However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in closure of public beaches and suspension of inter-island flights, regular water quality sampling of these sites was temporarily suspended on March 30.
Due to the subsequent reopening of beaches for individual use for purposes of exercise and wellness, both physical and mental, and shoreline subsistence fishing such as talaya and rod and reel, as well as the limited availability of inter-island cargo flights, BECQ will resume water sampling at locations on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota the week of April 13.
