The water right now on the Windward and North Shore is really not the place to be.

The water is really nasty. So don't go in the water.

We do urge people not to go into the water with open wounds. If you do and you don't clean them, an infection could set in a matter of days.

Certainly, there's always the possibility of people becoming ill if they're swimming in contaminated water.

We assumed the sewage would lessen the salinity, but at surf sites, that wasn't the case.

During the height of the spill, the conditions were 20,000 times over our standard and we find that very alarming.