Last week when I had a session I noticed the water with a lovely brown color ,surfed anyway and now Im sick as a dog.Just curious if anyone else is hacking up a storm.Hows your water quality been where you surf?
during that time when we had waves for awhile a week or two ago i noticed how clear and nice the water was. the other places i visited in july, florida and maryland both had very murky water. what luck.
Ya it was pretty murky especially since a lot of the good Northern NJ breaks are next to drainage pipes and those storms where passing through. I noticed some smells and that's why I try not to drink the water when I surf No worries though cause it's a good time to be sick when there are no waves...
friday it was really nice and super clear it was the first time in a while that i could actually count my toes ( in alhenhurst)
It hasn't seemed too bad to me this summer. On Saturday the water was fine in Asbury Park. The only sketchy water I noticed this summer was in Deal around the end of May.
i usually surf the asbury area as well and thought the water looked especially clear this summer. i'm in the l.b.i area for a couple weeks and surfed last sat,mon windswell and this fri and the water was crystal clear with a greenish blue color . reminiscent of carribean ocean. tons of cow nose rays though. creepy! otherwise real nice and warm and seemed clean. but you never know with all the road runoff what can be lurking that you can't see
I went out at Sandy Hook last week (windsurfing oceanside- no waves really) just south of the Cove and the water quality was absolutely horrible. I couldn't believe they were letting people swim. It was dark brown with brown bubbles all over the surface and a lot of floating litter (bags, bottles and other junk). I'm guessing it's runoff from all the rain we've had. Anyway, I'm lucky I didn't get sick. We need a good storm to flush all this crap out.
Thats exactly where I was,and I paid the price,funny thing is I dont believe it was from any runoff.Its tough not to surf when you have a board even thou the water looks like crap,hopefully I learned a lesson this time .Never surf in crappy water.......
Sandy Hook has the nastiest water in NJ. Me and a buddy surfed it one day in the fall. My skin was tingling after two showers of 30 minutes.... But surfing my usual breaks this year. The water has seemed much cleaner than usual.
i'll never forget the time i was out at belmar and it was clear and clean when i paddled out, but after like an hour, the water turned cloudly and bubbly and there was the worst stench i've ever smelled in my entire life. I guess a boat musta dumped fresh sewage right by where i was surfing.
i made the mistake of swimming in some nasty water with to good old brown foam, yeah . . . three infections later i am finally back in the water
One should not be so quick to mistaken water quality with turbidity which is most influenced by wind, tide and sand grain size. This summer has had many days with particularly clear water, especially on flat days when the wind is blowing light offshore. If, you are worried about contaminants then avoid surfing in areas where point source pollution is possible i.e the broken down pier that have fumes and oil spitting rides and/or near runoff areas after a storm event. Personally, I've never had a serious problem in NJ (not to say its not possible to catch an infection in the water). The water quality in NJ is much much better than it was 20 years ago since instating various water quality testing programs. I think NJ surfers have much less to worried about compared to our neighbors on the west coast.
