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Water Quality

There are nine designated beaches under the Quality of Bathing Waters Regulations, 1992 and regular monitoring is carried out on these beaches during the summer months as required by the regulations.

Another three beaches are monitored on a less regular basis.

The latest water quality results can be downloaded below.

  

Identification of Bathing Waters 2012

IDENTIFICATION OF BATHING WATERS 2012

15th August 2011

 

PUBLIC NOTICE:

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF ‘BATHING WATERS’ UNDER THE BATHING WATERS DIRECTIVE 2006/7/EC of 15 February 2006 and

THE BATHING WATER QUALITY REGULATIONS S.I 79 of 2008.

 

Fingal County Council, along with all 34 City and County Councils, is inviting public participation in the identification of Bathing Waters under the Bathing Waters Directive and the Bathing Water Quality Regulations 2008 (SI No 79 of 2008).

The Directive requires that water quality at all designated bathing waters meet stringent microbiological standards in order to protect the health of people who choose to bathe there. The bathing waters have to be identified and designated on an annual basis.

 The new Directive and Regulations require public participation in the identification process. This consultation process provides the public with an opportunity to:

  • Comment on existing designated bathing waters with a view to the continuation of their designation, 
  • Comment on other bathing waters not currently designated but which might be considered for designation.

 Information on existing designated bathing waters in Fingal is provided below.  National designated bathing waters information (including Fingal) is available on the Bathing Water website and also on the Beach Awards website.

In making your submission in relation to the identification of bathing water sites, it might be helpful to consider the following factors, in addition to numbers using the site: 

Past trends; 

Infrastructure or facilities provided (including accessibility): 

–         Access for emergency services vehicles and rescue craft,

–         Safe access for members of public,

–         Local infrastructure capacity (road capacity, public transport, parking, toilets

Safety considerations:

–         Lifeguard provision,

–         Ground stability,

–         Presence of currents/potentially dangerous rocks;

–         Tidal characteristics;

Habitat protection,

Privacy of bathers and local residents,

Water quality.

 

Accordingly, Fingal County Council invites comments from interested parties in relation to the identification of Bathing Waters for 2012. Comments can be submitted as follows:


By post to:

Bathing Waters,

Environment, Enterprise & Business Department

Fingal County Council

P.O. Box 174

County Hall,

Swords,

Co. Dublin

Or by e-mail: bathingwaters@fingalcoco.ie

 

The closing date for receipt of submissions is 15th. September, 2011.

 


Further Information and Useful Links

 

List of designated bathing areas in Fingal County for bathing season 2011:

  1. Balbriggan, Front Beach
  2. Skerries, South Beach
  3. Loughshinny Beach
  4. Rush, South Beach
  5. Donabate, Balcarrick Beach
  6. Portrane, the Brook Beach
  7. Malahide Beach
  8. Portmarnock, Velvet Strand Beach
  9. Sutton, Burrow Beach

 


For more information on bathing water quality in Ireland click here - http://www.environ.ie/en/Environment/Water/WaterQuality/BathingWaters/


For information on existing designated bathing waters go to:

http://www.bathingwater.ie/epa/home.htm

An Taisce’s beach awards site provides some useful information, and encourages you to complete a beach survey. http://www.beachawards.ie/