Rockport Beach North

Rockport, Texas

Located on Aransas Bay in Rockport, this was Texas's first beach to be designated Blue Wave, an environmental certification for American beaches. Visitors to Rockport Beach can enjoy saltwater swimming, fishing, windsurfing, walking trails, and a children's playground. There is a car entrance fee.

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Water Quality

Meets water quality standards
Current Status
This status is based on the latest sample, taken on June 5th, 2023. Swim Guide - Main updates the status of this beach as soon as test results become available. These results were posted to Swim Guide on June 6th, 2023 at 4:09 PM.

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Current Weather

28°C

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Monitoring Frequency

Source Information

The Texas General Land Office (GLO) administers the Texas Beach Watch Program.

Samples are collected weekly during the peak beach season from May through September and every other week from October through April. In March weekly samples are collected for Beach Watch stations on all gulf beaches to coincide with spring break.

There are three levels of advisories in Texas. The lowest level occurs when enterococcus densities are below 35 cfu (colony forming units)/100 ml. A medium-level advisory occurs when enterococcus densities are between 35 cfu/100 ml and 104 cfu/100 ml, and a high-level advisory is issued, with swimming not recommended, when the enterococcus density is greater than 104 cfu/100 ml.

The public is notified of all advisory levels on the Internet, but signs are posted on the beach and in Swim Guide for high-level advisories.

A beach is marked Green when single sample results contain fewer than 104 cfu/100 ml of water

A beach is marked Red when single sample results contain more than 104 cfu/100 ml of water

A beach is marked Grey when there is no current or reliable monitoring information available.

Water Quality Graph

Beach	Location	Water Quality
Rockport Beach Park South Rockport, Texas	Rockport, Texas	Current Status
Rockport Saltwater Pool Rockport, Texas	Rockport, Texas	Current Status
Little Bay Ski Basin Rockport, Texas	Rockport, Texas	Current Status
Lighthouse Lake Port Aransas, Texas	Port Aransas, Texas	Current Status

Beach

Location

Water Quality

Rockport Beach Park South

Rockport, Texas

Current Status

Rockport Saltwater Pool

Rockport, Texas

Current Status

Little Bay Ski Basin

Rockport, Texas

Current Status

Lighthouse Lake

Port Aransas, Texas

Current Status

	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.

	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.

	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.