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Water Testing Results — Week of July 2

Town of Hop­kin­ton, MA — Pub­lic Bathing Beach

SANDY BEACH WATER SAMPLES         2012

Oper­at­ed by Hop­kin­ton Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment – Beach opens June 16 2012 and clos­es August 19, 2012.  It is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., sev­en days a week dur­ing this period

 

445. 031: Indi­ca­tor Organisms

… (B) For fresh water, the indi­ca­tor organ­ism shall be E. Coli or Enterococci.

(1)     No sin­gle E. Coli sam­ple shall exceed 235 colonies per 100 ml. and the geo­met­ric mean of the most recent five E. Coli sam­ples with­in the same bathing sea­son shall not exceed 126 colonies per 100 ml. …

Indi­ca­tor Organ­ism — E. Coli

Sam­ple Date     Left side of Beach CFU/100ml                  Cen­ter of Beach CFU/100ml                 Right side of Beach CFU/100ml

 

June 11                     <10                                             <10                                                20

 

June 18                     <10                                             <10                                              <10

 

June 25                       20                                             <10                                                10

 

July 2                           30                                               10                                                80

 

July 9

July 16

July 23

July 30

August 6

August 13

August 20

August 27

 

 

N.B. Although there are no life­guards at the beach after August 21, 2011 sam­ples will be tak­en to the end of August__

June — Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age   64.3 ⁰F, +.2⁰F  and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was  4.45 inch­es, +.76 inch­es for the month

July – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age            ⁰F,  and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was       inches

August – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age       ⁰F, and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was       inches

Tem­per­a­ture and pre­cip­i­ta­tion infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by Blue Hills Obser­va­to­ry, Mil­ton, MA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/27/12

CC: Parks and Recreation

Tina Mac­Connell, Patri­cia Hol­land, LMPA

 

 

 

REPORT BY PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATOR

In com­pli­ance with the Bathing Beach reg­u­la­tions a per­mit to oper­ate Sandy Beach was issued                   .  Dur­ing the sum­mer of 2012 the pub­lic bathing beach swim­ming water was test­ed in three loca­tions on dif­fer­ent occa­sions.    Parks and recre­ation will be noti­fied reg­u­lar­ly regard­ing water test results.  All sam­ples  were tak­en by Board of Health staff and deliv­ered to Microbac Lab­o­ra­to­ries, Inc. in Worces­ter, MA.

 

Cost of sam­pling program $

 

Report  5/31/12