Gay City State Park will be open this weekend – Journal Inquirer
HEBRON — Gay City State Park will be open for the holiday weekend.
The park was closed to swimmers on May 31 due to poor water quality. Officials at the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection were performing routine testing to look for bacteria to evaluate the potential for contamination, and decided to close the park until a second water sample could be taken and analyzed.
Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, DEEP staff members collect water samples weekly at the state’s 23 swimming areas and four coastal areas, The samples are then analyzed at the state Department of Public Health laboratory for the presence of certain indicator bacteria.
Indicator bacteria don’t cause disease but are used by public health and environmental protection authorities to evaluate the potential for contamination of water bodies.
— Susan Danseyar