{"id":2659,"date":"2016-08-03T00:35:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T04:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2016-08-03T00:35:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T04:35:52","slug":"swim-advisories-issued-for-bay-beaches-in-lavallette-seaside-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/08\/swim-advisories-issued-for-bay-beaches-in-lavallette-seaside-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Swim Advisories Issued for Bay Beaches in Lavallette, Seaside Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1790\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/lavallette_channel.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Barnegat Bay, off Lavallette&#039;s bay beach. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1790\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1790\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/lavallette_channel.jpg\" alt=\"Barnegat Bay, off Lavallette's bay beach. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/lavallette_channel.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/lavallette_channel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/lavallette_channel-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barnegat Bay, off Lavallette&#8217;s bay beach. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Ocean County Health Department issued a swim advisory for two island bay beaches\u00a0on Tuesday, warning that water testing turned up heightened levels of pollutants.<\/p>\n<p>The beaches were\u00a0open Tuesday, but may be closed Wednesday if a second round of tests performed Tuesday show the situation is lingering. The affected beaches were Brooklyn Avenue in Lavallette and Hancock Avenue (bayside, not the ocean beach) in Seaside Heights.<\/p>\n<p>The test showed 200\u00a0enterococci (cfu\/100ml) at Brooklyn Avenue and 120 enterococci at Hancock Avenue. The state allowable limit is 104 (cfu\/100ml).<\/p>\n<p>According to the state Department of Environmental Protection, a swim advisory is issued when an\u00a0initial sample exceeds the state standard of a particular substance. Swimming Advisories warn the public of \u201cpotentially unhealthy water conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additional sampling is conducted until water quality results are again within the standard, the DEP said. Beaches are closed if two consecutive samples exceed allowable levels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/08\/swim-advisories-issued-for-bay-beaches-in-lavallette-seaside-heights\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ocean County Health Department issued a swim advisory for two island bay beaches\u00a0on Tuesday, warning that water testing turned up heightened levels of pollutants. The beaches were\u00a0open Tuesday, but may be closed Wednesday if a second round of tests performed Tuesday show the situation is lingering. The affected beaches were Brooklyn Avenue in Lavallette [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[67,29,710,20,709],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-shore-environment","tag-barnegat-bay","tag-lavallette-nj-news","tag-pollution","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news","tag-swim-advisory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/lavallette_channel.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-GT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}