Beach advisory reported, Jul 9, 2025

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{
  "releases": [
    {
      "title": "Swimming Advisory Issued for Buckroe Beach South and Middle in Hampton, Virginia",
      "link": "https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/news/public-relations-contacts/archived-news-releases/2025-news-releases/swimming-advisory-issued-for-buckroe-beach-south-and-middle/",
      "pubDate": "Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:00:07 +0000",
      "published": "2025-07-09T15:00:07-04:00",
      "action": "issued",
      "categories": [
        "Buckroe Beach",
        "Swiming advisory"
      ],
      "dateline": "Hampton",
      "lead": [
        "Swimming Advisory Issued for Buckroe Beach South and Middle in Hampton, Virginia",
        "HAMPTON, Va. – The Hampton Health District has issued a swimming advisory for Buckroe Beach South and Buckroe Beach Middle in the City of Hampton, VA. Samples collected on July 8, 2025, by the Hampton Health District showed that bacteria levels in the water exceeded the state water quality standard.",
        "Signs are posted at the beaches alerting the public of the advisory. The signs read: “Warning swimmers – bacteria levels do not meet state water quality standards, swimming not advised until further notice.”",
        "Additional samples were collected by health officials on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, and the results should be available on Thursday, July 10, 2025. Officials will remove the signs and notify the public again when the bacteria levels decrease to levels that meet the state water quality standards.",
        "“We encourage the public to protect their health by complying with this advisory,” “Typically, an advisory of this nature is temporary and will be withdrawn once the bacteria levels have returned to a safe level.”",
        "Recreational waters are monitored for bacteria routinely during the summer swimming season",
        "using indicator organisms such as enterococci, the indicator of choice for estuarine and marine waters.",
        "Enterococci is a group of organisms used to determine the extent of fecal contamination of recreational waters. While these organisms do not cause illness, scientific studies indicate that their presence is closely correlated to the presence of other disease-causing organisms. People swimming or playing in waters with bacteria levels higher than the standard have an increased risk of developing gastrointestinal illness."
      ],
      "advisory_area": null,
      "advice": "The signs read: “Warning swimmers – bacteria levels do not meet state water quality standards, swimming not advised until further notice.”",
      "role": "issued"
    }
  ],
  "kind": "swimming",
  "place_words": [
    "beach",
    "buckroe",
    "middle",
    "south"
  ],
  "event_type_basis": "swimming advisory from beach bacteria sampling",
  "valid_until": null,
  "notes": [
    "no lift release found in the feeds 481 days after the issue; kept as published (active)"
  ],
  "water_placement": {
    "subject": "Buckroe Beach South and Middle in Hampton, Virginia",
    "town": "Hampton",
    "notes": null
  },
  "discharger_named": null,
  "_time_basis": "RSS pubDate (UTC) shown in America/New_York; started_at = the issued release, ended_at = the lift"
}

Source: Virginia Department of Health via Virginia Department of Health recreational water and swimming advisories (newsroom search RSS), record swimming-advisory-issued-for-buckroe-beach-south-and-middle, published Jul 9, 2025, 3:00 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:42 UTC · Read the original notice

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