Swimming advisories lifted in NHC, one posted in Brunswick

The State Division of Marine Fisheries has lifted the three swimming advisories for beach areas in New Hanover County. The advisories were lifted because water testing showed that bacteria levels dropped below the state and EPA’s standards set for swimming and water play. Those locations included the access at the corner of Waynick Boulevard and Sunset Avenue in Wrightsville Beach; the public beach on Masonboro Sound at the end of Florida Avenue in Carolina Beach and the public beach access off Loggerhead Road at Fort Fisher State Park. An advisory against swimming was posted Thursday in Brunswick County, in an area by the Cape Fear River located at the swim beach adjacent to the Southport municipal pier in Southport. The swimming advisories affect water within two hundred feet of the posted sign.