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The decision whether or not to close a beach to swimmers is based on a judgement of what degree of pollution is acceptable.

Normally, the closure of a beach would only be considered by the Urban or Regional Council if a grade "4" occurred repeatedly, so that the average health risk over the bathing season exceeded 15 cases per 1,000 swimmers.

At present five gazetted beaches, namely Anglers', Approach, Castle Peak, Rocky Bay and Ting Kau, are closed to swimmers, while Old Cafeteria is re-opened.

The decision to open or close the beaches has been made by the Regional and Urban Councils on the basis of beach water quality monitoring data for 1995. The public are advised not to swim at the closed beaches.

The grades of the bacteriological water quality of various beaches in Hong Kong today are listed below:

Beach

Previous Grading

(as at 1.8.96)

Present Grading (as at 15.8.96)

Hong Kong South

Big Wave Bay (S)

2

3

Chung Hom Kok (S)

1

Deep Water Bay (S)

1

Hairpin (S)

2

Middle Bay (S)

2

NN

2

2

Repulse Bay (S) Shek O (S) South Bay (S) St Stephen's (S) Turtle Cove (S) Stanley Main (S)

Tuen Mun District

Golden Beach

Old Cafeteria New Cafeteria

Kadoorie (S) Butterfly (S)

1

1

N = N N N

2

3

1

1

2

2

2

-NN

1

2

2

NON en en

2

3

2

3

3

3

لیا تھا لیا لیا لیا

3

3

3

3

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