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In 2000, Congress passed the BEACH Act and provided funding to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to improve beach monitoring in coastal states. Maryland’s Beaches Program was established to protect the health of visitors to public bathing beaches. This program is administered by Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). Local health departments are responsible for monitoring and notifying the public about the health of Maryland’s beaches. Maryland’s beach season runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day. |
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In 2000, Congress passed the BEACH Act and provided funding to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to improve beach monitoring in coastal states. Maryland’s Beaches Program was established to protect the health of visitors to public bathing beaches. This program is administered by Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). Local health departments are responsible for monitoring and notifying the public about the health of Maryland’s beaches. Maryland’s beach season runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day. |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>In 2000, Congress passed the BEACH Act and provided funding to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to improve beach monitoring in coastal states. Maryland’s Beaches Program was established to protect the health of visitors to public bathing beaches. This program is administered by Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). Local health departments are responsible for monitoring and notifying the public about the health of Maryland’s beaches. Maryland’s beach season runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The Maryland Department of the Environment shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. These data and related graphics, as available for download from the MDE webpage, are not legal documents and are not to be used as such. MDE gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. The information contained in these data is dynamic and may change over time. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data appropriately and consistent within the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection, and computer processes over time. It is strongly recommended that these data be directly acquired from an MDE source and not indirectly through other sources, which may have altered the data in some way. It is standard for citation and legal purposes for the Maryland Department of the Environment be cited as a data source when products are developed from this dataset.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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Maryland's Healthy Beaches Alerts |
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