{"id":12158,"date":"2019-08-13T16:45:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T19:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12158"},"modified":"2019-08-13T16:45:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T19:45:33","slug":"updated-oakfield-beach-reopens-swimming-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12158","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Oakfield Beach reopens for swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>OAKFIELD:<\/strong> The beach at Oakfield Park on Grand Lake has reopened Aug. 16 for swimming after a closure for much of the week due to high bacteria levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oakfield is a supervised beach. Municipal staff\nregularly test the water quality at all supervised and four unsupervised\nmunicipal beaches during the summer months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previous\ntest results showed high bacteria levels in the water, but follow-up tests now\nshow the water is once again safe, as per Health Canada guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For\nmore information on municipal beaches and outdoor pools across the Halifax\nregion, please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.halifax.ca\/recreation\/programs-activities\/swimming\/supervised-beaches-outdoor-pools-splash-pads\">beaches<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKFIELD: The beach at Oakfield Park on Grand Lake has reopened Aug. 16 for swimming after a closure for much of the week due to high bacteria levels. Oakfield is a supervised beach. Municipal staff regularly test the water quality at all supervised and four unsupervised municipal beaches during the summer months. Previous test results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[672,610,673],"class_list":["post-12158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-featured","tag-bacteria","tag-oakfield-park","tag-water-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}