DEP: State Swimming Area Water Quality Report

State Swimming Area Water Quality Report

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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Final 2009 report:All beaches open Holiday Weekend

DEP State Parks and Forests	Location	Status
Shoreline
Hammonasset Beach State Park	Madison	OPEN
Rocky Neck State Park	Niantic	OPEN
Sherwood Island State Park (Guarded swimming at East Beach only)	Westport	OPEN
Silver Sands State Park	Milford	OPEN
Lakes and Ponds
Black Rock State Park	Watertown	OPEN
Burr Pond State Park	Torrington	OPEN
Chatfield Hollow State Park	Killingworth	OPEN
Cockaponset State Forest (Pattaconk)	Chester	OPEN
Day Pond State Park	Colchester	OPEN
Gay City State Park	Hebron	OPEN
Hopeville Pond State Park	Griswold	OPEN
Indian Well State Park	Shelton	OPEN
Kettletown State Park	Southbury	OPEN
Lake Waramaug State Park	Kent	OPEN
Mashamoquet Brook State Park	Pomfret	OPEN
Mount Tom State Park	Litchfield	OPEN
Pachaug State Forest (Green Falls Pond)	Voluntown	OPEN
Quaddick State Park	Thompson	OPEN
Squantz Pond State Park	New Fairfield	OPEN
Stratton Brook State Park	Simsbury	OPEN
Wadsworth Falls State Park	Middlefield	OPEN
Wharton Brook State Park	Wallingford	OPEN

Park has guarded beach

Indicator bacteria are not disease causing pathogens, but are one of the tools used by public health and environmental protection authorities to evaluate potential for contamination of waterbodies.