Water at Metro beaches unfit for swimming for 50 days last year
As the weather improves and beach season approaches in Metro Vancouver, a new report shows the region’s beaches were closed to swimming due to high E. coli levels for about 50 days last year — the most since 2014.
Metro’s focus is on areas where the public engages in activities such as swimming, windsurfing and water skiing, which involve putting all or most of your body in the water. It also monitors False Creek, even though it is not considered a swimming or bathing area. Health Canada’s guidelines say that E. coli levels in swimming areas should not exceed a geometric mean of 200 E. coli bacteria per 100 millilitres of water. In areas like False Creek, where substantial contact with water is rare, the guideline is 1,000 bacteria per 100 mL.
Barnet Marine Park in Burnaby had the highest number of advisory days in 2018, with 21. English Bay, Kitsilano Beach, Sunset Beach, Whytecliff Park, Sandy Cove, Ambleside, Kitsilano Point and Jericho Beach each had advisories for between two and seven days. Metro also checks with municipalities to see if their stormwater systems could have caused problems. Sewer system overflows caused by heavy rain, in combination with discharge from boats in the False Creek area, could have helped boost counts at Sunset Beach, but nowhere else.
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