The Old Roosevelt Bridge (also called the St. The bacteria is most dangerous when ingested in raw seafood but recent deaths are attributed to individuals who have waded in water with broken skin. Concentrations of the bacteria are higher in the mouths of rivers near oceans. This bacteria can be lethal, especially when contracted by individuals with compromised immune systems. Please note: Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, also called flesh eating disease, is a naturally occurring bacteria in some of Florida's waters.
These conservative advisories better inform vulnerable people (children, elderly, and the immunocompromised) who have elevated health risks due to water quality at the beach.Ī beach is marked Grey when no current or reliable monitoring information is available. This means the SSM test results show Enterococci counts exceeds the BAV of 70 cfu/100ml. Swim Guide marks a beach Red when it has a Poor standing. On Swim Guide a beach is marked Green when it has a Good or Moderate standing meaning the SSM test results show Enterococci counts between 0- 70 cfu (colony forming units) / 100ml. The Healthy Beaches program no longer uses geometric means to represent recreational water quality data. If the sample result is above the indicated value, the beach is resampled and tested the following day or a beach advisory is issued with the first test result. A Single Sample Maximum (SSM) at 70 CFU per 100 ml and a BAV are functionally the same. The 2012 Recreational Water Quality Criteria recommends using 70 CFU per 100 mL as the Beach Action Value (BAV) to guide public health advisories. Poor = 71 or greater Enterococci / 100 mL of marine water. Moderate = 36-70 Enterococci / 100 mL of marine water, and Good = 0-35 Enterococci / 100 mL of marine water The Florida Healthy Beaches Program Categories are: Swim Guide checks for the latest information daily, Monday - Friday. Samples are collected year round, however the peak season is from March to November. Monitoring results are collected bi-weekly on Monday and results are posted to the Florida Healthy beaches website on Wednesday. Martin County beaches are monitored by the Florida Healthy Beaches Program. They reflect the most current recommendations and water quality grant requirements in the 2012 Recreational Water Quality Criteria from the US Environmental Protection Agency. The Florida Department of Health (DOH) adopted new water quality criteria January 2016 for the Healthy Beaches program. 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. Red means the water at the site has water quality issues or there is an emergency. Green means the beach has historically excellent or pristine water quality, but there is no current data. We may manually set the status for a specific beach if we have concerns about the sampling protocol, if there is an emergency, if monitoring practices don't exist or have recently changed, or other reasons that render this site "special." Red means the beach failed water quality tests 40% of the time or more. Yellow means the beach passed water quality tests 60-95% of the time. Green means the beach passed water quality tests 95% of the time or more. This means that rather than displaying current data it displays the beach's average water quality for that year. When swimming season is over or when a beach's water quality data has not been updated frequently enough (weekly) it goes into historical status. 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. Red means the beach’s most recent test results failed to meet water quality standards. Green means the beach’s most recent test results met relevant water quality standards.
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