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The San Diego County Department of Environmental Health (DEH) enhances San Diegans' quality of life by protecting public health and safeguarding environmental quality, educating the public to increase environmental awareness, and implementing and enforcing local, state, and federal environmental laws.

 

 

 
 

 

 
 

“Just an inch of standing water is all it takes for mosquitoes to breed- and West Nile Virus to spread!"

 

 

 

Department of Environmental Health’s

Beach and Bay

Water Quality Monitoring Program

 

After a trip to the beach, visitors should leave with sandy feet and smiles, not an illness.

Our beaches are a precious natural resource to those that live and visit San Diego County. Poor water quality at our beaches not only threatens the health of swimmers and beachgoers but also hurts San Diego’s ocean-dependent economy.

The Department of Environmental Health’s Beach and Bay Water Quality Monitoring Program protects the public health of millions of residents and visitors each year through beach water testing, public education, outreach, and beach postings. Beach postings can include water contact advisories and closures when necessary.

Since 1999 the Department of Environmental Health (DEH) has contracted with the California Department of Public Health, and now the State Water Resources Control Board, to use funds from the Beach Safety Act (AB 411) to perform water quality sampling, act as a clearing house for beach water quality monitoring data from other agencies and to notify the public when water quality standards are not met at recreational beaches (ocean and bays).

The Beach and Bay Water Quality Monitoring Program coordinates the sampling and posting of signs warning of contaminated water at beaches affected by sewage spills, when monitoring indicates bacteria levels exceed State standards, or during other events that may pose a threat to public health.

 
 

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Beach Water Quality Program Overview

 
 

Since water quality is constantly changing
and frequently updated,
please visit:
sdbeachinfo.com
or call the 24-hr. hotline at:
(619) 338-2073
for current water quality conditions in
San Diego County.