Swimming Ban in Battery Creek Lifted, Port Royal, SC, AICW Mile 542
As reported by Erin Moody in the Island Packet on August 5, a leak of 5000-plus gallons of sewage forced the prohibition of swimming in Battery Creek. However, as of August 8, Battery Creek, a popular anchorage lying just west of the Beaufort River by Port Royal, is now cleared for swimming.
Swimming advisory for Battery Creek lifted after sewage leak
By LAURA OBERLE
August 8, 2014
A swimming advisory for Battery Creek was lifted Friday after water-quality tests came back clean, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control announced.
Read more here:
http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/08/08/3248330/swimming-advisory-on-battery-creek.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1
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