{"id":12189,"date":"2020-02-06T12:53:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch-draft\/?page_id=12189"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:58:25","slug":"bacteria","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/data\/bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">Bacteria Monitoring Data<\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>People (and pets) can get sick from swimming in, swallowing, or eating shellfish harvested in polluted water. Fortunately, while swimming-related illnesses are unpleasant, they usually are not very serious and require little or no treatment. The most common illness is gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the stomach and the intestines that can cause symptoms like vomiting, headaches, and fever. Other minor illnesses include ear, eye and throat infections.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the RI Department of Health\u2019s website to learn more, including data from other marine beaches with bacteria levels that exceed swimming criteria (<a href=\"https:\/\/health.ri.gov\/data\/beaches\/volunteergroups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/health.ri.gov\/data\/beaches\/volunteergroups\/<\/a>) and PLEASE report any illnesses that may have been the result of exposure to contaminated water \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/health.ri.gov\/beaches\/about\/illness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/health.ri.gov\/beaches\/about\/illness\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While URI WW\u2019s Analytical Laboratories are State certified, Watershed Watch data is intended for screening purposes only. However our data are very valuable for targeting areas of concerns and for tracking potential sources of bacterial contamination. Samples from various sites may have been collected over a period of days for each collection period, so may reflect dry versus wet weather or rain event values.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12198\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/bacteria-dashboard-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/bacteria-dashboard-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/bacteria-dashboard-1024x472.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/bacteria-dashboard-768x354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/bacteria-dashboard-1536x708.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/bacteria-dashboard-364x168.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/bacteria-dashboard-500x231.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/bacteria-dashboard-1000x461.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/bacteria-dashboard-1280x590.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/bacteria-dashboard.jpg 1579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <strong>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/02149236313149d49b784d9dea471ca7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Bacteria Monitoring Results dashboard<\/a> &nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/2025-Bacteria\/\">2026 Bacteria Data Tables<\/a> (Updated 3\/9\/2026)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/2025-Bacteria\/\">2025 Bacteria Data Tables<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/2024-bacteria\/\">2024 Bacteria Data Tables<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteria Monitoring Data People (and pets) can get sick from swimming in, swallowing, or eating shellfish harvested in polluted water. Fortunately, while swimming-related illnesses are unpleasant, they usually are not very serious and require little or no treatment. The most common illness is gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the stomach and the intestines that can cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3449,"featured_media":0,"parent":11256,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-12189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12189"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14763,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12189\/revisions\/14763"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}