Fairhope, Alabama
BACTERIA IN FECES
New blinking lights designed to annoy Canada geese during the night and encourage them to re-locate have been installed along the city's municipal beach.
Similar ones installed there last year were damaged by the storm surge from hurricane Nate last October.
The feces from geese and other birds in the area were identified as one source of potentially-harmful. periodic, bay water bacteria pollution (e coli), especially after heavy rain; feces contaminate the beach and park at other times. (Human and cow were other sources found in the water.)
Canada Goose population usually peaks about this time of the year; some speculate all the noise and commotion during the annual Independence Day celebration scare some away.
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BACTERIA IN FECES
New blinking lights designed to annoy Canada geese during the night and encourage them to re-locate have been installed along the city's municipal beach.
Similar ones installed there last year were damaged by the storm surge from hurricane Nate last October.
The feces from geese and other birds in the area were identified as one source of potentially-harmful. periodic, bay water bacteria pollution (e coli), especially after heavy rain; feces contaminate the beach and park at other times. (Human and cow were other sources found in the water.)
Canada Goose population usually peaks about this time of the year; some speculate all the noise and commotion during the annual Independence Day celebration scare some away.
Comments
Why is it that we become un-civilized whenever we don a mask of anonymity. Here are my comments:
1, the temporary problem are the geese and I agree that they should be allowed to live as their habitat shrinks with more developments in the area [some developments are more despicable then the fecal matter of the geese] 2. Tax payer money could and should be spent maybe daily, for what I think is the one of the jewels of Fairhope, the Pier and the beach 3. Visitors should pay the going rate for a clean, raked beach and sanitized toilets, and not allowed to drive or walk through for free and picnic, BBQ, grill and leave behind trash without having paid their dues. Why is this so difficult to accomplish for the city of Fairhope?
a-non-y-mous [adjective]
having no outstanding, individual, or unusual features; unremarkable or impersonal.
"the anonymous black car waiting to take him to the airport"
synonyms: characterless, nondescript, impersonal, faceless
"an anonymous housing development"
The measures taken to date by the current administration have been ineffective, and the time has come for our citizens to have a clean beach. The beach is not for the geese rather it is for the citizens. Time for the mayor's staff to implement other procedures to eliminate the geese.
By the way, these geese are permanent residents and not migratory. They nested here in the spring and there were numerous goslings on the beach. This situation is ridiculous.