Public Beaches at State Park Open This Weekend

Public Beach #1 AND #2 will be open to swimmers this weekend after weekly tests on Monday. Public Beach #2 had one sample with 27 parts of E. coli per 100 milliliters of water, another with 30. Public Beach #1 had one test with seven parts and another with three. Hermitage Beach at Pomme de Terre State Park will be closed this weekend after one test shows E. coli levels at 248 parts per milliliter of water, above the safe swimming standard enforced by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.