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Water quality alert lifted at Spanish River Park Beach, Dubois Park still unsafe

The water quality alert at Spanish River Park Beach in Boca Raton has been lifted, but high bacteria levels at Dubois Park in ...
Crain's Chicago Business

Chicago River Swim is back on, and actually in the Chicago River this time

The Chicago River Swim is returning for 2025, this time without any detours to the beach. Organizers announced today the city has officially signed off on the event set for Sept. 21 in which 500 ...
Cleveland.com

Could the Cuyahoga River ever host an open swim like Chicago just did?

Chuck Beatty, event director of the annual Brogan Open Water Classic that features swim races in Lake Erie off Edgewater Beach, said holding an open swim in the Cuyahoga has crossed his mind on ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Hundreds plunge into Chicago River in city’s first open-water swim in nearly a century

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WBUR

Swimmers race in the Chicago River for first time in nearly 100 Years

For the first time in nearly a century, the Chicago River hosted an organized open swim. The race on Sunday drew 263 swimmers and celebrated the river’s environmental turnaround. Memories of the river ...
Fox2Now St. Louis

New bill proposes swimming ban at Rockford Beach Park

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – New legislation in Jefferson County aims to ban people from swimming at Rockford Beach Park along the Big River in House Springs. Bill No. 25-09245 would amend park regulations ...
Press-Telegram on MSN

Long Beach open swimming areas temporarily closed after 18,000 gallon sewage spill

All of Long Beach’s open coastal swimming areas are temporarily closed after 18,000 gallons of sewage spilled into the San Gabriel River. Long Beach’s Department of Health and Human Services ordered ...