Please note that this website contains only information about shoreline bacteria levels in San Francisco.
Beach Water Quality
Shoreline bacteria are routinely monitored at 14 stations around the perimeter of San Francisco where water contact recreation may occur. These include three stations within the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, two stations at Aquatic Park, two stations along Crissy Field Beach, three stations at Baker Beach, one at China Beach, and three stations along Ocean Beach. The beach monitoring program is a cooperative effort between the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Samples are collected weekly year round. Additional monitoring is conducted whenever a treated discharge from the City’s Combined sewer system occurs that affects a monitored beach. READ MORE about the combined sewer system and a detailed explanation of the Beach Monitoring Program.
Click on Sampling Points for Bacteria Water Quality
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Beach Open
Beach Posted
Not Sampled
Not Routinely Sampled
Combined Sewer Discharge
(Call 1-877-SFBEACH or
1-877-732-3224 for details)
- What is a combined
sewer discharge? - Read about it here.