{"id":156722,"date":"2011-11-17T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bda3f8fd-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2011-11-17T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T19:48:00","slug":"bda3f90d-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bda3f90d-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Rota, 4 Saipan beach sites red-flagged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Division of Environment Quality has red-flagged Rota\u2019s Kokomo Beach, Mobil storm drain, and District 2 storm drain, and Saipan\u2019s central repair shop, DPW channel bridge, south Puerto Rico dump, and CK District 4 drainage and is advising the public not to fish or swim within 300 feet of these locations for the next 48 hours or until otherwise notified. <\/p>\n<p>DEQ said that samples collected from these locations had excessive concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria (enterococci), which can indicate the presence of human and animal waste in the water.<br \/>\nWater samples were taken from 12 locations on Rota and 38 on Saipan this week. For more information, contact DEQ at 664-8500. [B][I](DEQ)[\/I][\/B]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Division of Environment Quality has red-flagged Rota\u2019s Kokomo Beach, Mobil storm drain, and District 2 storm drain, and Saipan\u2019s central repair shop, DPW channel bridge, south Puerto Rico dump, and CK District 4 drainage and is advising the public not to fish or swim within 300 feet of these locations for the next 48 hours or until otherwise notified. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}