Heal the Bay’s annual “Beach Report Card,” released a couple of weeks ago, assigned letter grades to hundreds of beaches across the West Coast.
The report card has been an annual release for the past 33 years and advises tourists and residents on which beaches to visit and which ones to avoid.
According to the Beach Report Card, beach rankings are a result of compiling water quality data into easy-to-read grades. The “Beach Report Card Basics” section includes information about how the water is tested.
It states, “Water samples are analyzed for three fecal indicator bacteria (FIB): total coliform, fecal coliform (E. coli), and Enterococcus species.”…