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Poor water quality closes third Suffolk beach

Suffolk County has closed Tanner Park Beach in Copiague to bathing "due to the finding of bacterial levels in excess of acceptable criteria," the county's health department said Tuesday in a news release.

Lake Ronkonkoma Beach in Islip and Valley Grove Beach in Eaton's Neck also remain closed to bathing, the department said.

The beaches will stay closed "until subsequent samples indicate...

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