Back Beach

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Black sand captures and stores the sun's heat warming the beach for strollers and shoreline swimmers. Back Beach is known as one of the best surfing beaches in the region. Swells reach a height of 1-3.5 meters with breaks along the beach.

WATER QUALITY

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Current Status
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The council issues an amber alert if a single sample level of enterococci are greater than 140 units / 100 ml of water. Daily testing would occur to determine if the problem is ongoing. When two consecutive results show Enterococci levels higher than 280 units / 100ml of water warnings are posted. Signs will also be posted at beaches and until water levels return to a safe level.

Pulse Energy updates Swim Guide for the latest water quality information daily, Monday - Friday during the swimming season.

A beach has a GREEN current status in Swim Guide when it has met the water quality standard of <140 enterococci/100 mL and has a rank of GREEN.

A beach has a RED current status in Swim Guide when samples exceed the water quality criteria of >140 enterococci/100 mL and there is an AMBER or RED alert.

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

Swimming is not recommended within 48 hours after a heavy rainfall or around stormwater outfalls and at stream mouths.

For more information, call Health Protection on 06 753 7798 (24 hours).

Data in Swim Guide is sourced from LAWA’s “Can I Swim Here” program.
Visit LAWA’s factsheet on recreational monitoring in NZ here. https://www.lawa.org.nz/learn/factsheets/what-do-the-swim-icons-mean/
LAWA assigns each site a grade, which is based on the last three years of monitoring data from the site.

WATER QUALITY GRAPH

Back Beach

New Plymouth, New Zealand

Managed by Pulse Energy

WATER QUALITY

No data available
Current Status
This status is based on the latest sample, taken on . Pulse Energy updates the status of this beach as soon as test results become available. These results were posted to Swim Guide on at

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WATER QUALITY GRAPH

Beach	Location	Water Quality
Ngāmotu Beach New Plymouth, New Zealand	New Plymouth, New Zealand	Historical Status
Te Henui Stream at mouth New Plymouth, New Zealand	New Plymouth, New Zealand	Historical Status
East End Beach New Plymouth, New Zealand	New Plymouth, New Zealand	Historical Status
Oakura River Oakura, New Zealand	Oakura, New Zealand	Historical Status

Other Beaches Near This One

Beach	Location	Water Quality
Ngāmotu Beach New Plymouth, New Zealand	New Plymouth, New Zealand	Historical Status
Te Henui Stream at mouth New Plymouth, New Zealand	New Plymouth, New Zealand	Historical Status
East End Beach New Plymouth, New Zealand	New Plymouth, New Zealand	Historical Status
Oakura River Oakura, New Zealand	Oakura, New Zealand	Historical Status

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	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.

	Green means the beach has historically excellent or pristine water quality, but there is no current data.

	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.