Do Not Swim prohibition notice at Malahide Beach has been extended

Please be advised that the Do Not Swim prohibition notice at Malahide Beach has been extended due to a storm water overflow yesterday evening at Malahide WWTP, due to adverse weather conditions. 

Further sampling at Malahide will take place tomorrow as well as at Balbriggan both results due Monday 9th August 2021.

A prohibition notice was also issued for Front Strand Balbriggan today due to storm water overflow.

Malahide Beach remains open but beach users are asked to respect the ‘Do Not Swim’ notices as they have been put in place to ensure that the health of bathers is not compromised.

Members of the public can check for water quality at any of the monitored bathing waters in Ireland in advance by accessing the EPA website at www.beaches.ie or by checking the notice board at the entrance to each beach. 

To view  an explanation of the standards used for reporting results of bathing water (i.e. What are the standards used in bathing water) and the assessment of risk to bather health deemed to meet “Poor” standard (risk circa >10% of contracting gastro-intestinal illness) please got to  https://www.fingal.ie/bathing-water-quality-monitoring-faqs