1 Michigan beach closed for unsafe bacteria levels with June about to begin

1 Michigan beach closed for unsafe bacteria levels with June about to begin

Swimming beaches are sometimes closed when high levels of bacteria are detected.

EPA awards $219,000 to monitor water quality along Great Lakes beaches

The funding will also help officials alert the public of any elevated levels of bacteria to help making swimming safer.

Berrien County Health Department monitoring beaches for E coli

The Berrien County Health Department has begun its beach monitoring program for the summer. Department Environmental Health Supervisor Brian Murphy tells us a grant enables the department to go around Lake Michigan beaches throughout the county once a week taking samples to be tested for E coli. Staff wade out into water about waist deep to collect the samples. “Our team goes out there with the sampling bottles and the documents and we pick at l…