{"id":13908,"date":"2025-07-03T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/news\/?page_id=13908"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:15:25","slug":"13908-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/news\/public-relations-contacts\/archived-news-releases\/2025-news-releases\/13908-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming Advisory Lifted at Huntington Beach\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 2, 2025<br \/>\n<strong>Media Contact<\/strong>: Tes La Dieu, Population Health Manager, (757) 594-7411<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Swimming Advisory Lifted at Huntington Beach\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEWPORT NEWS, Va. &#8211; The Peninsula Health District received results from sampling completed on Tuesday, July 1, 2025.\u00a0These results indicate that bacteria levels in the water at Hilton Beach meet the state water quality standards for recreational waters.\u00a0 The swimming advisory is no longer in effect at this location.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental Health officials sample Hilton, Huntington, King\/Lincoln Park, Anderson\u2019s and Yorktown public beaches on a weekly basis during the swimming season from May to September.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are reminded to observe the following guidelines as they enjoy the summer swimming season:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not swim in water that looks stagnant, muddy, or smells unpleasant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid swallowing river, stream, lakes, or other recreational water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Prevent direct contact between broken skin and recreational water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid swimming in natural water bodies (rivers, streams, lakes, etc.) for several days after heavy rainfall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 2, 2025 Media Contact: Tes La Dieu, Population Health Manager, (757) 594-7411 &nbsp; Swimming Advisory Lifted at Huntington Beach\u00a0 NEWPORT NEWS, Va. &#8211; The Peninsula Health District received results from sampling completed on Tuesday, July 1, 2025.\u00a0These results indicate that bacteria levels in the water at Hilton Beach meet the state water quality standards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"parent":12290,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1056,1010,1005,1063],"class_list":["post-13908","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-hampton-and-peninsula-health-districts","tag-huntington-beach","tag-newport-news","tag-swimming-advisory-lifted"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Swimming Advisory Lifted at Huntington Beach\u00a0 - Newsroom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/news\/public-relations-contacts\/archived-news-releases\/2025-news-releases\/13908-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Swimming Advisory Lifted at Huntington Beach\u00a0 - Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"July 2, 2025 Media Contact: Tes La Dieu, Population Health Manager, (757) 594-7411 &nbsp; 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