{"id":83840,"date":"2026-06-21T10:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83840"},"modified":"2026-06-21T10:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:19:15","slug":"popular-beaches-closed-as-high-bacteria-levels-raise-health-concerns-for-swimmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/popular-beaches-closed-as-high-bacteria-levels-raise-health-concerns-for-swimmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Beaches Closed As High Bacteria Levels Raise Health Concerns For Swimmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1200\/675\/new_jersey_beach.jpeg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"A stretch of New Jersey beach.\" width=\"356\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">Officials in several states are warning beachgoers to check local water quality advisories before swimming this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">Elevated bacteria levels have prompted beach closures and health alerts in Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Washington state.\u00a0Last summer, the Environment America Research &amp; Policy Center\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/center\/resources\/safe-for-swimming\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that &#8220;61% of U.S. beaches had potentially unsafe contamination levels in 2024.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: Officials in several states are warning beachgoers to check local water quality advisories before swimming this summer..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83841,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840\/revisions\/83841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}