Bidart Centre

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La plage de Bidart Centre est située en pied de falaise. Sur sa partie gauche, elle rejoint la plage de l'Uhabia par une bande sableuse, puis finit dans la falaise à son extrémité droite. La plage est fortement fréquentée par les surfeurs toute l'année. En été, son accès est difficile en raison de stationnements limités. La plage dispose d'un terrain de beach-volley, de toilettes et de douches.
Le cours d'eau l'Uhabia peut être une source de dégradation de la qualité de l'eau.

The Beach of Bidart-Centre stands at the foot of a cliff. On the left, you can reach Uhabia's beach by walking. Bidart-Centre's beach is crowded by bathers during summer, and by surfers all along the year. Shower, toilets, and beach volley courts are available. The few parking places might keep you from going to this beach.
Uhabia river might be an explanation for a bad water quality.

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Water Quality

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Current Status
This status is based on the latest sample, taken on October 1st, 2018. Surfrider Foundation Europe updates the status of this beach as soon as test results become available. These results were posted to Swim Guide on October 1st, 2018 at 4:07 AM.

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Monitoring Frequency

Source Information

As part of the Watermen Testers program, Surfrider Foundation Europe volunteers monitor recreational marine and freshwater quality at several sites in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The sampling season goes throughout the year, on an irregular basis depending on availability of volunteers. That is why the monitoring frequency selected is "Other" for all the beaches in the region. Priority is given to places where Watermen Testers suspect a pollution. Before (from 2014 to 2017), samples were collected bi-monthly. According to the European Directive 2006/7/CE, water quality is based on 2 bacteriological parameters: E. coli and enterococcus. Threshold between average and poor water quality :
Freshwater :
Enterococcus 660 CFU/100mL
E. coli : 1800 CFU/100mL
Marine water:
Enteroccocus : 370 CFU/100mL
E. coli: 1000 CFU/100mL

A beach is marked green if the two results (Enterococcus and E. coli) are under European thresholds.
A beach is marked red if one of the two or the two results is/are above the European threshold.
A beach is marked grey when there are no current results or there is no available information.

Special status beaches:
Due to the high frequentation of beaches during the summer and the occurrence of storms, leading to wastewater treatment plant overflows, some beaches are exposed to short term pollutions.

Uhabia – Bidart: In case of heavy rains, a valve holds untreated water at Uhabia’s estuary, and releases it 500 meters away from the coast during the night.
Grande plage – Biarritz: Sewer overflows release untreated water directly on the beach.
La barre – Anglet: This beach in mainly polluted because of Adour’s estuary which is just above, especially during floods.

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