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Corcoran's Pond, a town owned water body in Waterville Valley, a 7-acre resort pond had two yellow fecal bacteria warning signs posted into the town sand beach from August 20 to Friday, August 30, when they got removed on Friday, August 30.

That was a totally welcome change in the pond's water condition status and excellent timing for the 8.5x11" yellow warning signs, "Unsafe for Swimming or Wading" to disappear just prior to the busy three day, Sat-Sun-Mon Labor Day weekend.

The water surface had been looking very clean and clear throughout these ten days with no visible surface growth and no ugly scum present, and there was one big rain event that lowered the water temp from about 70 down to 65-degrees which is wicked cold for swimming the deep water but ok for wading.

All throughout this summer and past summers I've been swimming a 200-yard triangle course across the pond, to the dam, and back to the beach, so I am very familiar with Corcoran's Pond plus I make it a habit to pick up small pieces of plastic and paper litter from the large sandy town beach.

This weekend has seen a lot of visitors using the beach area for volleyball, fishing, picnics, music, family, a lot of weekend visitors come to Waterville Valley on this big holiday weekend so it was great that the two yellow warning signs were gonzo on Friday. Thank-you NH DES for doing what you do!