{"id":192842,"date":"2025-10-06T06:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192842\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:29:08","slug":"gold-coast-council-declares-water-safe-for-swimming-after-fish-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192842\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Coast council declares water safe for swimming after fish kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of dead fish that washed up on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/gold-coast\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Gold Coast\">Gold Coast<\/a> beach last week are yet to be removed, but council has confirmed the water remains safe for swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Images of scores of baitfish on the shore were posted to Facebook on Saturday by the Save Our Southern Gold Coast community group\ufeff.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Environment officers were tasked to inspect the area on Wednesday and found dead baitfish but &#8220;no obvious source of pollution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/90a23c60-ff0c-4a0f-a58b-3f6646d907f2.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>(Save Our Southern Gold Coast)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On-site water quality monitoring indicated high water temperature and low dissolved oxygen in the area, which can cause fish deaths,&#8221; a spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted to Facebook, Kath Down from Save Our Southern Gold Coast expressed her concern that the fish could be a biohazard.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Gold Coast Council has conducted water quality testing and confirmed the water is safe for swimming.<\/p>\n<p>The Gold Coast Waterways Authority \ufeffis responsible for the clean-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of dead fish that washed up on a Gold Coast beach last week are yet to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-192842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}