Six state parks’ swimming beaches closed this weekend because of … poop (updated)
Update (9:13 a.m. June 16): A point of clarification from Judd Slivka, communications director for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources: Elevated E. coli levels only resulted in five beaches being closed. Twain hasn’t
opened this season — and wouldn’t have opened this week regardless of bacteria
levels — due to flooding.
Original story (4:25 p.m. June 16): On Monday, the DNR tested E. coli levels at 15 swimming beaches within 85 state parks and found that six exceeded the limit for E. coli. As a result, the beaches at Mark Twain, Wakonda, Crowder, Cuivre River, St. Joe and Thousand Hills state parks will be closed this weekend, according to a DNR press release issued … just now.
