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What a fantastic summer for a beach vacation, thanks to some of the best grades ever since nonprofit Heal the Beach began monitoring water quality 26 years ago. That’s not to say things can’t change, but due to the low levels of rain and efforts by many agencies to clean up their shores, the water quality on 95% of California’s monitored beaches received\u00a0a grade of A or B for the 2015-2016 report. Water quality at 456 beaches along the California coast<\/a>\u00a0during the measuring period\u00a0found\u00a0weekly bacterial levels\u00a0low. If you are planning a beach vacation there are currently just a handful of spots where you may want to consider moving down or up shore a bit…<\/p>\n Cowell Beach, west of the wharf (Santa Cruz County) What a fantastic summer for a beach vacation, thanks to some of the best grades ever since nonprofit Heal the Beach began monitoring water quality 26 years ago. That’s not to say things can’t change, but due to the low levels of rain and efforts by many agencies to clean up their shores, the water […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Beach Bummers, \u00a0D or F\u00a0\u00a0grade<\/h2>\n
\nClam Beach, near Strawberry Creek (Humboldt County)
\nShoreline Beach Park at Shelter Island (San Diego County)
\nMonarch Beach, north at Salt Creek (Orange County)
\nSanta Monica Pier (Los Angeles County)
\nMarina del Rey \u2013 Mother’s Beach (Los Angeles County)
\nRedondo Municipal Pier (Los Angeles County)
\nCandlestick Point\/Sunnydale Cove (San Francisco County)
\nPillar Point, end of West Point Ave. (San Mateo County)
\nPismo Beach Pier, 40 feet south (San Luis Obispo County)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"