No swimming advisories this weekend

It’s another week with no swimming advisories in Franklin County.

Health officials take water samples from local beaches every week looking for bacteria that could pose a hazard to swimmers.

The Health Department said water samples taken from all 6 beaches tested in Franklin County last Monday came back clean.

That includes 4 locations on St. George Island as well as Carrabelle beach and Alligator Point.

There were also no swimming advisories issued for Wakulla County or Gulf County this week though moderate concentrations of the enterococcus bacteria were found at Beacon Hill Beach and Dixie belle beach in Gulf County.

The state currently takes weekly water samples from 304 beaches in 34 counties but is considering some changes to the beach water testing program.
Those changes include reducing the number of locations they monitor, reducing sampling from weekly to biweekly and suspending winter sampling at beaches where swimming is minimal.


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