A town resident is concerned the water at Martin Park Beach made her son and other children sick this week, but a town official reports he doesn’t think the pond was the cause.
The children began vomiting and running fevers after swimming at the pond on Wednesday, said Megdalena Fincham, of Florida Road.
She said she contacted the local health department, and was told the pond would be inspected Monday.
“In the meantime, we have a weekend coming and I don’t want kids to go through what we went through, without a warning,” Fincham said.
Health department officials said it rained heavily since then so whatever the woman believes was in the pond has been washed away. In he meantime, bacteria tests came back from the laboratory Thursday negative, said Ed Briggs, the health director.
Briggs said there were reports of 26 children becoming ill, but it was apparently not from the pond water. No lifeguards or adults got sick, he said.
The Parks and Recreation Department was also on top of the situation, saying it must have been something else that made the boys sick, not the pond water.
“My grandson had those symptoms and he was not at the beach,” said Paul Roche, director of Parks and Recreation.
Roche said the department tests the water each week and the pond is fine. More than 200 children visited the pond this week and none reported sick, he said.
“It may be a flu going around,” Roche said of the woman’s complaint.
“We did a survey and feel it’s not the water,” he said.
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