Red level warnings have been issued for two Dunedin beaches after faecal matter was detected in seawater.<\/p>\n
Tomahawk Beach West and Westwood beach have been closed by the Dunedin City Council.<\/p>\n
The restrictions at\u00a0Beachlands beach have been lifted this morning.<\/p>\n
The council issued a statement yesterday advising the public the red-level alert had been issued after Enterococci levels were found to have met the criteria under the recreational water quality guidelines.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018Recent water quality testing at city beaches has indicated elevated levels of faecal coliforms and Enterococci.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Enterococci are bacteria found in the gut of humans, birds and other warm-blooded animals.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018They indicate the presence of faecal material in seawater,\u2019\u2019 the council website said.<\/p>\n
The council called on the public to obey all warning signage and not: swim, collect shellfish, or have any contact with seawater.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018The results do not identify a specific contamination source, but elevated levels can occur following rainfall when contaminants are washed into waterways and coastal areas, including by surface runoff,\u2019\u2019 the council said.<\/p>\n
On Monday, after heavy rain, the council issued a statement reminding swimmers, surfers and shellfish gatherers to stay out of the water for 72 hours due to the risk of contamination from wet-weather overflows.\u00a0\u2014 Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red level warnings have been issued for two Dunedin beaches after faecal matter was detected in seawater. Tomahawk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-519317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}