Heal the Bay Beach Report Card
For more than 30 years, Heal the Bay has assigned annual “A-to-F” letter grades for 700 beaches from Washington State to Tijuana, Mexico, including 500 California beaches in the 2024-2025 report, based on levels of fecal-indicator bacterial pollution in the ocean measured by County health agencies. The public can check out the updated water quality of their local ocean beaches at beachreportcard.org or by downloading the app on their smartphone.
NowCast 2024-2025 Predictive Modeling Project
The County of Orange is currently participating in the NowCast project in collaboration with Heal the Bay and Stanford University. The project is operating at multiple beach locations within Southern California during 2024-2025. The NowCast system uses computer models and environmental data to predict daily bacteriological water quality, much like a daily weather forecast. NowCast predictions will be updated daily during the study period. Click here to learn more about NowCast.
Click here for NowCast predictions
NowCast is proposing to predict the water quality at the following Orange County beaches in 2025:
- Newport Beach 38th St. (9S)
- Newport Beach 52nd St. (6S)