PALM CITY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Think twice before going into this body of water. <\/p>\n
Water at Charlie Leighton Park tested above safe bacteria limits, prompting the Florida Department of Health in Martin County (DOH-Martin) to issue a health advisory warning visitors to avoid swimming and other water activities.<\/p>\n
Routine testing on December 1 revealed elevated levels of Enterococcus bacteria \u2014 a type of bacteria that live in the intestinal tracts of warm-blooded animals, including humans, and therefore indicates possible contamination of streams and rivers by fecal waste, according to the EPA <\/a>\u2014 which can cause gastrointestinal illness and infections in swimmers. The advisory will remain in effect until follow-up tests confirm the water meets state health standards, according to the news release. <\/p>\n See also: WATCH: Seven Florida deputies, trapper team up to wrangle 14-foot alligator<\/a><\/p>\n Residents and visitors are urged to steer clear of water contact at the park due to increased risk of illness until further notice.<\/p>\n Updated test results are available at Martin.FloridaHealth.gov<\/a>. For more information, call 772-221-4090.<\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel <\/a>for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALM CITY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Think twice before going into this body of water. Water at Charlie Leighton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-70075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}