Is the Riviera, Breton or Corsican beach where you have chosen to put your bags for the holidays the most recommended? To find out, the Ministry of Health analyzed the water quality of 2,047 French beaches between 2013 and 2016. The results were then compared to European directives and a menu giving access to all this information is now available online. To facilitate reading, the site Franceinfo compiled data from the Ministry of Health in a search engine.
A good overall level
Results ? The water quality of 15 French beaches is considered “insufficient”. Located in Charente-Maritime, Finistère, Manche, Pas-de-Calais, Somme, Mayotte, Guadeloupe and Guyana, they obtained the lowest rating since 2013. The control of The objective of the water quality produced by the regional health agencies (ARS) is to detect any malfunctions linked to wastewater treatment, the discharge of contaminated rainwater, but also to detect germs that are witnesses of the faecal contamination such as Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci.
Not to panic, however, because the water quality of the vast majority of the French coast is considered “good”! Better yet: there are many beaches where the water quality has been rated as “excellent”. Some of them, such as the Côte des Basques in Biarritz, Palombaggia in Porto-Vecchio, the Sillon in Saint-Malo or even the Escalet in Ramatuelle, appear in ranking of the 10 most beautiful beaches in France produced by Tripadvisor!
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