EPA Office of Water (OW): Beaches PRAWN Attribute Data
Description
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.
Resources
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National Extracts |
http://water.epa.gov/scitech/datait/tools/waters/data/downloads.cfm |
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The URL providing direct access to the downloadable dataset. |
https://water.epa.gov/scitech/datait/tools/waters/data/downloads.cfm |
Tags
- environment
- ecology
- water program
- recreation
- beach data
- united states
- beach locational data
- beaches
- beach act
- conservation
- nhd
- human
- waterbody
- water
- health
- beach