What are the major components of the BEACH Program?
The BEACH Program will focus on the following five areas to meet the program goals of improving public health and environmental protection programs for beach goers and providing the public with information about the quality of their beach water: Strengthening beach standards and testing. EPA is encouraging states and tribes to adopt updated water quality criteria for E. coli and/or enterococcus bacteria into their water quality standards. The Agency is also working with states, tribes, and local governments to strengthen local beach health monitoring efforts and procedures to achieve these standards by providing technical guidance and training on new test methods and predictive models. You can view EPA’s summary report of state bacterial water quality standards for recreational waters. Providing faster laboratory test methods. EPA has developed and is making available a new laboratory test method for enterococcus bacteria, indicator organisms for fecal contamination.
The BEACH Program will focus on the following five areas to meet the program goals of improving public health and environmental protection programs for beach goers and providing the public with information about the quality of their beach water: Strengthening beach standards and testing. EPA is encouraging states and tribes to adopt updated water quality criteria for E. coli and/or enterococcus bacteria into their water quality standards. The Agency is also working with states, tribes, and local governments to strengthen local beach health monitoring efforts and procedures to achieve these standards by providing technical guidance and training on new test methods and predictive models. You can view EPA’s summary report of state bacterial water quality standards for recreational waters. Providing faster laboratory test methods. EPA has developed and is making available a new laboratory test method for enterococcus bacteria, indicator organisms for fecal contamination. This improved test
