The Cooperative Coastal Monitoring Program (CCMP) is a joint effort between the NJ Department of Environmental Protection and the Cape May County Health Department. During the bathing beach season, 61 ocean stations and 8 bay stations are monitored on a weekly basis for enterococcus. Samples are analyzed by the CMCHD laboratory using the Membrane Filtration method. If a sample indicates high bacterial counts, confirmatory resampling is conducted. If the counts are still above  the bathing beach standard, (104 enterococci per 100 ml of sample), the beach is closed to swimming. Many of the elevated bacteria levels and subsequent beach closure occur after rainfall events. It should be noted that it is the long-standing policy of the Cape May County Health Department of "No Swimming" in non-designated/unprotected waters.

Click the Map below for ocean water testing results.  Updated information regarding any beach closures can be obtained by calling the Health Department Hotline at 609-463-6581 or 609-465-2422.