California Beaches Blog

How is your ocean water quality this week? If you step into the Pacific Ocean on a California beach, you really  need to check the quality to make sure you won’t get sick. Last week saw a high number of closures and this week hasn’t really gone down much. Let’s see if the same spots [...]

Greetings from the Beach Reporter!We love our rain in California, but we hate what it does to our beaches.
California beaches–On Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, Healthebay.org issued a warning to stay out of most California beach waters  for 72 hours after the first rain of the season. The 72 hour self-monitoring ban is over, but as [...]

This hasn’t been that great week for water quality at California beaches. Topping the chart are 21 beach locations with a flat “F” grade. And that’s not even getting into the D water quality issues. Some of the repeat offending beaches have been on the list throughout the summer and should be no surprise. With [...]

Pollution is an equal opportunity offender, as seen in the current water quality reports from Heal the Bay monitoring this past week. While no closures are reported (though a sewage leak did close a beach a few weeks ago near the Oceanside Pier), there are some beaches with ocean water not fit for humans to [...]