Costa Rica - the leading world center for online sports betting and casinos - came under fire recently for its "dangerous" beaches. We're talking about unsafe bacteria levels here folks. The very beaches where thousands of these industry folks frolic.

Tamarindo Beach in Costa Rica's North Pacific Coast is a widely popular beach among tourists and surfers due to its vibrant town and great surf. However, Tamarindo Beach was also recently intervened by the Costa Rican Ministry of Health for presented highly contaminated waters.

As a result of the Ministry of Health's intervention, Tamarindo has once again regained its privileged spot among the beaches with clean waters. In the latest sampling carried out by the Costa Rican Sewer and Aqueduct Institute (AyA) in August 2007, the waters in Tamarindo showed a coliform count of 4,900 per 100 milliliters of water. This was an alarming result as the maximum amount allowed is of 240 coliforms per 100 milliliters.

The study carried this past August revealed that the water contamination practically disappeared as the results showed that waters in Tamarindo now have a count of 45 coliforms per 100 milliliters. A second sampling area in the Tamarindo region showed that the contamination decreased from a 1,100 coliform count to 20 per 100 milliliters.

Although Tamarindo has shown an impressive improvement in its water quality, there are still certain areas which still need to be targeted. The area's which still show a considerable level of contamination are near the estuary east of Pedro's Seafood and in front of the Iguana Surf business.

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