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 Salmon Drift Creek Watershed Council’s mission is to promote the protection or restoration of healthy fish and wildlife resources, water quality, water quantity, and overall watershed health. They assess the condition of the watershed and determine restoration strategies, and then implement the projects and monitor the results.
Because of this work the SDCWC, with the support of their volunteers, partners, and funders collects water quality data throughout the watersheds in our boundary. These include the Salmon River, Devils Lake, Drift Creek, and Schooner Creek and their tributaries. The outfall for each of these water bodies is ultimately the Pacific Ocean. This means impacts to the beach water quality may be a result of upstream activities. The monitoring this organization does includes collecting information on bacteria, temperature, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, and turbidity. They have created the baseline of data for evaluating the health of these systems and the potential need for restoration. SDCWC’s program is currently supported by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Surfrider Blue Water Task Force, and Neighbors For Kids in Depoe Bay, Oregon where the bacteria lab is located.
Website: http://www.salmondrift.org/
Phone: (541) 996-3161
Email: contact@salmondrift.org
Facebook: @salmondriftWC
Twitter: @SalmonRvEstuary
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