Just how safe is the Safeswim website?
Just how safe is the Safeswim website?
9 June 2019
A 4-year-old girl suffered an infection at an Auckland beach marked safe for swimming, after several disconcerting errors on the Safeswim website last summer.
Auckland Council emails obtained by the Herald on Sunday reveal at least seven instances of an Auckland swimming spot being inaccurately marked as safe on the website, or delays in warning signs being put up.
Most alarming was a council email chain about whether a black alert "very high risk of illness" should have remained at Mission Bay Beach for several days longer, after appearing for only 48 hours in December.
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