With rain sometimes comes bacteria and with bacteria comes beach closures.
As of Saturday morning, 32 beaches are listed as being closed according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health dashboard.
Closures spanned from Western Massachusetts to Eastern Massachusetts and along the coast of Cape Cod and the Islands. While Bucks Creek in Chatham was listed as closed due to excess bacteria, Red Cross at Walden Pond in Concord is closed with the reasoning being listed as “other.”
Three beaches in Salem are closed. Specifically, the back of Children’s Island and Ocean Avenue are closed because of excess bacteria, while Camp Naumkeag’s reasoning is “other.”
Templeton also seems to have a couple of closures at Beamans Pond where both the campground and day use are closed because of too much bacteria.
Colonia Acres West and Windmill in Yarmouth are also closed because of excess bacteria, while Longnook in Truro are closed with the reasoning being “other.”
“If a beach is closed, do not swim or enter the water at that location to avoid risk of illness,” the dashboard warns.
The dashboard is updated twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, and shows the results of recent water quality tests at beaches across the state. More than 1,100 public and semi-public beaches in the state are regularly monitored.
The full list of closures is below. If you can’t see the chart, click here.
