Ball Street Beach

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario

Stand up against litter @ your favourite shoreline Join the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup today

Ball Street Beach is on the Lower Niagara River. It is not a priority beach for the area and not tracked in beach monitoring programs as of summer 2010. As of 2010, local and provincial government have expressed uncertainty about the source of water quality problems there. The beach is a narrow strip of partially sandy and partially rocky riverfront with low levels of algae usually present.

WATER QUALITY

No data available
Special Status
This status is based on the latest sample, taken on June 15th, 2011. Lake Ontario Waterkeeper updates the status of this beach as soon as test results become available. These results were posted to Swim Guide on at

For water quality icon legend, click:

CURRENT WEATHER

-4°C

Light snow

View this beach on Great Lakes Guide

Report Pollution

MONITORING FREQUENCY

SOURCE INFORMATION

Water at all sites is sampled for E. coli and Total coliform at all sites.

Niagara Region's Public Health Department issues beach advisories when the geometric mean concentration of at least five samples is at least 200 E. coli / 100 mL of water or when a single sample is at least 400 E. coli / 100 mL of water.

This guideline comes from Canada’s Guidelines for Canadian Recreational Water Quality (2012). It is applied to beaches in Ontario in accordance with Ontario’s Recreational Water Protocol, 2018.

Prior to 2018 beaches in Ontario were posted when the geometric mean of 5 samples collected within a 30-day period exceeded 100 E. coli / 100 mL of water.

Water samples are collected weekly at minimum. Results are posted to Swim Guide when they are available online. Results do not reflect date sample was taken. Results are also available at https://www.niagararegion.ca/living/water/beaches/default.aspx.

In Swim Guide, a beach is marked Green when the geometric mean of at least 5 samples is below 200 E.coli / 100 mL water and each individual sample concentration is below 400 E.coli / 100 mL.

A beach is marked Red when the results are equal to or above a geometric mean of 200 E.coli / 100 mL water and/or 400 E.coli / 100 mL.

A beach is marked Grey when there are no current results or there is no available information.

DISCLAIMER:

Historical data from 2017 and prior reflect the previous Ontario standard of a geometric mean of ≤ 100 E. coli /100 mL.

Historical data from 2018 onward reflect the new Ontario Operational Approaches for Recreational Water Guideline, 2018: Geometric mean concentration ≤ 200 E. coli/ 100 mL and single-sample maximum concentration of ≤ 400 E. coli /100 mL.

WATER QUALITY GRAPH