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Heal the Bay previews 2026 beach report card, flags Santa Monica Pier as recurring hotspot
Summary
Heal the Bay will release its 2026 Beach Report Card on May 20, grading 490 California beaches for April 2025–March 2026: 91% of beaches earned A/B in summer dry season, 81% in winter dry, and 61% in wet weather; Santa Monica Pier showed high, rising bacteria trends prompting targeted temporal, spatial and DNA source-tracking studies.
Heal the Bay will publish its 2026 annual Beach Report Card on May 20, providing statewide, regional and county-level grades based on BeachWatch data for the reporting year April 1, 2025–March 31, 2026.
Naomi Maurice, a water-quality data analyst at Heal the Bay, told the Coastal Beach Water Quality Worker Meeting that the nonprofit converts bacterial monitoring data into A–F grades for sites up and down the West Coast. "We graded 490 beaches," Maurice said, previewing statewide results: "91% of which received safe-to-swim A and B grades during the summer dry period" and 81% in the…
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