Green means the beach’s most recent test results met relevant water quality standards. | |
Red means the beach’s most recent test results failed to meet water quality standards. | |
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. |
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. This means that rather than displaying current data it displays the beach's average water quality for that year.
Green means the beach passed water quality tests 95% of the time or more. | |
Yellow means the beach passed water quality tests 60-95% of the time. | |
Red means the beach failed water quality tests 40% of the time or more. |
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."
This means that this site has been issued a Blue Flag status for the current swimming season. This status does not indicate current water quality. | |
Red means the water at the site has water quality issues or there is an emergency. | |
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. |
See the beach description for more information regarding their special status. |
The Fraser Basin Council (FBC) is a charitable non-profit organization that brings people together to advance sustainability in the Fraser River Basin and throughout B.C. We are honoured to provide secretariat and other support to the Fraser Valley Illegal Dumping Alliance (FVIDA), a grassroots coalitions of concerned citizens, local governments, business and others, whose volunteers are dedicated to finding solutions to the issue of ongoing illegal dumping in Fraser Valley region.
The main goal of FVIDA is to raise awareness and inspire behavioural changes to curb illegal dumping. We do this through a combination of large cleanup events, small ‘hot-spot’ cleanups, education outreach, and social media campaigns.
Since officially launching in 2015, FVIDA’s efforts have removed upwards of 140 tonnes of illegally dumped waste from sensitive, salmon-rearing freshwater habitat in the central Fraser Valley, and contributed to a 60% increase in reporting of dumping to Conservation Officers. In 2019, FVIDA’s annual Gill Road Cleanup drew more than 700 volunteers, who collected 6.5 tonnes in one day.
FVIDA continues to educate communities on the negative impacts of pallet burning and abandoned garbage on the environment. We aim to change behaviour and to leave a healthy environment for the next generation.
phone: +604 488-5350
email: ctoth@fraserbasin.bc.ca
website: www.fraserbasin.bc.ca
facebook: www.facebook.com/FVIDAcleanup/
address:
Fraser Basin Council,
1st Floor, 470 Granville St.,
Vancouver, BC V6C 1V5
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