- Home
- Departments
- Municipal Licenses & Inspection
- Health Division
- Bathing Beach Water Test Results
- 2015 Bathing Beach Water Test Results
2015 Bathing Beach Water Test Results
The Braintree Health Department considers an individual bathing beach water sample with an enterococci count less than 104 acceptable for bathing/swimming.
Counts greater than 104 indicate the water is unacceptable for swimming/bathing and the beach will be posted as such. A 5-sample Enterococci Geometric Mean value greater than 35 also indicates the water is unacceptable for swimming/bathing.
N/A means not available.
*Rain event occurred within 24 hours of sample collection
Smith Beach
Sample Date | Enterococci Count |
5- Sample Geomean |
Acceptable For Bathing? |
---|---|---|---|
6/17/15 | 10 | N/A | YES |
6/23/15 | 75 | N/A | YES |
6/30/15 | 171 | N/A | NO |
7/7/15 | 10 | N/A | YES |
7/14/15 | 41 | 35.01 | YES |
7/21/15 | 538 | 77.68 | NO |
7/23/15 | 20 | 59.64 | NO |
7/27/15 | 10 | 33.80 | YES |
7/28/15 | 10 | 33.80 | YES |
8/5/15 | 10* | 25.49 | YES |
8/11/15 | 10 | 11.49 | YES |
8/18/15 | 10 | 11.49 | YES |
8/27/15 | 20 | 11.49 | YES |
9/1/15 | 10 | 11.49 | YES |
Sunset Lake
Sample Date | E. Coli
Count |
5-Sample Geomean |
Acceptable For Bathing? |
---|---|---|---|
6/17/15 | 5 | N/A | YES |
6/23/15 | <5 | N/A | YES |
6/30/15 | <5 | N/A | YES |
7/7/15 | 164 | N/A | YES |
7/14/15 | 720 | 27.15 | NO |
7/16/15 | 32 | 39.36 | YES |
7/21/15 | 8 | 43.24 | YES |
7/28/15 | 5 | 43.24 | YES |
8/5/15 | 40 | 32.61 | YES |
8/11/15 | 44 | 18.64 | YES |
8/18/15 | 168 | 25.98 | YES |
8/25/15 | 28 | 33.37 | YES |
9/1/15 | 100 | 60.76 | YES |