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June 10, 2008

Goddard Memorial, Oakland added to closed beaches

The state Health Department closed two beaches to swimming today, and a third beach, closed June 6, remains so.

Goddard Memorial Beach and Oakland Beach, both in Warwick, were closed today to swimming because of high bacteria counts.

Mackerel Cove Beach, in Jamestown, was closed June 6, also due to bacteria.

For updated information about swimming at Rhode Island beaches, go to www.health.ri.gov or for recorded information about call (401) 222-2751.

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 4:43 PM | Permalink

Comments

This is bad, the summer is not here yet and we have beach closing. I believe we need to take a closer look at this problem to see who or what is the problem and solve solve it. Do we have polluters or it is something else. R.R.H

Ray R. Hogarth | June 10, 2008 7:55 PM link

Stop dumping raw sewage into the bay for a year and it will clean itself up.

Tom | June 11, 2008 8:24 AM link

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