The Alabama Department of Public Health lifts the swimming advisory issued on Wednesday, June 13, for the waters of Mobile Bay at the Fairhope Public Beach.

Based on a water sample obtained yesterday, swimming water quality at the site is again good, with an enterococci level of 33 colonies per 100 milliliters of water. This is below the EPA threshold of 104 colonies per 100 milliliters for marine swimming water.

The Alabama Department of Public Health and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management operate the bacteriological water quality monitoring and notification program under a grant from the EPA’s BEACH Act Program. Currently, there are no swimming advisories in effect.

For more information, visit ADEM’s website at www.adem.state.al.us. Click on monitoring at the top and then click on Coastal Alabama Beach Monitoring.

Additional information is available on the EPA website entitled “Beach Watch” at www.epa.gov/ost/beaches.