Charleston Waterkeeper Launches Swim Guide App
Today marks the first full day of summer. Thanks to our Swim Guide App finding a local beach where the water is clean enough for swimming, surfing, and other water-related activities is a lot easier.
The free smartphone app provides up-to-date water quality information at 27 points along the five local beaches in the Charleston area: Isle of Palms, Sullivan’s Island, Folly Beach, Kiawah Island, and Seabrook Island.
Access to the most up-to-date water quality data will help protect the public’s health and increase awareness about pollution issues threatening our right to swimmable water. Swim Guide utilizes monthly water quality data gathered by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) to determine whether the water at local beaches is safe for swimming.
The Swim Guide App also allows users to report pollution at local beaches, get directions, view photos, and learn which beaches are best for which types of activities like surfing or dog-walking. Users can also easily share information on social networks.
But if you’re like us, you don’t use our waterways only at the beach. Unfortunately, up-to-date water quality information for our small tidal creeks and rivers is not readily available. [Learn More] Help Charleston Waterkeeper change that. Show us where you swim, standup paddleboard, kayak, and sail in our tidal creeks and rivers. We’ll test the most popular spots and publish the results for you.
Click [here], drop a point on the Google Map, and show us were you get in the water.
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The Swim Guide app is available from the Apple App Store, for Android from Google Play, or online at [Swim Guide]. Charleston Waterkeeper is launching Swim Guide in partnership with the Waterkeeper Alliance, a network of nearly 200 other Waterkeeper organizations fighting for clean water and strong communities worldwide.
