Published July 27 2010
Swim at your own risk
By: John Myers, Duluth News Tribune
A federally funded beach monitoring program that usually starts looking for harmful bacteria in May along North Shore and Duluth waterfronts still hasn’t started this summer.
The News Tribune first reported in April that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency decided not to staff the beach monitoring program this year but was moving to find a private contractor to do the work.
PCA officials had hoped to start testing by mid-June. But as summertime temperatures hit their highest — and at the peak of swimming, kayaking and wading season in the Northland — neither Lake Superior nor harbor waterfront areas are being tested.
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