Sign up for beach alerts this summer
Water quality alerts for Adelaide’s metropolitan beaches have begun again with the start of Daylight Saving, with a new feature allowing beach users to choose to be notified by email or SMS.
The messages are designed to let people know when water quality is not suitable for activities like swimming and surfing.
While beach water quality is usually very good off the Adelaide coast, it can drop when heavy rain flushes high volumes of stormwater into the sea.
These increased flows can result in discoloured or murky water at beaches that are near the mouths of rivers and drains.
SA Health recommends that people avoid contact with this turbid water for 72 hours after the stormwater has stopped flowing.
In the past, beach water quality alerts were issued for the whole metropolitan coast, but at the beginning of 2017, the EPA introduced an option allowing people to sign up for alerts for specific beaches in response to community feedback.
Individual alerts are now issued for Grange, Henley, Hallett Cove, Christies Beach, Noarlunga or Moana.
Sign up for beach alerts and for up-to-date information on beach water quality.
