{"id":58057,"date":"2025-08-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=58057"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:00:00","slug":"oakfield-beach-reopens-for-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=58057","title":{"rendered":"Oakfield Beach reopens for swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>OAKFIELD: <\/strong>The Halifax Regional Municipality is advising residents that Oakfield Beach in Oakfield has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.halifax.ca\/parks-recreation\/programs-activities\/swimming\/supervised-beaches-outdoor-pools-splash-pads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reopened to swimming<\/a>\u00a0following blue-green algae toxin testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Test results have indicated toxin levels are within Health Canada limits and no new blue-green algae has been observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a blue-green algae bloom or matis observed, the beach is closed and initial testing is done to determine whether it is a toxin-producing blue-green algae bloom is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the blue-green algae bloom is\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>\u00a0toxin producing, no further testing is required, and the beach will be reopened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If it\u00a0is\u00a0a toxin-producing blue-green algae bloom, further testing will be carried out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This would mean that the beach would remain closed until blooms have disappeared and post-bloom test results indicate the toxin concentration is within Health Canada guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about algae blooms, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.halifax.ca\/cyano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.halifax.ca\/cyano<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKFIELD: The Halifax Regional Municipality is advising residents that Oakfield Beach in Oakfield has\u00a0reopened to swimming\u00a0following blue-green algae toxin testing. Test results have indicated toxin levels are within Health Canada limits and no new blue-green algae has been observed. When a blue-green algae bloom or matis observed, the beach is closed and initial testing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[50,121,33,4051,610],"class_list":["post-58057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-halifax","tag-hrm","tag-oakfield","tag-oakfield-beach","tag-oakfield-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58057","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=58057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}