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    Beach Water Quality - Automated Sensors

    Metadata Updated: September 20, 2025

    The Chicago Park District maintains sensors in the water at beaches along Chicago's Lake Michigan lakefront. These sensors generally capture the indicated measurements hourly while the sensors are in operation during the summer. During other seasons and at some other times, information from the sensors may not be available. See https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/k7hf-8y75 for a dataset with land-based weather measurements at selected beaches. The sensor locations are listed at https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/g3ip-u8rb.

    Please note that sensor locations change with the Park District’s operational needs, primarily related to water quality. For more information on beach operations, please see https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/beaches.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 20, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Chicago JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 20, 2025
    Publisher data.cityofchicago.org
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cityofchicago.org/api/views/qmqz-2xku
    Data First Published 2015-06-04
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-20
    Category Parks & Recreation
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofchicago.org/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id c2844242-dde7-46a6-8592-937afc88f447
    Harvest Source Id 7590e386-229e-453a-8e53-6f18e200e421
    Harvest Source Title Chicago JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/qmqz-2xku
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash cca0726d43989279aef840508f7f530abbdb9fe3cb3c2753f5335b9dbd3450ac
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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