The 2012 Recreational Water Quality Criteria recommends using 70 CFU per 100 mL as the Beach Action Value (BAV) to guide public health advisories. Poor = 71 or greater Enterococci / 100 mL of marine water. Moderate = 36-70 Enterococci / 100 mL of marine water, and Good = 0-35 Enterococci / 100 mL of marine water The Florida Healthy Beaches Program Categories are: Swim Guide checks for the latest information daily, Monday - Friday during the peak swimming season. Samples are collected year round at many beaches in Florida, but Brevard County's monitoring season is from March to November. Monitoring results are collected bi-weekly on Mondays and results are posted to the Florida Healthy beaches website on Wednesday. In Brevard County beaches are monitored by the Florida Healthy Beaches Program. They reflect the most current recommendations and water quality grant requirements in the 2012 Recreational Water Quality Criteria from the US Environmental Protection Agency. The Florida Department of Health (DOH) adopted new water quality criteria January 2016 for the Healthy Beaches program. Grey means there is no current water quality information, the beach is under construction, there has been an event that has rendered water quality information unreliable or unavailable. Red means the water at the site has water quality issues or there is an emergency.
This status does not indicate current water quality. This means that this site has been issued a Blue Flag status for the current swimming season. We may manually set the status for a specific beach if we have concerns about the sampling protocol, if there is an emergency, if monitoring practices don't exist or have recently changed, or other reasons that render this site "special."
Red means the beach failed water quality tests 40% of the time or more. Yellow means the beach passed water quality tests 60-95% of the time. Green means the beach passed water quality tests 95% of the time or more. This means that rather than displaying current data it displays the beach's average water quality for that year. When swimming season is over or when a beach's water quality data has not been updated frequently enough (weekly) it goes into historical status. Grey means water quality information for the beach is too old (more than 7 days old) to be considered current, or that info is unavailable, or unreliable. Red means the beach’s most recent test results failed to meet water quality standards. That was part of the sales pitch of Measure A and the county’s reduction of park entrance fees to a more reasonable charge helps fulfill that goal.Green means the beach’s most recent test results met relevant water quality standards. Reducing the fees reduces the financial hurdle that some members of the community might face in filling those prescriptions.Īfter all, that’s why public parks exist, to provide recreational opportunities, both active and passive, for all - all ages, races and income levels.
One of the county’s “healthy community” focuses has been getting local physicians to make “Park Prescriptions,” promoting visits to local parks and outdoor activities to patients they believe might benefit. Whether it is to keep the county’s Measure A promise or to eliminate a hurdle for minority and low-income users to use county parks - or both - it is the right thing to do.Ĭounty staff has studied the use of its parks and has found that Paradise Beach in Tiburon, McNears Beach in San Rafael and Stafford Lake in Novato draw the most ethnically and economically diverse users.Ĭounty open space preserves, for which there is no charge, mostly serve wealthier, less diverse users. The fee cut, however, also recognizes that since voter approval of Measure A in 2013, these same households are among those who are already paying for their parks through Measure A’s sales tax increase.Ĭredit Supervisor Katie Rice, who for several years, has urged the county to reconsider its so-called “emergency” fee.
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