Bear Neck Creek in eastern Anne Arundel County is safe for swimmer, fishermen and direct human contact after a sewage spill last month closed the creek.
The creek was reopened late Wednesday afternoon after test samples of the creek’s water showed no signs of harmful bacteria from treated sewage that overflowed from a treatment plant in Mayo into the creek on Sept. 24, Anne Arundel health officials said.
The county had posted signs warning people not to swim or touch the water.
Since 2004, nearly 300,000 gallons of sewage have spilled from county treatment plants into waterways that ultimately feed into the Chesapeake Bay. Most of the sewage spills have come from the Mayo treatment plant.
