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A water health advisory was issued for Lynn Hall Memorial Park on Jan. 8. The advisory was lifted Tuesday, Jan. 13. Photo by Nathan Mayberg
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A water health advisory was issued for Lynn Hall Memorial Park on Jan. 8.
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A water health advisory was issued for Lynn Hall Memorial Park on Jan. 8. The advisory was lifted Tuesday, Jan. 13. Photo by Nathan Mayberg
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A water health advisory was issued for Lynn Hall Memorial Park on Jan. 8. The advisory was lifted Tuesday, Jan. 13. Photo by Nathan Mayberg
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The Florida Department of Health in Lee County lifted a water quality advisory at Lynn Hall Memorial Park on Tuesday, six days after tests at the park indicated bacteria levels do not meet health department standards for recreational water activity.
The department issued a water quality advisory on Thursday advising the public to refrain from water-related activities at the park due to increased risk of illness to swimmers.
A new round of tests on water quality at the park on Monday indicated that bacteria levels were at acceptable levels for swimming, the Florida Department of Health in Lee County said in a statement late Tuesday afternoon.
According to the Florida Department of Health in Lee County, water quality samples were also taken last week at Newton Park and Bowditch Point Regional Park which did not result in a water quality advisory.
The sample that resulted in the water quality advisory for Lynn Hall Memorial Park was collected last week Wednesday resulting in 87 per 100 milliliters of enterococci for marine water sampled. Poor water quality ranges are 71 or greater enterococci per 100 milliliters of marine water, according to a statement from the Florida Department of Health in Lee County in response to questions from the Fort Myers Beach Observer.
The department samples and monitors public beaches weekly for enterococci bacteria. Lynn Hall Memorial Park was the only location in Lee County that resulted in a water quality advisory last week.
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The last time a water quality advisory was issued for Fort Myers Beach was last September for Bowditch Point Regional Park.
That advisory was lifted a week later.
Both Bowditch Point Regional Point Park and Lynn Hall Memorial Park are operated by Lee County. The county referred questions to the Florida Department of Health in Lee County.
The department, in a statement, said test results can be found on the department’s website though a link to the results was not working as of Monday. Further questions about the test results, their causes and the broken link, were not immediately responded to as of press time after questions were sent to both the Florida Department of Health in Lee County and the Florida Department of Health’s main headquarters in Tallahassee.
The broken link the Florida Department of Health was advising the public to check can be found at: https://www.floridahealth.gov/community-environmental-public-health/environmental-public-health/water-quality/aquatic-toxins/beach-water-quality/.