851571e7-85b2-48dd-bf38-f0659a9f6b46 urn:uuid English UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2017-02-06T05:32:44 creation ISO 19115 2016 Water Quality Watch sampling data - Lake Macquarie City Council 851571e7-85b2-48dd-bf38-f0659a9f6b46 Popular lake and beach swimming spots are tested weekly from November through to April as part of Council’s recreational water quality monitoring program. This program is being run in partnership with the Office of Environment and Heritage’s (OEH) Beachwatch program. Council samples one beach and 13 lake sites and Hunter Water sample another five beach sites for Enterococci bacteria. The presence of Enterococci indicates that water may be polluted with stormwater or sewage, and Enterococci levels above 100 organisms/100mL indicate that water may be unsuitable for swimming. NSW82938: Lake Macquarie 151.6012 151.6012 -33.0652 -33.0652 beach council enterococci lake lake macquarie city council lakemac lmcc local government nsw recreation swimming water quality Water Quality Watch sampling data (CSV) - Lake Macquarie City Council documentDigital Popular lake and beach swimming spots are tested weekly from November through to April as part of Council’s recreational water quality monitoring program. This program is being run in partnership with the Office of Environment and Heritage’s (OEH) Beachwatch program. Council samples one beach and 13 lake sites and Hunter Water sample another five beach sites for Enterococci bacteria. The presence of Enterococci indicates that water may be polluted with stormwater or sewage, and Enterococci levels above 100 organisms/100mL indicate that water may be unsuitable for swimming. __Example use case:__ We are using this data on our own website to show a star rating for each site, and a clickable customised Google Map of all the sites - https://www.lakemac.com.au/pagewater.aspx?pid=797&vid=27 CSV