We will get a couple weeks of summer in at Port Dalhousie's Lakeside Park.
Director of Municipal Works with the city of St. Catharines Darrell Smith says it's been a challenging year.
He says closures were necessary even as water levels were receding, given that any kind of wave action would break the shoreline and refill standing water ponds.
Smith says ultimately the deciding factor for opening the beach was the city believes it would take a very large storm to produce the kind of wave action that would impact the shoreline.
In 2017, the historically high water levels went down much faster allowing for 3 extra weeks of an open beach.
Smith mentions the region has tested the water and cleared Lakeside Park for swimming.