CARICOOS RELEASES A NEW VERSION OF THE BEACH WATER QUALITY PRODUCT

CARICOOS Beach Water Quality product now includes an interactive tool to assess historical data at each sampling site. The beach water quality map serves results of the latest Enterococci samples collected by the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board, Surfrider Foundation and Blue Flag. The product also includes experimental nowcasts providing probability of EPA threshold exceedances for 30+ beaches around Puerto Rico. Latest samples will continue to be provided in the Pa’ la Playa Beach App along with a beach water quality rating spanning the last three months of samples. A new effort to incorporate US Virgin Islands beach pathogen data is underway