{"id":279012,"date":"2026-09-04T15:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279012\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:10:30","slug":"blue-marsh-lake-closed-for-swimming-ahead-of-labor-day-weekend-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279012\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Marsh Lake closed for swimming ahead of Labor Day weekend | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENN TWP., Pa. &#8211; The swim area at Blue Marsh Lake is currently closed due to high bacteria levels, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia announced.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say high E. coli levels that are above safe recreational standards have been detected in the water, making it dangerous for swimmers.<\/p>\n<p>This closure only affects the designated swim beach within the Dry Brooks Day Use Area.<\/p>\n<p>The picnic area and boat launches remain open for recreation, park officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Daily testing will occur to monitor bacteria levels, and once levels have returned to safe standards, the swim beach will be reopened, says a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Updates will be posted on the Blue Marsh Lake official <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nap.usace.army.mil\/Missions\/Civil-Works\/Blue-Marsh-Lake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">webpage<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bluemarshlake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bluemarshlake.usace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENN TWP., Pa. &#8211; The swim area at Blue Marsh Lake is currently closed due to high bacteria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[67064,36719,2567,116806,38170,116804,4221,18171,128,130,129,116805,62794,48759],"class_list":["post-279012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-bacteria","tag-beach","tag-bern-township","tag-blue-marsh","tag-blue-marsh-lake","tag-dry-brooks-day-use-area-swim-beach","tag-e-coli","tag-lake","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-swim-beach","tag-swimming","tag-unsafe-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}