Swim Guide - Tuckasegee River Water Quality Testing Locations

Swim Guide App – Your Guide to Current Water Quality Across the USA!

WATR is proud to be the water quality monitoring partner for the Swim Guide – an important app that reports weekly water quality of beaches, rivers, and other swimming locations across the USA. WATR currently monitors weekly 13 sites in the Tuckasegee River watershed. The watershed includes all tributaries coming into the Tuckasegee River.

The Swim Guide monitors fecal ecoliform and sediment for recreational areas on the Tuckasegee River and in the Tuckasegee watershed. We are testing for unhealthy animal waste, sewage, and sediment levels in the Tuckasegee River watershed. It’s called the Swim Guide because it monitors whether it is ok to swim in the water! If the water tests unhealthy to swim in – make different plans for that day. Rain events create runoff that often cause unhealthy test results – and if the river is generally healthy – the test results will revert to acceptable levels after the runoff subsides.

Are you traveling other places? This Swim Guide started with beaches. Yes, you can get water quality test results for your favorite beaches as well.

Red – means the beach’s most recent test results failed to meet water quality standards. Red means the beach failed water quality tests 40% of the time or more.

Yellow – means the beach passed water quality tests 60-95% of the time.

Green – means the beach’s most recent test results met relevant water quality standards. Green means the beach passed water quality tests 95% of the time or more.