West Tisbury Beaches Re-Opened

All West Tisbury braches have been re-opened for swimming, following due to elevated bacteria levels.

Lambert's Cove, Seth's Pond, Seven Gates Salt Works, Long Cove Pond, the ocean at Long Point Wildlife Refuge, and Tisbury Great Pond had all been closed to swimmers after the waters there tested positive for high levels of enterococci, indicator organisms that found in sewage

Five clean water samples from consecutive days were required to re-open the beaches.

Seth’s Pond, Seven Gates Salt Works and Long Cove Pond were ; Lambert’s Cove, the ocean at Long Point Wildlife Refuge and Tisbury Great Pond were re-opened on Tuesday.

The West Tisbury beach closures were accompanied by a similar spate of closures in Oak Buffs that included Inkwell Beach, Pay Beach, the lagoon side of Eastville Beach near the drawbridge and Medeiros Cove. Of those, only Medeiros Cove at this time.