BEACHGOERS may be met with bacteria-contaminated water as they go to make their one last shore trip of the summer.
Beaches down the East Coast have issued stark warnings for travelers looking to celebrate Labor Day, with most advisories for fecal contamination.
Some of the most popular shore destinations are a part of the warning list.
The advisories discourage swimmers from going into the water due to a sickness risk.
Beaches from Barnstable, Massachusetts and Bay Shore, New York , to the Florida Keys have advisories.
According to a report by Environment America , an environmental group, 61% of US beaches had fecal contamination reaching "potentially unsafe levels."
Around 1 and 7 beaches across the country had the possibly dangerously high levels of contamination on at lea