Pompano Beach Pier

Pompano Beach, Florida

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Pompano Beach was awarded a Blue Wave Beach designation, along with five other Broward County municipalities, by the Clean Beaches Council. This beach offers watersports, sand volleyball, swimming, fishing, boating, kayaking, sailing, a playground, a boardwalk and picnic grounds. Kiteboarding is permitted off of the 16th street beach but is strictly regulated, so obey boundaries or you may get a ticket. Catamarans and sailboards may be launched at N.E. 16th Street and are required to stay 200 yards off the public beach.Or, bring your boogie board instead as you will have unrestricted access to the waves! Lifeguards are on duty from 9 to 5pm daily. No dogs or alcohol on the beach. Restroom facilities, showers, picnic shelters and tables, barbecue grills and children's playground are located on the beach.
The Pompano Beach Pier (222 North Pompano Beach Boulevard) is open 24 hours a day and bait is available in the tackle shop. The pier is approximately 1000 feet in length. Food and beverages can be purchased at the pier. Be on the lookout for warnings re: Portuguese Man-O-Wars and Sea Lice outbreaks caused by juvenile stage jellyfish, sporadically occurring between March and August.

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La playa Pompano recibió una designación de Blue Wave Beach, junto con otros cinco municipios del condado de Broward, por el Consejo de Playas Limpias. Esta playa ofrece deportes acuáticos, voleibol de arena, natación, pesca, paseos en bote, kayak, navegación, parque infantil, paseo marítimo y áreas de picnic. Se permite el kitesurf fuera de la playa de la calle 16, pero está estrictamente regulado, así que obedezca los límites o puede ser multado. Catamaranes y tablas de vela pueden ser lanzados en la calle 16 Nor Este y debe permanecer a 200 yardas de la playa pública. ¡O traiga su tabla, ya que tendrás acceso ilimitado a las olas! Los salvavidas están en servicio de 9 a 5 pm todos los días. No se admiten perros ni alcohol en la playa. En la playa hay servicios de baños, duchas, refugios y mesas para picnic, las parrillas para barbacoa y parque infantil.
El muelle de Pompano Beach (222 North Pompano Beach Boulevard) está abierto las 24 horas del día y la carnada está disponible en la tienda de aparejos. El muelle es de aproximadamente 1000 pies de longitud. En el muelle se pueden comprar alimentos y bebidas. Esté atento a las advertencias sobre los brotes de Carabela portuguesa y Piojos de Mar causados por medusas en etapa juvenil, que ocurren esporádicamente entre marzo y agosto.

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COVID-19

Keep your distance from other people.

Practicing social distancing is essential right now. Follow the advice of the health experts. If your community has asked that you remain indoors and away from others, do so. Heading to the beach should only be considered an option if social distancing practices can be followed. Spending a day in any crowded place is the worst thing we can do for our most vulnerable right now and will counter the efforts to curb the virus’ spread.

For more information, please visit the World Health Organization public resource on COVID-19.

Water Quality

Meets water quality standards
Current Status
This status is based on the latest sample, taken on March 1st, 2021. Miami Waterkeeper updates the status of this beach as soon as test results become available. These results were posted to Swim Guide on March 3th, 2021 at 9:17 AM.

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Water quality results displayed at this location were collected by the Florida Department of Health’s (DOH) Florida Healthy Beaches (FHB) program. FHB may resample a beach on subsequent days if a water quality issue is detected. The information is updated on Swim Guide by Miami Waterkeeper (www.miamiwaterkeeper.org), a local nonprofit focused on ensuring clean water. Miami Waterkeeper enters Swim Guide data for both Miami-Dade County and Broward County’s DOH.

Samples are collected weekly (typically on Mondays) to test for levels of enterococci, a type of bacteria that indicates that pathogenic bacteria and viruses associated with fecal pollution may be present. These bacteria are known as fecal indicator bacteria (FIB). Analysis of samples takes 24 hours to culture before results are available. All local sampling programs on Swim Guide also use the thresholds for water quality as written in the Florida Administrative Code, based on the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s 2012 Recreational Water Quality Criteria: Good= 0-35 CFU/MPN enterococci / 100 mL of marine water; Moderate= 36-69 CFU/MPN enterococci / 100 mL of marine water; and Poor= 70 CFU/MPN or greater enterococci / 100 mL of marine water. Clicking the pie chart icon will reveal a summary of the prior yearly or monthly of pass/fail data. A sampling location is marked GREY when no current or reliable monitoring information is available.

Testing sites are resampled by DOH after a failed water quality test until conditions return to safe levels. The DOH will only issue a formal “swim advisory” after two failed tests in a row, but Miami Waterkeeper will mark a beach as “RED” on Swim Guide after a single failed test is reported by any of the sampling organizations, if the data is posted by DOH. These conservative advisories inform vulnerable people (children, elderly, and the immunocompromised) who have elevated health risks due to water quality at the beach.
Miami Waterkeeper will also mark a beach as "Special Status" if information comes from other sources indicating that the water is unsafe, for example, a sewage leak, red tide, or oil spill. If data is more than a week old, sites will show a historical record of water quality data from a given site.

The Department of Health’s Florida Healthy Beaches program is a state-run initiative in partnership with Miami-Dade County and 33 other coastal counties in the state of Florida. The Florida Healthy Beaches program has been collecting and analyzing water samples from beaches and reporting FIB levels since 2000. (http://www.floridahealth.gov/environmental-health/beach-water-quality)

Miami Waterkeeper’s Water Quality Monitoring program is run by full-time investigators and staff that sample common recreation sites on a weekly basis to ensure the water you love is clean and safe. This program aims to sample locations not currently sampled by the Florida Healthy Beaches program or Surfrider Miami in an attempt to fill in gaps in local water quality monitoring. Visit Miami Waterkeeper at www.miamiwaterkeeper.org/water_monitoring or email hello@miamiwaterkeeper.org if you have any additional questions or to view a complete set of monitoring data.

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