Many Southern California beaches get top grades, report says

Lance Johnson, visiting from Albuquerque, NM., swings his niece Elsa Schulte,3, of Redondo Beach, just south of the Redondo Beach Pier. The beach got an F for the winter months and a C during summer in Heal the Bay’s annual report card. (Jay L. Continue reading

Poor water quality grades continue at Cowell, Capitola beaches

SANTA CRUZ — Most of the county’s beaches maintained good water quality throughout the summer, but problem beaches, Cowell and Capitola, had unsafe levels of bacterial counts, according to the latest Beach Report Card compiled by nonprofit Heal the Bay. The annual End of Summer report card gives letter grades to more than 400 beaches along California’s coast Continue reading

Beaches: Here Are LA County's 3 Grossest Beaches For Water Quality

Heal the Bay’s End of Summer Beach Report Card is out for 2012 and the good news: LA’s beaches are mostly un-gross! The bad news: a few are still kind of gross (Catalina, we’re side-eyeing you). Continue reading

SD, state beaches fare well during summer tests

Water quality at San Diego County beaches was excellent again over the summer and contributed to one of the cleanest peak-use seasons on record along the states coastline, according to a report card issued Tuesday by Heal the Bay. Continue reading

Four Malibu beaches make Beach Bummer list

According to Heal the Bay, four of Californias most polluted beaches in 2011-12 are in Malibu. Two other local received perfect grades. By Carly Erickson / Assistant Editor Environmental group Heal the Bay released its 22nd Annual Beach Report Card last Thursday, and it was not kind to Malibu Continue reading