These Massachusetts beaches are closed to swimming due to bacteria levels

WORCESTER – Sunday is a hot and humid day in Massachusetts, but there are more than 40 beaches in the state that are currently off-limits to swimming due to bacteria levels in the water and other reasons.

Each day, the state publishes a dashboard of beach closures throughout the summer season. As of Sunday, the list includes:

• Damon Pond Beach, Ashby (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Hopkinton Reservoir - Main Beach (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Malibu, Boston (Bacterial Exceedance)
  
• Tenean, Boston (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Smith Beach, Braintree (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Cold River Pool, Charlemont (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Bucks Creed, Chatham (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Oyster Pond, Chatham (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Hidden Bay, Dartmouth (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Clipper Lane, Dennis (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Waushakum Beach, Framingham (Bacterial Exceedance)
  
• Dunn Pond, Gardner (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Merrimac River - Bath House, Lowell (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Kings, Lynn (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Houghton's Pond at Bathhouse, Milton (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Black Rock, Nahant (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Miacomet Pond, Nantucket (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom)
• Washington Street, Nantucket (Bacterial Exceedance)
• York Lake Beach, New Marlboro (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Pilgrim Lake, Orleans (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom)
• Lulu Pond Beach, Pittsfield (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Wollaston at Channing Street, Quincy (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Wollaston at Milton Street, Quincy (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Wollaston at Rice Road, Quincy (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Wollaston at Sachem Street (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Whitehall Pond Beach, Rutland (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Children's Island - Back, Salem (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Ocean Avenue, Salem (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Cedar Lake Recreation Area, Sturbridge (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Beamans Pond, Templeton (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Pearl Hill Pond Beach, Townsend (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Long Cove, West Tisbury (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Shannon Beach at Upper Mystic, Winchester (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Donovans, Winthrop (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Pico, Winthrop (Bacterial Exceedance)
• Lake Quinsigamond - Regatta Point Beach, Worcester (Bacterial Exceedance)

Other beaches currently closed in Massachusetts

Several other beaches in Massachusetts are also closed for reasons other than bacteria. They include:

• Walden Pond, Concord
• Lake Mansfield, Great Barrington
• Camp Naumkeag, Salem
• Kings Beach, Swampscott