Data provided by Joseph F Corcoran
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification (BEACON) system to meet the Agency’s requirement to provide to the public a database of pollution occurrences for coastal recreation waters. EPA’s response to this requirement, BEACON, contains state-reported beach monitoring and notification data. EPA recently updated BEACON to include several enhancements and has named the new system BEACON 2.0.
The tool is located here: https://watersgeo.epa.gov/beacon2/Beacon.html
To see Cape Charles, zoom the map into Virginia, or click on our state. A message will appear to ‘Zoom to State’. Click on the button to zoom in. Then click on Northampton, and the same message will ask ‘Zoom to County’. Once zoomed in, scroll to Cape Charles.
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