CLEVELAND, Ohio - For the second consecutive week, heavy rainfall triggered a combined sewer overflow that discharged raw sewage into Lake Erie at Edgewater Park, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District announced this morning.

Polluted water advisories were posted up and down the lakeshore in Northeast Ohio, warning swimmers of the presence of high levels of e. coli bacteria and advising people to stay out of the water.

In addition to Edgewater, the Ohio Nowcast system posted advisories at Huntington, Villa Angela, Euclid, Mentor Headlands and Vermilion beaches. Only the Fairport Harbor beach was rated good for swimming.

The Ohio Department of Health's BeachGuard system posted 17 bacteria advisories on Lake Erie, with 10 in Cuyahoga and Lake counties. In addition to the advisories at Edgewater, Villa Angela, Euclid, Huntington, and Headlands, warnings were raised for Columbia Park, Wagar, Moss Point, and Arcadia beaches.

The warnings advise visitors - particularly children, the elderly and those in ill health - to avoid contact with the water and debris.

The bacteria-polluted beach water could remain for several more days, depending on environmental and water-quality variables such as rainfall, wind speed, water current, and wave height.