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    • Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification (BEACON) system

    Metadata Updated: February 10, 2026

    Beach Advisory and Closing Online Notification system (BEACON) is a colletion of state and local data reported to EPA about beach closings and advisories. BEACON is the public-facing query of the Program tracking, Beach Advisories, Water quality standards, and Nutrients database (PRAWN) which tracks beach closing and advisory information.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

    Downloads & Resources

    No file downloads have been provided. The publisher may provide downloads in the future or they may be available from their other links.

    References

    https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B020CFECD-E8C1-4FA7-ADC7-CDE9B40F2F2C%7D
    https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/rest/document?id=%7B020CFECD-E8C1-4FA7-ADC7-CDE9B40F2F2C%7D

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date January 30, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date February 10, 2026
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from EPA Non Geo Repository

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 30, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date February 10, 2026
    Publisher U.S. EPA Office of Water (OW) - Office of Science and Technology (OST)
    Maintainer
    Identifier 020CFECD-E8C1-4FA7-ADC7-CDE9B40F2F2C
    Data First Published 2014-01-01
    Data Last Modified 2013-11-12
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 020:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://edg.epa.gov/data/nongeo_data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id ff4ee3e1-78c0-429c-8f35-8d53592d7538
    Harvest Source Id 9c1c2b5b-7925-4ca2-a663-ca2131653db1
    Harvest Source Title EPA Non Geo Repository
    License https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.htm
    Old Spatial -180.0,18.0,-66.0,72.0
    Program Code 020:072
    Related Documents https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B020CFECD-E8C1-4FA7-ADC7-CDE9B40F2F2C%7D, https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/rest/document?id=%7B020CFECD-E8C1-4FA7-ADC7-CDE9B40F2F2C%7D
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8f700526a2e7cea15cbe747f87f5ca6ef506f1f49f35abf6bdd7ba6ae755ca46
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -180.0, 18.0, -180.0, 72.0, -66.0, 72.0, -66.0, 18.0, -180.0, 18.0}

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