Recreational water quality at ACT lakes and rivers
liveACT Health samples the water at the lakes and rivers where people swim in the ACT each week of the swimming season, from about October to April, and tests it for intestinal enterococci, a sign of faecal contamination, and for blue-green algae.
The portal holds one table per season. The 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons are published under CC BY 4.0 and are here. The tables for later seasons state no licence on the portal and are not republished.
Health Protection Service, ACT Health Directorate releases these 2 tables as one dataset on its portal, so every table here shares the version date 2020-03-25. Each table has its own page with a format picker, a field list, a sample record and its version history.
Also called: ACT Recreational Lakes and Rivers Compliance 2018-19, ACT Recreational Lakes and Rivers Compliance 2019-20, Canberra swimming water quality 2018-19, Canberra swimming water quality 2019-20, Murrumbidgee River swimming water quality 2018-19, Murrumbidgee River swimming water quality 2019-20.
| Table | Download latest | Rows | Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recreational lakes and rivers water quality, ACT, 2019-20 seasonWeekly intestinal enterococci results at the ACT's recreational swimming sites in the 2019-20 season, one row per site and sample with the result and whether it met the guideline. About 1,700 rows. | 1,734 | 13 | |
| Recreational lakes and rivers water quality, ACT, 2018-19 seasonWeekly intestinal enterococci results at the ACT's recreational swimming sites in the 2018-19 season, one row per site and sample with the result and whether it met the guideline. About 1,000 rows. | 986 | 11 |
What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version so the change can be checked.