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  <10 10 30

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

7/11/12

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