Water access at Ocean City and surrounding beaches on the Delmarva Peninsula was restricted Sunday after officials say a “significant” amount of medical waste, including hypodermic needles, had washed ashore.

OCEAN CITY, Md. — Officials along the Eastern Shore are closing down the beaches, but not for the season. According to the Maryland State Parks X account, formerly known as Twitter, a lot of medical waste has been seen washing up on shores throughout Maryland.

In a post to the town's Facebook page, emergency services director Joe Theobald shared that no medical waste was found by the Public Works Department after a post-high tide cleanup