Hillside Beach

Traverse Bay, Manitoba

Managed by North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper

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Hillside Beach is a long sandy beach along a protected bay on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. Like many beaches on this Lake, it is bordered by a lagoon separated by sand dunes from the beach. The Hillside Beach lagoon is large and suitable for boating, fishing, or bird watching. There are boat launches into both the lagoon and the lake in Hillside. The public beach has portable outhouses installed during the summer months for visitors. Hillside Beach has a general store and gas station one block from the beach which has a restaurant and picnic tables, and provides modern washrooms. They also serve ice-cream and sell firewood.

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Water Quality

Failed to meet water quality standards
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This means the affiliate organization managing a beach has set the beach status based on special local knowledge or information. Check the beach description and the Sources section for details.

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Source Information

Manitoba Sustainable Development, has developed the Clean Beaches Program to provide valuable information to the public on how to protect Manitoba’s beautiful beaches and reduce the risk of illness to bathers. There are about 60 beaches across Manitoba that are routinely monitored each season for E. coli and the presence of algae and the algal toxin microcystin. Beaches that exceed Manitoba’s recreational water quality objectives are posted with advisory signs at the beach and on Manitoba’s beach website at: Manitoba.ca/beaches. Water quality samples are routinely collected during the summer months. Monitoring typically begins in June and continues at most beaches until the end of August. Frequency of sampling is determined based on recreational intensity, historic bacteria data, or in support of special projects. Swim Guide checks daily from Monday - Friday for E. coli and algae advisories. If the geometric mean of E. coli samples exceeds Manitoba’s recreational water quality objective of 200 bacteria/100 mL and/or when a single sample contains more than 400 bacteria/100 mL the beach is re-sampled. A beach is marked Green when the geometric mean of E. coli samples is below Manitoba’s recreational water quality objective of 200 bacteria/100 mL.A beach is marked Red when the geometric mean of E. coli samples is above Manitoba’s recreational water quality objective of 200 bacteria/100 mL. A beach is marked Grey when reliable or up-to-date information is not available.

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