State Water Board previews redesigned Safe2Swim map and BeachWatch data changes

Nov 21, 2025

State Water Board staff showed a prototype of Safe2Swim that consolidates BeachWatch, SEED/CDN and other monitoring sources into a dashboard with site safety statuses, controlled vocabularies, new bulk-upload fields and server-side validation; staff aim for testing in November–December and a public go-live in late winter or early spring.

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Michelle Tang, research data specialist in the State Water Board’s Office of Information Management and Analysis, demonstrated a prototype of a redesigned Safe2Swim public map aimed at making beach bacteria monitoring data easier to find and interpret.

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