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Beach in Toronto deemed unswimmable due to high levels of E.coli

You might want to rethink where you take your next dip in Toronto: one of the city's beaches was just deemed unswimmable due to high levels of E.coli in the water.

While Toronto prides itself in having clean, safe water for swimming at ten beaches across the city, the latest water test report by the city shows that one beach isn't quite so pristine.

According to data collected on July 1 and posted to the City's Water Quality reporting page on July 2, the water at Cherry Beach is currently full of high levels of E.coli and, thus, unsafe for a swim.

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The Water Quality advisory for July 2.

The sample found an E.coli count of 311 per 100 ml of water — more than triple the City of Toronto's maximum for safe swimming water.

Before you take Cherry Beach off your roster for good, though, the water quality at the beach can (and likely will) change quickly.

Over the Canada Day long weekend, Kew-Balmy, Marie Curtis and Sunnyside Beaches were all deemed unsafe for swimming, but as of the July 2 data, the E.coli at all of those beaches has returned to safe levels.

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