Overall
Results
The overall water quality at California beaches this
past summer was very good. Of the 436 monitoring locations
throughout California, 383 locations (87.6%) received
very good-to-excellent water quality marks (344 As and
39 Bs). There were 53 locations (12.4%) that received
fair-to-poor water quality marks (25 Cs, 15 Ds and 13
Fs). Overall, California’s summer beach water quality
grades were similar to the summers of 2003 and 2002.
This
is the first California Summer Beach Report Card
to include water quality information for San Francisco
County. Although water quality monitoring programs
exist in Del Norte, Mendocino, and Marin, Heal the
Bay was not able to obtain their data for this analysis.
Heal the Bay plans to include their water quality
monitoring information by spring 2005.
For
overall and county-by-county grade statistics, please
see the California
Grade Summary page.
For county grades, please see the County
Analyses page.
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