MANCHESTER, NH – The Manchester Health Department announced Aug. 9 that the public beach at Crystal Lake has been closed to swimming due to elevated levels of E. coli bacteria.
The elevated bacteria levels were identified in a routine water sample taken on August 8, 2016. Water samples taken at other locations on Crystal Lake did not find elevated levels of E. coli bacteria.
Crystal Lake has been closed to swimming twice already this season, in late June, and again just last week, on Aug. 2.
The Health Department will be re-sampling the area on August 9, 2016. Once E. coli levels are found to be acceptable, the public beach will be re-opened for swimming.
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