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 Tuesday and results are posted to the Florida Healthy beaches website on Thursday. Monroe 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. This status does not indicate current water quality. This means that this site has been issued a Blue Flag status for the current swimming season. 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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