This Is Why You Don’t Surf After It Rains 🤢 #gross

[tunnlman]

Ain’t no way bro is taking a brown shower

[Strype]

This is only rational advice for very specific areas. The vast majority of good surfing spots don't convert to massive sewer systems after a rainstorm.

[Ty_is_dum]

He’s swimming in poop he just doesn’t know it yet

[scottym]

No fecal matter is gonna keep me away from the 70 year storm Brody man. - Point Break movie

[Lestyrin]

Bro forgot to enchant his surfboard with riptide 💀

[padgett]

FYI
In Florida we don't have combined manholes where storm water and raw sewage go through the sewage treatment plant. The rain over runs the plant's maximum capacity so the plant basically is overwhelmed and the water passes without being treated. In Florida stom water has it's own pipe system which usually flows to a retention pond then percolates into the ground. We call this the first flush.
Civil Engineer

[sebastiancarles]

Bro said "are You f*cking sh*ting me?"

[alexmason]

Bro surfing in sh*t and said "EHEHEHEH" 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[Banhmmer...phighting]

"Surfing in poop surfing in poop poop poop"
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[rennyukioni]

Licensed Wastewater operator here. Most places combine sanitary and storm water drainage systems to wastewater plants which are designed to handle several MGD higher then their average flow. Even at my plant we typically dont ever reach near or max allowed flow. Storm drains would carry bacteria in it yes but typically not fecal matter if so very low amounts cause sanitary systems shouldnt be going in then if they discharge at a body of water. Our allowed numbers are very low and youll never see shit brown leaving plants unless someone royally fucks up and will face federal prison up to 10 years for it. This is more then likely algae that got stirred up during the storm on his board because not all algae is green. As for rhe photo showing sludge pouring from the drain it looks to be a plant because on the other side of the wall you can see the sludge. Wastewater doesn’t look like that till it goes under w biological process typically in basins. As for the algal bloom there is an active decomposition process happening there. Also known as a dead zone. The algae block the sunlight and absorb dissolved oxygen in the water. Killing off plant life and suffocating any fish in it. This obviously causes harmful bacteria. Also the wastewater that enters plants is 99% water and 1% solids. Its typically clean just with some turbidity. Can come in black if any chemicals or dyes were dumped at the plant as well.

[emily.toombs]

All the *storm* drains in LA lead to the LA river system and they drain into the Pacific Ocean. Similarly in Orange County, the Santa Anna river which drains into the Pacific ocean near Huntington Beach. Likewise, San Diego has a similar situation. None of that water is treated with a filtration system before it reaches the ocean. Happy swimming!
**Edited for clarification. I’m talking about the storm drainages. The drains in the gutters. Not the sewage system. However I’ve you’ve ever been a block from a homeless encampment you’re aware not a human waste makes it into our sewage system and dog poop. Oil runoff from all the cars, chemicals from the agriculture, that’s how the Sultan sea was destroyed. We do have a water catch system which is treated and used for unpotable water that water plants on freeway embankments and such but the vast majority of it is runoff into the ocean. LA had 2 options during the creation of the LA river system. Concrete everything in OR an “emerald necklace” which is making the area surrounding the existing river system natural parkways. A stunning example is found in Boston Massachusetts. For more information see the organization friends if the LA river.

[ClydeStinky]

"EHEHEHEHEH". GOT ME MAN💀💀💀💀

[arthurneddysmith]

I live in Australia. We haven't quite finished poisoning our water yet.

[enriquelopez]

I'm a city worker for Imperial Beach. Whether it rains or doesn't we have to close the beach regularly due to sewage spillage from Tijuana. Some of the locals still go surfing.

[TheGrindcorps]

Yeah, it’s disgusting. Never understood why people do this in Southern California. I’ve seen people surfing all week during flash flooding despite all the nasty shit, including literal shit that rushes out into the water. I actually had a doctor who told me one of his patients was permanently paralyzed from encephalitis he acquired from this. I never go out in the water for a couple days anytime there is more than a mist.

[Togzzzzzz]

I’ve never had this problem growing up in the southwest of France.. until I arrived in collapsed California… what a shame for this beautiful coastline!

[dogishappy]

I literally studied waste water treatment in college and designed systems with "acceptable" levels of overflow during rain events... and never considered it being fine after 3 days. I just stay out of the ocean entirely.

[BucketHeadianHagg]

THIS IS REAL!! I used to live in Huntington Beach and went surfing by the power plant every morning at 5:30 before work, but there’s a waste treatment facility (turd factory) about a mile north, and every time it rained people ended up in the hospital with staphylococcus and really bad lung infections. The only other place to go was either trestles, the nuke plant at San Onofre, or Roserito Beach in Mexico. I just said fuck it and stopped surfing altogether.

[followerofchrist]

Only time I ever got a staph infection was when I surfed Huntington Beach after it rained. When I saw the doctor he prescribed heavy antibiotics saying the infection could have gone to my brain if I’d waited longer.

[henryjumbohead]

I surf during a rain, but stay away from certain beaches after it rains because of runoff. But not all beaches are affected by runoff. I’ve surfed during storms several times. It’s so much fun. Grew up in SoCal.