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OriginalNameDoNotSteal
Didn't know they piled shit that high in Texas
twisteddkarma
CaptainBlacklung
I wipe, and I wipe, and I wipe, but still poop.
IWasACatAllAlong
And... it's human poop?
TCGView
In Corpus Christi and yep, this happened in 2020. Happens every year really, just to different extents. All us locals know about it.
TRexine
Land of the poop, home of the shitheads.
ActionJohnnie
Ted Cruz gone swimming?
Snodave
I wonder what California would look like if they did a similar study. Hmm
reynoldser
https://environmentamerica.org/sites/environment/files/reports/AME%20Safe%20for%20Swimming%20Jul19-web%20revd072319-2.pdf
whistlebuzz
If you’ve ever smelled the Texas gulf coast, this does not surprise you at all.
scifinovelist
As much as it may be fun to poke fun at TX for lack of regulatory prudence, on our CA beaches it's local warm streams that cause trouble
HangingOnTheEdgeOfTomorrow
There are corporations who ignore regulations just to stick it to the government, and just calculate fines as part operating costs.
scifinovelist
As a former risk manager, I can tell you we're always trying to figure out damages vs probability vs insurability vs compliance costs.
FentuckyCriedKhicken
Human poop?
justamanwhoknowshowtofeel
This is an important question I also have
maddcovv
Which poop type would be ok?
redsmerf
So, what I'm seeing is... It gets cleaner the closer you are to Mexico.
SyrianBeans
In every aspect (Houstonian)
mondeca
The dots are where people live, so it's really cleaner where the people aren't.
NomDeImguerre
Well, shit.
LoNeSt4r
Houston is pretty shitty, that’s true
gregthewalrus
Like we all knew it but now we have the science to back it up
Bystandr
Secondary sewage treatment and elimination of residential septic fields can turn it around quickly as the ocean has a high capacity to
Bystandr
clear most of the solids once the volume of flow falls below what it can process, is the good news.
reynoldser
Since @op didn't include links, here is the source data. National issue, y'all. https://environmenttexas.org/reports/txe/safe-swimming-0
reynoldser
The articles url is over 140 characters but its San Antonio Current, author Sanford Nowlin. If you Google that.
Isatronium
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2020/07/23/report-theres-so-much-poop-along-the-texas-coast-swimming-could-make-you-sick
EDoPur
Thanks for the link. I did not expect Oregon to be that bad.
reynoldser
Honestly, everyone is shitty at protecting waterways. Hopefully humans can stop destroying our ecosystems before it's too late.
JEANKULASSEC
The tides have turd
JCBalance
How the turd tables
JEANKULASSEC
Swimmers may feel like a turd wheel
ExtremelyHappyGuy
Are we really doing turdy puns on the internet? Leave it to imgur...
JEANKULASSEC
My bad. I'm French, this is as far as my English knowledge will allow me to go.
lpooptoomuch
I wonder if it's the location being in the corner of the gulf that causes poo to build up in certain spots
Mellayellafella1441
yerrific
Looks like someone mapped all sightings of the legendary T-Cruz?
QuickLighting53
Texas is such a shithole, top to bottom. Wish we could improve the education standards in the south...
reynoldser
Sure, pollution is just a Texas problem. /s https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/cleanest-and-dirtiest-beaches-America-180951869/
reynoldser
Page 2 has a map. https://environmentamerica.org/sites/environment/files/reports/AME%20Safe%20for%20Swimming%20Jul19-web%20revd072319-2.pdf
reynoldser
More sourced info to offend you https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/07/24/americas-dirtiest-beaches-here-is-the-poop/?sh=1bf2cc96623e
reynoldser
Aw, @PNW downvoting because you're provided with a source of dirtiest beaches based on NRDC research. Shocking.
ShirleyYouCantBcereus
I’ve run into them before. I only remember bc they said China’s pollution is caused by US companies. That level of stupid sticks w/ you.
aflarge
It's pretty shitty(ha), but at least they're pooping in the ocean and not just in the streets, like in California.
QuickLighting53
Uh... Texas absolutely has shit in the streets. Same homeless problem that exists everywhere. Have you not ever been downtown in Dallas?
ShirleyYouCantBcereus
Texas’s homelessness rate is ~1/4 that if California’s and Oregon’s
UnpopularFacts6
"same homeless problem exists everywhere" ROFL guess we know where PNWTurtle is from
QuickLighting53
I travel (at least pre-covid) for work quite a bit. Yes, your little shithole has a homeless problem, too. Every city in the US has it.
goflyblind
i didn't read the label at first, and i thought that that was the percentage of how much water had poop in it.
MrTrecker
HaniiPuppy
Galveston Bay Area is now just a river of poop.
RandomlyAppointedNSAAgent
TI99Kitty
Hey, look! It's Ted Cruz!
redpandabanana
Well that’s something I never expected to see again
FabulouslyTiti
In case anyone doesn't know about the Great Mighty Poo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdd4rBlsj2o ♥
OlderWiser
Turns out, most of the most polluted beaches in the US are elsewhere. https://www.thetravel.com/dirtiest-beaches-america/
maddcovv
OlderWiser
reynoldser
Also this: https://environmentamerica.org/sites/environment/files/reports/AME%20Safe%20for%20Swimming%20Jul19-web%20revd072319-2.pdf
OlderWiser
Let's say that there's a hell of a lot of polluted beaches in the US.
lightfoot2
Life in Republican-land.
TheAngryMarineBiologist
Life in Conservative-land. It's worse with Republicans but also present in states run by the other Conservative party, the Democrats.
untrugby
It happens at every beech just a quick google shows NY, Mass and Maine have the same issue. Nice try and being a political dbag though
triggrhaapi
The worst site in CA is worse than any of them in Texas. Cabrillo Beach, which is attached to the Port of LA, ships dump their poop there.
Lightsmith
The currents are a major reason. The whole gulf swirls into Tx coast. Why would Republicans allow that...........
FurtiveGlancer
Nah - most blue states are the same shit show - the problem is national problem - we've become fat, lazy and complacent
Lightsmith
Not about being republican.
lightfoot2
yeah it is
UnpopularFacts6
YeAh iT iS
Lightsmith
Nah, as others have pointed out. Exists in democratic areas too.
GrumpyOldMillennial
It is in this context because Republicans hold Texas up as a beacon of "independent republican idealism" and its a fucking disaster.
Lightsmith
No it isnt. Its about ocean currents and population density. It happens in liberal areas as well.
Netskimmer
Everyone in California reading this...
copperdomebodhi
You should try real news: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article250365161.html
Feathered69
on average California has it better, the big stuff wrong is resulting from the greedier vital companies and Texas has less regulation there.
triggrhaapi
On average, yes. At its worst, no. One of the state beaches is inside the harbor at the Port of LA, ships dump their shit in the harbor.
Krasnopeev
I know right! This occurs in democrat or republican lands. No need to point something out which is wrong
micicle
Yeah just bury your head in the sand and go for swim at the poop beaches.
AndThenThereWereSquirrels
Mismanagement and incompetence is party-agnostic. Outright intent to disrupt the workings of the government, less so.
Coyotezzz
Shaodyn
Let me guess. Sewage treatment isn't regulated either.
ThefluteCaptainPicardplayedfirstinhisimaginationtheninreallife
The western gulf of mexico is basically america's toilet, in that anything that drains there (including the Mississippi river) stays there
pajasa
It’s regulated here (UK), water company’s still put shit in the sea. Southern water were fined 90 mil for exactly this.
gdim415
I think the regulation is make sure it's down stream and down wind of my house. That's about it.
Hawkgirl203
There’s more regulation to what you stated. Down wind, down stream from the protected group of Paxton, Abbott, Cruz, Cornyn and Crenshaw.
Shamorza
You bastard, the whole system is rigged in your favor.
w1k2
DoWiSeTrePla
KennyBlankenshipandVicRomano
I hear that's a real up-and-coming neighborhood
reynoldser
It's federally regulated. But also, this isn't just a Texas issue. Humans are destroying waterways.
reynoldser
Sources: https://environmentamerica.org/sites/environment/files/reports/AME%20Safe%20for%20Swimming%20Jul19-web%20revd072319-2.pdf
reynoldser
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/cleanest-and-dirtiest-beaches-America-180951869/
reynoldser
I should also point out that the TCEQ regulates wastewater disposal. Like most environmental agencies funding and staffing are issues.
reynoldser
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/07/24/americas-dirtiest-beaches-here-is-the-poop/?sh=1bf2cc96623e
Barkinsons
My brother got a massive fever after we went to a turd beach in France, the issue there was that they charged money for toilets at the beach
Shaodyn
And probably for the same reason we're ruining the environment. Because not doing it would cost money.
Imakethingsweird
gonzar09
"No man of woman born!!!"
pandemicpolemic
cttypo
Gross. But appropriate.
DesolateMirror
Average Texan
bobothemagicalgorilla
The excremental
KStudios
And that's just Darrel. He went swimming earlier today.
Strategicgnomer
I don't get it... What's with the picture of Ted Cruz?
wolfspirit21
SHIT DEMON!!!
Goldmarble
All hail the Golgothan!
MarlenaWatches
The what??
boblives
All the people who died getting crucified shit themselves, the demon is all there poop brought together and given sentience?
Meeces
The Golgathan Shit demon.
AThreeFootTallChocolateMooseWithFudgeEyes
Hell's chief assassin
JinXLeD
From the movie “Dogma”. Actually a very good movie imho. Love the whole religious reasoning + Jay & Silent Bob
InvaderTaco
Best thing is Kevin Smith on the news at the protest of Dogma. https://youtu.be/QepgKVOVfZ8
MarlenaWatches
One of my favorite movies, I was just doing the movie quote call-back thing.
JinXLeD
I wasn’t sure if you were quoting or asking ?
Flyinglasagnamonster
Every year at this time, Turds float thousands of miles to lay their eggs on the coast
YesYouJustLostTheGameAgain
It’s just part of the Americans mating season rituals
q2grapple
Turdles!
CrackheadGermanSheppie
And the mightiest of turds will end up in the senate.
turbo22465
Must be fertile ground.
avertyereyes
Damn tourists.
maddcovv
/a/CQtu0XU
iLikeTurtles123
I like turdles
PJHabit
Turdlets, if you will..
mooooooose
I will.
PersonalityFire
Turditos.
fredsneed
Mr. Hankey.
JackTheRippersBrotherHowie
is this how conservatives are born?
STEVIERAYK
The circle of life.
Blackmetalhappiness
Their annual migration?
Pikkupanda
Why? Well, as They Might Be Giants say, it's nobody's business but the Turds'.
Kateness
That is probably the worst thing I have laughed out loud at in a very long time. If that isn't worth an upvote, I don't know what is.
kirmes
and then they hatch and grow up and become new republican voters.
thisisagreatusernamedontworryitswonderful
And the poop is just insane, too
Allthegoodsnamesweretaken
Within months, those eggs will hatch into what we now know as the Texan.
mymidlifecrisiswasat23
Rootin’ tootin’ time to make a texan, so lets go poopin’
Barkinsons
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ShadyGlamorousCommongonolek-mobile.mp4
boiphamet
This made me chuckle. I am a Texan, and a majority of the time, I am a turd.
Mockingbirb
One of those turds is even a senator now!
aChungusAmongUs
Seems like every day TX converts a little bit more into a shit show
PerpetuityPhoto
Well, they just removed all of their history curriculum that paints the KKK in a "Morally wrong" light, so... you're not wrong.
triggrhaapi
More or less, it's a race with Florida to the bottom.
CatatonicCowMoo
Ba dum tss
WordsAndImages
marsgoose
Please spread the word, especially if you hear someone considering to move to Texas.
bobothemagicalgorilla
Help I'm stuck here. It's been weeks. I can feel the stupid taking over. We can hold on for much longer. Requesting extraction.
marsgoose
Get in a car and start driving north.
bobothemagicalgorilla
ARGHHHHH!!!!! Cars are a socialist plot to help China take over our abortion clinics. SHEEPLE!!!! GUNSSS!!!! .................BLEHHHH
DeliriousDerp
*dramatically removes glasses* It's...it's too late. He's gone.
PostMoThoin
Miami is the penis tx is the (dirty) butthole
drainbamage1011
??????
IJustWantedToChimeln
elijahandersonthegr8
That's amazing. Good job take your +1
AdventureRoomba
this is advanced
reynoldser
Shouldn't just trust unsourced info graphics. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/cleanest-and-dirtiest-beaches-America-180951869/
triggrhaapi
That's from 2014 dude.
reynoldser
Also this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/07/24/americas-dirtiest-beaches-here-is-the-poop/?sh=1bf2cc96623e
reynoldser
Page 2 has a map: https://environmentamerica.org/sites/environment/files/reports/AME%20Safe%20for%20Swimming%20Jul19-web%20revd072319-2.pdf
triggrhaapi
Boy, it sure looks like that map corroborates the OP's infographic.
reynoldser
My point is this graphic is provided without context to essentially be a "haha, fuck texas" upvote thirst post. When if you look at the 1/?
triggrhaapi
Here's the study that article references: https://environmenttexas.org/reports/txe/safe-swimming-0
reynoldser
Providing a link to one I posted in this comment threw a few hours ago...
triggrhaapi
The supporting data was super easy to find, I googled the article's author. Found it almost instantly.
triggrhaapi
Seriously. I googled "Sanford Nowlin" and then saw he was an editor for a news outlet and found the story. The story had the study.
KlaubKlaubs
If you can't trust the power lines why is it not surprising that the sewers are an issue?
NapoleonDynOmite
Did they have floods there? That's a common problem anywhere after heavy rains or floods
mrducker
I believe Texas is not known for heavy rains or floods. Just saying, i really dont know shit.
NapoleonDynOmite
I think they do have them from time to time
xyxyxyxy31
HonestCommentFarmer
It's fish poop.
GiraffeAnus
Is there anything Texans can?
OneTrueGif
The entire united states has a water/sewer problem that ppl just ignore.
flyingaardvark22
Its not a problem until its a problem.
OneTrueGif
Everyone thought Flint was bad, but there's a lot of places just like Flint and get ignored.
SuperLuigiBrothers
That's what happens when you privatize your utilities. They always pursue the greatest short term gain with no concern for long term cost.
szepasszony
A study showed Aqua (main private water company in the US) cost an average 5X as much as public water utility
szepasszony
Still looking for that study source on Aqua specifically, here is one that shows cost increases when water is privatized generally:
szepasszony
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2015/08/02/water-privatization-facts-and-figures/
szepasszony
All while being less reliable and often providing gross looking brown water to many customers. I had them in NC.
CaptainYesterday
Not about privatize as much as 0 to little regulation.
SuperLuigiBrothers
That's what privatization inevitably leads to.
scriptlife
And when you have the most selfish generation single-mindedly cutting their taxes so there’s no money to maintain/replace stuff.
Kerpeles
Well, the rich needs money to experience space flight. The rest can experience floating poop.
Isingwer
Lol Texas can't handle a once in a lifetime winter storm, meanwhile new york can't provide power for ac on like, a regular summer day
RandomQuack
Not true. I live in NY, ac on when needed, never lost power.
TheRockDude
"Once in a lifetime" right. That's why they had raised similar concerns several years ago, multiple times, due to similar conditions, -
TheRockDude
- that Texas lawmakers ultimately did nothing about, even though everyone knew that the grid had winter problems
Dagordae
It’s amazing how often they get hit by ‘once in a lifetime’ storms. Makes you wonder why their lifetime is so incredibly short.
HorriblyPositive
Seriously? Is that what you think life is like here? I had friends who lived through Sandy's flooding without leaving their apartments.
HorriblyPositive
I can only remember one city-wide blackout in the last decade. And that was a cascading failure across the East Coast.
Crippling
you do realize large swaths of texas was asked not to use their ac hardly at all else the power grid might fail right
UnpopularFacts6
You do realize its because coal power plant capacity is being replaced with wind power right?
AngryKoboldWithSomeGlasses
Texas relies on gas power. Wind power accounts for like 10% at most. Winter storm hit gas and nuclear, wind performed better then expected.
UnpopularFacts6
It's more like 20% and up to 40% at times. Gas powerplants never went down during the winter storm they were made to ramp down.
AngryKoboldWithSomeGlasses
The primary issue is Texas regulation does not enforce winterising. Wind can function in environments like Antarctica
PoppaBigBear
Legit thought people were just pooping directly in the water
IHaveUnpopularOpinions
They, apparently, are.
IHaveUnpopularOpinions
I mean, what kind of water treatment plant puts out poop? Where i live, the water gets processed many times before going back to a lake or s
ImNotTaylorSwift
It happens sometimes. If a treatment plant serving a combined sewer system can't keep up during a storm, they do combined sewer overflows 1
ImNotTaylorSwift
Which is basically just dumping raw sewage into a river or lake. If CSO event is happening, try not to swim in or drink the raw sewage. 2