Central Coast Home & Lifestyle Summer 2023

94% of the Central Coast’s Ocean beaches and Ocean Baths rated as ‘Good or Very Good’. C ouncil monitors 32 recreational sites across the Coast - 15 Ocean Beaches, 3 Ocean Baths, 4 Coastal Lagoons and 10 estuary sites (where river meets sea). Notably Toowoon Bay’s grading returned to Good an improvement on the 2021-2022 results, Terrigal Beach has been influenced by La Nina, again being graded as Poor in 2022–2023. Despite the Poor grade, water quality at this site this year was mostly suitable for swimming with 93% of samples within the safe swimming guidelines. Beach grades are a long-term assessment of water quality based on the last 100 samples taken, in this case over the last 4 years – which means the La Nina conditions are also included in the assessment and continue to influence the result. Council used the findings from the investigation to detect and resolve water quality issues in the catchment. In 2019, Council instigated a widespread audit of the sewer and stormwater network. This involved extensive in field and laboratory analysis to determine the pollution source, CCTV inspection of over 50 km of sewer pipes in the Terrigal beach and Lagoon catchments and the relining and upgrading of over 32 km of pipes, and smoke and dye testing to identify illegal connections. The 2022-23 has again seen poor results at all Central Coast estuary sites. This is reflective of the nature of these waterways which flush very slowly, and which have greater impact from stormwater networks. Council is undertaking ongoing studies to determine the causes of these poorer results and remedial work when infrastructure failure is detected. Recent DNA studies on microbial sources has detected human, canine, and avian sources to microbial contamination. Avoid swimming at ocean beaches for 24 hours after rain and 72 hours at estuary sites. View the State of the Beaches report and check Beachwatch daily forecast for reliable information on water quality visit: www.beachwatch.nsw.gov.au

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