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EPA Office of Water (OW): Beaches NHDPlus Indexed Dataset

Published by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Catalog Last Checked: May 06, 2026 at 12:49 AM | Dataset Last Updated: June 24, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Program focuses on the following five areas to meet the goals of improving public health and environmental protection for beach goers and providing the public with information about the quality of their beach water: strengthening beach standards and testing, providing faster laboratory test methods-predicting pollution, investing in health and methods research, informing the public. Under the BEACH Act Grant Program states (including tribes and territories) are required to submit their beach monitoring (water quality), notification (advisory and closing), and beach location data to EPA.

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