by NJ’s Seaside Park The bayfront kiddie beach at Fifth Avenue in Seaside Park has been blocked by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) because of elevated fecal bacterial levels.
The state’s safe swimming threshold of 104 colonies of Enterococci bacteria was exceeded by the bacterial concentrations of 100 and 290 colonies per 100 milliliters found in water samples collected on Tuesday at two different test sites.
The only beach in the state with a swimming ban as of Wednesday is the bayfront beach at Seaside Park. Swimmers should stay away from the water in beaches with elevated bacterial levels, according to the NJDEP.
Despite the lack of updated data as of Wednesday, two Monmouth County beaches—Plum Island Beach in Middletown and Broad Street Beach in Keyport—remain under swimming advisories due to elevated bacterial levels, in addition to Seaside Park.
