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Find Information about a Particular U.S. Beach

Find info about U.S. beaches: 1. Find out if the Water Quality of a Beach is Monitored 2. Find out which Beaches are Closed Now or have Health Advisories Now 3. Find out which Beaches were Closed or under Health Advisories in the Recent Past 4. Read Reports the EPA has Released

Find out if the Water Quality of a Beach is Monitored

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency maintains a list of beaches (and similar points of access to coastal recreation waters) used by the public, as required by the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act. This National List of Beaches provides information whether a beach that is included in a water quality monitoring and public notification program is monitored or not, or if it is not part of the program (those are shown as “Tier 4” in the list). You can select a jurisdiction’s name to find information on individual beaches. The list contains the most recent information that states, territories and Tribes with coastal and Great Lakes beaches have submitted to the EPA. You can also access pdf versions of the list from 2004, 2008, and 2010. * Visit the interactive National List of Beaches to view if a beach is monitored

How to View the Lists of Beaches and Other Beach Details

To view details for a state, Tribe, or territory, select its name. Each jurisdiction's list is primarily organized by county. For some territories and Hawaii, the beaches are listed by island. Alaska's beaches are reported by community. Tribal beaches are listed by name. Beach names are listed with their monitoring status. Selecting a beach name will take you to a map view of that beach. It shows the extent of the beach, provides the most recent advisory or closure status and water quality monitoring data that has been submitted to the EPA, and a link to the jurisdiction's website.

Find out which Beaches are Closed Now or have Health Advisories Now

States, Tribes, territories and local governments decide whether to open or close a beach. * Visit the State, Territorial, Tribal and EPA Beach Program Contacts page to contact a jurisdiction or visit their website

Find out which Beaches were Closed or under Health Advisories in the Recent Past

The EPA’s BEACON (Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification) system is a national database that contains beach monitoring and notification data reported by states, territories and Tribes. BEACON can produce maps to show the location of more than 6,000 beaches covered by the BEACH Act, and the related water quality monitoring stations, on either road maps or satellite base maps. BEACON can generate reports and trends at the national, state/Tribal/territorial and local levels. The BEACON 2.0 User's Guide describes how to use the online BEACON system to obtain reported beach monitoring and notification data. * Use BEACON’s map database to find reports of health advisories

States, territories and Tribes receiving beach grants submit information on beach monitoring and closures and advisories to the EPA, but they are only required to submit that information once a year, although some report more frequently. Therefore, BEACON has information about the previous year and earlier, but it does not have current information about advisories or closings.

Read Reports the EPA has Released

Annual Swimming Season Reports

The EPA releases an annual report that contains national-level statistics of beach closings and advisories that states, territories and Tribes issued during the swimming season as well as beach data trends over several years. You can also create a report for any year from 2014 to the present that uses the most up-to-date information in the EPA’s database (that may have been updated after our reports were released) using the dynamic report. * (441.23 KB, July 2024, EPA 823-R-24-002) * (405.4 KB, June 2023, EPA 823-R23-005) * (337 KB, July 2022, EPA 823-R-22-002) * (380.9 KB, August 2021, EPA 820-R-21-004) * (408.5 KB, October 2020, EPA 823-R-20-001) * (957.7 KB, July 2019, EPA 820-F-19-002)

Historical Swimming Season Report Information

Implementing the BEACH Act of 2000: Reports to Congress

Every four years the EPA submits a report to Congress on the progress that states, Tribes, territories, the EPA, and other federal agencies have made on implementing the BEACH Act, as required in 33 U.S.C. 1375a. * (2.04 MB, September 2022, EPA 823-R-22-003) * (394.41 KB, July 2018, EPA 823-R-18-002)

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