{"id":26633,"date":"2015-08-08T00:18:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T00:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=26633"},"modified":"2015-08-08T00:18:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T00:18:05","slug":"water-bay-in-st-thomas-not-safe-other-beaches-overtaken-by-seaweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=26633","title":{"rendered":"Water Bay In St. Thomas Not Safe; Other Beaches Overtaken By Seaweed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. CROIX &#8212; The Department of Planning and Natural Resources has released the weekly results of its beach water monitoring program, and has made known that Water Bay on St. Thomas is not safe this weekend. The department also revealed that\u00a0Grapetree Bay, Columbus Landing, Pelican Cove (Comorant) and Princess (Condo Row) here could not be sampled this week due to the heavy presence of seaweed along the shoreline.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, the following beaches are safe for swimming and fishing this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Croix:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stoney Ground, Protestant Cay, Chenay Bay, Buccaneer, Cane Bay, Cramer Park, Rainbow, Shoy\u2019s, New Fort (Ft. Louise Augusta), Dorsch Frederiksted Public Beach, Columbus Landing and Sprat Hall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Thomas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Secret Harbor, Hull Bay, Brewer\u2019s Bay, Lindquist, Bolongo Bay, Sapphire, Bluebeards, Frenchman\u2019s Bay, Vessup Bay, Magen\u2019s Bay, Coki Point and Lindbergh Bay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. John:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cruz Bay, Oppenhiemer, Johnson\u2019s Bay, Great Cruz and Bay Frank Bay.<\/p>\n<p>DPNR says it will continue to monitor the impacted areas and waters. For additional information regarding water quality call the Division of Environmental Protection at 773-1082 in St. Croix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. CROIX &#8212; The Department of Planning and Natural Resources has released the weekly results of its beach water monitoring program, and has made known that Water Bay on St. Thomas is not safe this weekend. The department also revealed that\u00a0Grapetree Bay, Columbus Landing, Pelican Cove (Comorant) and Princess (Condo Row) here could not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[191,147],"tags":[2871,2870,121],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Water Bay In St. Thomas Not Safe; Other Beaches Overtaken By Seaweed - V.I. 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