Huron County Health Unit, Beach Testing 2000

Historically some of the sampling sites are more highly affected by rain and wave action. These beaches are shown in blue and are tested every Monday. Beaches that are less affected by rain are tested every 2nd or 3rd Monday. Those beaches with high results are re-tested on Thursday. The results below are shown as a geometric mean of the 5 samples taken on the day indicated. A geometric mean of 100 or less is considered acceptable according to the Province of Ontario standards. Beaches where the geometric mean is greater than 200 for 3 consecutive sampling events are posted with a red sign. The result number indicates the amount of E.coli bacteria/100 mL of water.

Beach Count/Result                    
Location  7/10/00 7/13/00 7/17/00 7/20/00 7/24/00 7/31/00 8/8/00 8/14/00 8/21/00 8/28/00 8/31/00
    7/10/00                  
Amberley 65   19   11 102 173 197 98 468 150
Ashfield Twp. Park 24   152   22 390 140 95 448 830 516
Bayfield Main 81   295 49 15   92 53 16 15  
Bayfield South 175   209 47 11   91 27 16 12  
Black's Point 848   231   175 533 142 208 68 126  
Bluevale Dam 128   1284   39 372 324 118 169 135  
Bogies Beach     18     10   24   10  
Brussels Dam       267   1064 101 126   236  
Camp Kintail         62 93 11 28 10 344 45
Camp Wyoka   16       11     10    
Driftwood Camp South     109     92   76   14  
Driftwood North   17       10     10    
Exeter Dam           940 100   78 78  
Family Paradise Camp   47       119 119   10    
Falls Resere Conservation 3150   555   10 192 118 87 85 77  
Goderich Main Beach 129   82   15 58 94 60 89 68  
Goderich St. Christopher's 277   56   12 36 50 98 13 38  
The Cove in Goderich 938   95 19 36 65 20 13 34    
Gorrie Dam       137 228 447   46 52    
Hay Twp. Park 600 48       48 56 149 10 24  
Kitchigami Camp   16       218 54   12    
Paul Bunyan     287   10 241 133 76 11 19  
Houston Heights 689 236 236     163 70 69 10 67  
Pine Echo   16       14   14 10    
Pine Lake       10   10     10    
Port Albert 667   633   33 293 191 176 22 92  
Port Blake 1255   128   16   57 38 10 70  
Morrison Dam           588 31   11    
Ron's Camp   24       32     11    
Sunset Beach 1995   1995   10   25   10 10  
St. Joseph's 925   105   14 144 144 64 13 7  
Wawanosh Cons. Area 48   48   18 193          
Wingham Dam       163   209 119 125   138  
Wroxeter Dam       245   24   13   25  

ACLA thanks HCHU for making this data available.