Durban Beach Water Quality, E.coli CFU/100ml, Jan2022-Mar2025

Created	February 13, 2025
Credit	Ethekwini Beach Water Quality and eThekwini Metro Municipality
Category	Services
Description	Results of fortnightly water samples take at 51 Durban beaches showing E.coli levels in colony-forming units per 100ml (CFU/100ml). This data for 2022 and 2024 was obtained via public access to information requests from eThekwini metro municipality. The 2023 data was manually collected from beachwater.durban.gov.za. This dataset covers January 2022 to March 2025.
Data rows	4484
Headers	date beach quality_category E.coli test (cfu/100ml)

Data

date	beach	quality_category	E.coli test (cfu/100ml)
2022/01/18	Addington	Acceptable	238
2022/02/14	Addington	Ideal	20
2022/03/07	Addington	Acceptable	190
2022/03/07	Addington	Acceptable	160
2022/03/22	Addington	Ideal	120
2022/04/06	Addington	Poor	>800
2022/04/19	Addington	Ideal	20
2022/05/06	Addington	Acceptable	400
2022/05/16	Addington	Poor	6300
2022/06/06	Addington	Poor	1400