E. coli bacteria levels at Mill Creek and Lake Newport remain below public health threshhold level

YOUNGSTOWN — E. coli bacteria levels measured this week, like those from last week, in Mill Creek and Lake Newport water are far below the public health hazard threshold.

Under sunny and dry weather conditions similar to those of last week, the samples were collected Tuesday for the second week of a 12-week testing program by the Mahoning County Board of Health.

Lab results were announced late this afternoon.

Because it’s still early in the testing program, the BOH cautioned against drawing any conclusions.

Lakes Newport, Cohasset and Glacier in Mill Creek Park were closed to all recreational uses July 10 after five of seven earlier county BOH test sample results exceeded the potential public health threat level.

Those results followed a massive Lake Newport fish kill the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency attributed primarily to combined city storm and sanitary sewer overflow discharges following heavy late June rainfall.

E. coli are found in sewage and mammal feces.

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