Beach advisory reported, Jul 31, 2025

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{
  "releases": [
    {
      "title": "Swimming Advisory Issued for Huntington Beach in Newport News, Virginia",
      "link": "https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/news/public-relations-contacts/archived-news-releases/2025-news-releases/swimming-advisory-issued-for-huntington-beach-in-newport-news-virginia/",
      "pubDate": "Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:39:30 +0000",
      "published": "2025-07-31T16:39:30-04:00",
      "action": "issued",
      "categories": [
        "Huntington Beach",
        "Peninsula Health District",
        "Swiming advisory"
      ],
      "dateline": "Newport News",
      "lead": [
        "Swimming Advisory Issued for Huntington Beach in Newport News, Virginia",
        "NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The Peninsula Health District has issued a swimming advisory for Huntington Beach in Newport News, VA. Samples collected on July 30, 2025, by the Peninsula 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.”",
        "“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protect their health by complying with this advisory,” “Typically, an advisory of this nature is temporary and will be withdrawn once the bacteria levels have returned to a safe level.”",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",
    "huntington"
  ],
  "event_type_basis": "swimming advisory from beach bacteria sampling",
  "valid_until": null,
  "notes": [
    "no lift release found in the feeds 459 days after the issue; kept as published (active)"
  ],
  "water_placement": {
    "subject": "Huntington Beach in Newport News, Virginia",
    "town": "Newport News",
    "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 (Peninsula Health District) via Virginia Department of Health recreational water and swimming advisories (newsroom search RSS), record swimming-advisory-issued-for-huntington-beach-in-newport-news-virginia, published Jul 31, 2025, 4:39 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:42 UTC · Read the original notice

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