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Long Beach Scores Top Marks for Water Quality

Long Beach, CA – The City of Long Beach has received excellent  recreational water quality grades from Heal the Bay for 2021-2022, with  100% percent of its beaches receiving A or B grades for the dry summer  months, according to the Annual Beach Report Card that was released on  June 22, 2022. Long Beach has seen sustained improvements in water  quality over the past decade.

“We’ve worked hard to make our beaches cleaner and safer — and it’s  paid off with these high marks from Heal the Bay,” said Mayor Robert  Garcia.

City beaches received 11 A grades and four Bs for the dry summer  season, April through October. Alamitos Bay, located at Bayshore and the  Second Street Bridge, received an A+ grade. The State Health and Safety  Code, known as AB 411, requires testing of recreational waters during  this important time period when most people go to the beach and enjoy  the water. Long Beach also received A or B grades for five beaches  during the dry winter months.

The Beach Report Card was established 30 years ago to maintain a safe  beach environment for the public by providing reliable and  easy-to-understand analyses of beach water quality and advocating for  water quality policies and improvement projects. As part of the study,  water samples are retrieved from beaches and analyzed for bacteria and  other pollutants, then receive grades A to F based on the levels found  in the samples. The better the grade a beach receives, the lower the  risk of illness to ocean users.

Long Beach has approximately seven miles of public beach and bays,  typically attracting thousands of residents and visitors throughout the  year. In order to protect the safety of the public, residents and  visitors, water samples are collected three times a week and tested  routinely by the Health Department's Environmental Health Water Quality  Monitoring Program to monitor bacterial levels.

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