The local health unit will no longer check the water quality for swimming at the Gore’s Landing wharf owned by Hamilton Township.

But councillors want more information and are asking that the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit send a delegation to an upcoming council session for to explain the details, township administrator Betty McIntosh said in an interview Tuesday.

A May 28, 2010 letter from the health unit informed the municipal council that the area no longer meets the criteria of a public beach. Those criteria include that the swimming area be directly accessed by the public, “allows supervised aquatics programs or is staffed by lifeguards” and that it “meets the requirements of the sampling protocol for sampling sites.”

The assistant director of the health unit’s environmental health department has advised Hamilton Township council to post a “swim at your own risk” sign that also informs the public that no water testing is being done.