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Friday, July 17, 2015

COVE ROAD BEACH ADVISORY LIFTED

(Salisbury, MD) – The advisory for Cove Road Beach has been lifted. The Wicomico County Health Department sampled the beach on Thursday, July 16th. Results received today indicate that the bacteria levels have decreased and are within the limits established by the Maryland Department of the Environment.

Beachgoers are reminded to avoid swimming and other water contact activities after heavy rain events. Exposure to bacteria, viruses, and parasites in contaminated water can cause symptoms and diseases ranging from ear, nose, and eye infections to diarrhea, vomiting, hepatitis, encephalitis, skin rashes, and respiratory illnesses. You can reduce your risk of getting sick by following these tips:

· Pay attention to contamination and advisory warnings and stay out of polluted water.

· Stay out of murky or foul-smelling water.

· Avoid beach water if you have an open wound or infection.

· Swim without putting your head under water.
For questions and additional information, residents may call the Department of Environmental Health at (410) 546-4446 or visit www.wicomicohealth.org.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

It smells down there , like crap. go to the beach anyway. Turds everywhere.

Anonymous said...

It's a nice clean place...You must be a local trying to keep people away.

Anonymous said...

Locals let their dogs crap in the water while people are swimming, pretty nasty

Steve said...

OMG, possums, deer, racoons, 50 species of birds, and all them damned chipmunks, rats, and whatever crap in the woods, and some right out in broad daylight!

So,what? How is that some new pollution thing that needs "controlling" since 100 AD?

Anonymous said...

Uh when it's congregated raw sewage from a treatment plant up river.

Anonymous said...

1026, thanks. Whose treatment plants along the Nanticoke are deficient? We all need to know.