the San Francisco area, according to a Natural Resources Defense Council report released Wednesday.
The 20th annual beach water report, Testing the Waters: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches, examined state and local data from 200 of the most popular U.S. beaches. Seven percent of the water samples of beaches nationwide and 9 percent of the samples in California violated state health standards in 2009.
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