Algoma Public Health – Swimming Advisory for Harmony Beach & Mark’s Bay South

Wed, Jul 30, 2025

 

Algoma Public Health (APH) has issued a swimming advisory for Harmony Beach situated in Goulais River, Ontario and Mark’s Bay South in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Water samples are taken from Harmony Beach and Mark’s Bay South each week.  The check outcomes of samples taken on Monday, July twenty eighth, 2025, contained excessive ranges of micro organism.  It is unsafe to swim at seashores with elevated ranges of micro organism.  When pattern outcomes return to secure ranges, the advisory shall be eliminated.  

 

The climate might have an effect on water high quality. Water might comprise excessive ranges of micro organism for as much as 48 hours following heavy rainfall, excessive winds, or an elevated variety of birds. 

 

Swimming advisories don’t shut the seashore or cease folks from swimming. They let swimmers know concerning the water situations the day the pattern was taken. Swimming in water with excessive ranges of micro organism could cause pores and skin, eye, nostril and throat infections, in addition to abdomen sickness if water is swallowed.

 

To cut back your threat:

 

• Avoid swallowing seashore water
• Towel off after a swim, and
• Shower as soon as at house

 

Visit our web site to view a map of the seashores sampled and present warnings or postings: www.algomapublichealth.com/seashore