By Karen Wall, Patch staff
BEACHWOOD, NJ — Swimming has been banned at Beachwood’s beach on the Toms River for 2025 due to ongoing concerns about high bacteria counts, according to a report.
Further, the swimming ban may never be lifted, the Asbury Park Press reported.
The borough’s beach was closed to swimming in July 2024 following four straight weeks of closures due to high levels of fecal bacteria.
Those ongoing concerns led to the closure, the report said.
Borough administrator Susan Minock referred a Patch reporter to Beachwood Mayor William J. Cairns on Tuesday. Messages left for Cairns were not immediately answered.
Water quality issues have led to dozens of swimming closures at the beach over the years and in 2020, the beach was declared the dirtiest in New Jersey.
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