NCRWQP reports they have collected additional samples from the affected sites and will test them again to decide on the next ...

Four freshwater lakes in New Jersey are also under swimming advisories and a lake at a state park remains closed due to a ...

Four swimming beaches at state parks in New York are closed, according to the state Department of Parks, Recreation and ...

Meet enterococci, superbug extraoordinaire. Apart from outlasting the dinosaurs, they have also managed to survive everything that Nature has thrown at it, each time becoming more indestructible.

Raised levels of enterococci bacteria, an indicator of fecal contamination, have triggered a beach advisory in Ogunquit.

Average of 5,463 enterococci vs. limit of 35 The average of five samples taken from different spots at Oak Bay, in southwestern New Brunswick, on Aug. 11 showed 5,463 enterococci per 100 millilitres.

New York has 67 state-owned swimming beaches and all are tested regularly to determine the public's risk of coming in contact ...

The overall prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci at 30 facilities that participated in all three years of the study decreased from 2.2 percent in 1997 to 1.4 percent in 1998 and to 0.5 ...

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control tests for the indicator bacteria, enterococci, at all guarded ...

Earlier in the week, blue-green algae was detected in Long Lake, while this bacteria is different to enterococci, Vandermeulen said it is connected.