WORCESTER – Sunday is a hot and humid day in Massachusetts, but there are more than 40 beaches in the state where swimming is currently prohibited due to bacteria levels in the water and other reasons.
Every day, the state publishes a dashboard of beach closures throughout the summer season. As of Sunday, the list includes:
- Damon Pond Beach, Ashby (bacterial excess)
- Hopkinton Reservoir – Main Beach (bacterial excess)
- Malibu, Boston (bacterial excess)
- Tenean, Boston (bacterial excess)
- Smith Beach, Braintree (bacterial exceedance)
- Cold River Pool, Charlemont (bacterial exceedance)
- Bucks Creed, Chatham (bacterial overshoot)
- Oyster Pond, Chatham (bacterial excess)
- Hidden Bay, Dartmouth (bacterial exceedance)
- Clipper Lane, Dennis (Bacterial excess)
- Waushakum Beach, Framingham (bacterial exceedance)
- Dunn Pond, Gardner (bacterial overshoot)
- Merrimac River – Bath House, Lowell (bacterial exceedance)
- Kings, Lynn (bacterial overshoot)
- Houghton’s Pond at Bathhouse, Milton (bacterial excess)
- Black Rock, Nahant (bacterial overshoot)
- Miacomet Pond, Nantucket (harmful cyanobacteria bloom)
- Washington Street, Nantucket (bacterial excess)
- York Lake Beach, New Marlboro (bacterial excess)
- Pilgrim Lake, Orleans (bloom of harmful cyanobacteria)
- Lulu Pond Beach, Pittsfield (bacterial excess)
- Wollaston at Channing Street, Quincy (bacterial exceedance)
- Wollaston at Milton Street, Quincy (bacterial excess)
- Wollaston at Rice Road, Quincy (bacterial excess)
- Wollaston in Sachem Street (bacterial excess)
- Whitehall Pond Beach, Rutland (bacterial exceedance)
- Children’s Island – Back, Salem (bacterial excess)
- Ocean Avenue, Salem (bacterial excess)
- Cedar Lake Recreation Area, Sturbridge (bacterial exceedance)
- Beamans Pond, Templeton (bacterial overshoot)
- Pearl Hill Pond Beach, Townsend (bacterial excess)
- Long Cove, West Tisbury (bacterial excess)
- Shannon Beach at Upper Mystic, Winchester (bacterial excess)
- Donovan, Winthrop (Bacterial Crossing)
- Pico, Winthrop (Bacterial Crossing)
- Lake Quinsigamond – Regatta Point Beach, Worcester (bacterial excess)
Other beaches currently closed in Massachusetts
Several other beaches in Massachusetts are also closed for reasons other than bacteria. This includes:
- Walden Pond, Concord
- More Mansfield, Great Barrington
- Camp Naumkeag, Salem
- Kings Beach, Swampscott
