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| Action Duration | For each beach with an action: Each action for each beach is sorted into one of five action duration groups (1 day duration, 2 days duration, 3-7 days duration, 8-30 days duration, or greater than 30 days duration). The list is sorted by county and beach name. Note: An action can be based on a model or policy and not be a monitored beach.
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| Advisory and Monitoring |
For each beach: Presents a condensed combination of the"Action" and "Water Quality" Reports for the most recent 2 week period of submitted data (most recent to older order) including: dates, duration of actions, basis for action, possible cause and source, monitoring results.The list is sorted by "state", county, and beach name. Note: This report will not return data if none has been submitted in the prior two weeks. |
| Beach Actions (Advisories and Closures) | For each beach action at a beach: Presents details of each beach action including: (1) type of action (e.g., closure, rain advisory, contamination advisory), (2) starting and ending date and time (in the case of partial day actions) of the action, (3a) duration of the action in days (“day” is defined as: an action lasting less than 24 hours will have a duration of 1 day. Any action lasting 24 hours or more will have a duration equal to the number of days on which the action occurred), (3b) for jurisdictions using partial day actions, the action will be in hours and percentage of time the beach was affected is calculated against the beach day length), (4) action reason, source, and the indicator used to trigger the action. The list is sorted by county, beach name and action start date. The default "1. Primary Report" combines into one line all action Reasons, Indicators, and Possible Sources as a "Main Report". To see a detailed listing, move your cursor to the right and click on "Detailed Report". Note: An action can be based on a model or policy and not be a monitored beach.
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| Beach Attributes
| For each beach: Identifies attributes of each beach including: (1) beach tier ranking, (2) beach length, and (3) latitude/longitude. The list is sorted by county and beach name. |
| Beach Days | For each beach: The number of beach days in the swimming season (based on swimming season length) is presented for each beach. If the beach had an action (1) the total number of action days and (2) the percentage of beach days the beach was under an action are also presented. The list is sorted by county and beach name. Note: This report includes monitored and non-monitored beaches. An action can be based on a model or policy and not be a monitored beach.
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| Beach Monitoring Frequency | For each beach: Identifies swim season and monitoring attributes of each beach including: (1) swimming season length and (2) in- and off-season monitoring frequency. The list is sorted by county and beach name.
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| Beach Profile | For each beach: Presents beach administrative information including: beach name, beach ID, location, contact information, public access, Tier, swim season, monitoring and reporting frequency, possible pollution sources. The list is sorted by "state", county, and beach name.
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| Local Action Decision Procedures | For each beach: Identifies Local Action Decision Procedures (LADP) used to notify the public of beach actions. The list is sorted by county and beach name. For details on a particular beach see the Beach Profile report.
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| Possible Pollution Sources | For each beach: Identifies if possible pollution sources have been investigated or associated with a Beach Action and, if so, what are the possible sources that might affect beach water quality. The list is sorted by county and beach name.
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| RSS Feed | News feed for Beaches: Brief news feed that links to the advisory and monitoring report for the selected beach. The RSS feed link can only display about 200 beaches at a time. If too many beaches are selected to display in the RSS feed, then any over the 200 limit will be excluded. In order to view an RSS feed, the user must have an RSS feed reader installed. Some browsers may come standard with feed readers but other browsers may require a separate download. More information about news feeds (also called "RSS") from USA.gov.  |
| State Summary | For each county: Displays key summary statistics concerning beaches including: (1) number and length of monitored beaches, (2) number of monitored Tier 1 beaches, (3) number and durations of monitored beach actions, and (4) the number of monitored beach days and/or hours under an action. The list is sorted by county name. Please note: this report can take several minutes to load if only a few filters have been applied. |
| Tier 1 Stats | For each beach designated as Tier 1: Presents beach attributes and action information including : (1) beach length, (2) swim season monitoring frequency, (3) number of beach days, and (4) number of days under an action. The list is sorted by county and beach name. Please note: this report can take several minutes to load if only a few filters have been applied. |
| Water Quality | For each monitored beach: Presents details of water quality monitoring results collected for the beach program (from WQX/WQP) including: beach ID, beach name, sampling station ID, date/time of sample, collection method, characteristic(s) (e.g., pathogen indicator) sampled, results, analytical method, statistic type (e.g. geometric mean). The list is sorted by "state", county, and beach ID, station ID. date of sample (recent to older).
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| WQS Criteria | For each beach:
Presents details of the water quality standards that apply to the water accessible from the beach. Includes Indicator Name, Water Type, Measure Type, Measure Value, Measure Unit, Criteria Comment. The list is sorted by state, year, and beach by default. The "WQS Criteria" column can be used to sort records by unique criteria records. Note: This report includes monitored and non-monitored beaches because all waters have WQS.
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