Water Quality Monitoring

IS YOUR WATER CLEAN?

At Miami Waterkeeper, ensuring the safety of your favorite waterways is our top priority. We conduct weekly water quality testing to provide you with up-to-date information on the bacteria levels in the areas you love to swim and play. You can easily access these results, along with the Department of Health's (DOH) Healthy Beaches testing data for Miami-Dade and Broward County, on our Instagram or using the free Swim Guide app or website.

Miami Waterkeeper samples all testing sites at least once a week. If a site has high bacteria levels, we will resample the site and post the results as soon as possible. 

EPA has set the following standards for water considered safe for swimming, which are used by DOH and Miami Waterkeeper:

• 0-70 CFU/MPN per 100 mL enterococci per sample: Safe for swimming
• 70+ CFU/MPN per 100 mL enterococci per sample: Not safe for swimming

Learn more about our water testing locations and what the results mean here. 

How do I find the latest water quality results? 

Stay updated with our latest water quality results by following us on Instagram. You can also access our data through the Swim Guide app, which you can download here, or view by visiting the Swim Guide website here.

Swim Guide will help you to identify at a glance which beaches are safe for swimming (Green) and which have current water quality problems (Red). Some sites are also in “special status” if pollution or safety events mean that you shouldn’t swim.   

  Red means the water at the site has water quality issues or there is an emergency.

 Green means the beach’s most recent test results met relevant water quality standards.

 Red means the beach’s most recent test results failed to meet water quality standards.

Thank you to these funders for supporting our water quality monitoring program: