Please contact the Catawba Riverkeeper at if you have questions. As a general rule, if the water is clear, then E. coli levels can change at any time and increase after rain events. But even though its back open, because of COVID-19, there will be fewer people there. coli levels in the Catawba lakes are low, and the reservoirs are typically safe for swimming. Camp Thunderbird will have its very first campers since 2019 in about three weeks. This data does not guarantee the sampled area is safe for swimming at all times. This sample data provides a general guide to the health of the waterway and should only be used for informational purposes. Samples are collected on Wednesday or Thursday each week, and results are posted on Thursday or Friday. coli indicate a health risk for people swimming in the water. CRF utilizes the standardized EPA criteria of 235 E.coli/100 ml for collecting and analyzing water samples. Basic water chemistry (pH, DO, temp, conductivity) is monitored at some sites. Sampling season starts Memorial Day Weekend and ends Labor Day Weekend. Grey means there is no current water quality information, the beach is under construction, there has been an event that has rendered water quality information unreliable or unavailable.Ĭatawba Riverkeeper Foundation (CRF) staff, interns, and volunteers monitor water quality at sites in this region. Red means the water at the site has water quality issues or there is an emergency. This status does not indicate current water quality. This means that this site has been issued a Blue Flag status for the current swimming season.
We may manually set the status for a specific beach if we have concerns about the sampling protocol, if there is an emergency, if monitoring practices don't exist or have recently changed, or other reasons that render this site "special." Red means the beach failed water quality tests 40% of the time or more. Yellow means the beach passed water quality tests 60-95% of the time. Green means the beach passed water quality tests 95% of the time or more. This means that rather than displaying current data it displays the beach's average water quality for that year. When swimming season is over or when a beach's water quality data has not been updated frequently enough (weekly) it goes into historical status. Grey means water quality information for the beach is too old (more than 7 days old) to be considered current, or that info is unavailable, or unreliable. Red means the beach’s most recent test results failed to meet water quality standards. Green means the beach’s most recent test results met relevant water quality standards.
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