Sandy Hill Camp

North East, Maryland

Sandy Hill Beach is located in North East, on Elk River. Sandy Hill is a 221 acres camp and retreat centre. The beach is the access point for a number of water activities, including canoeing, sailing, tubing, swimming.

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Water Quality

Passed water quality tests at least 95% of the time
Historical Status
This status is based on the latest sample, taken on August 17th, 2022. Swim Guide - Main updates the status of this beach as soon as test results become available. These results were posted to Swim Guide on August 17th, 2022 at 4:54 PM.

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Current Weather

23°C

A mix of sun and clouds

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Monitoring Frequency

Source Information

Sampling season runs from May - August each year. Samples are analyzed for entercocci bacteria, with results reported as the geometric mean of the number of "colony forming units" (CFU) per 100 ml of water for three samples collected at the beach each date. High priority beaches are sampled weekly, medium priority beaches biweekly and low priority beaches monthly. Maryland Department of Environment Regulations establish the following limits for bacteria:

A beach is marked Green when single sample results show enterococci counts below 104 units/ 100 ml of water for high and medium priority beaches or 158 cfu / 100ml of water for low priority beaches.

A beach is marked Red when single sample results have enterococci counts above 104 units/ 100 ml of water for high and medium priority beaches or when the geometric mean of all samples collected over 30 days is above 35 cfu / 100 ml of water.

A beach is marked Grey when reliable or up-to-date information is not available.

Sample results are available at: http://www.cecilcountyhealth.org/ccdhxx/ccdhBeaches.asp

Maryland Healthy Beaches notification system has partnered with Google Earth to send updates. However, Swim Guide prefers to contact the Health Department directly as we are unable to determine the monitoring schedule Google Earth uses.

Water Quality Graph

Beach	Location	Water Quality
Red Point Beach Red Point, Maryland	Red Point, Maryland	Current Status
Elk Neck State Park Elk River North East, Maryland	North East, Maryland	Historical Status
Elk Neck State Park North East River North East, Maryland	North East, Maryland	Historical Status
Buttonwood Beach Earleville, Maryland	Earleville, Maryland	Historical Status

Beach

Location

Water Quality

Red Point Beach

Red Point, Maryland

Current Status

Elk Neck State Park Elk River

North East, Maryland

Historical Status

Elk Neck State Park North East River

North East, Maryland

Historical Status

Buttonwood Beach

Earleville, Maryland

Historical 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.