Henderson Harbor Yacht Club Beach is a freshwater beach in Jefferson County, New York. Across 20 bacteria samples collected between 2022 and 2025 at nearby monitoring stations, it earns a Beach Safety Grade of B — Good.
About 5% of samples at Henderson Harbor Yacht Club Beach exceeded the EPA Beach Action Value of 235 CFU/100 mL for Escherichia coli — the threshold at which water managers typically post a swimming advisory. In practice that means the safe-swimming limit was sometimes crossed here over the monitored period. Bacteria samples rarely exceed the safe-swimming threshold.
Henderson Harbor Yacht Club Beach was not under a swimming advisory in the most recent EPA snapshot. Conditions can change quickly after heavy rain or high runoff, so it's still worth checking the current advisory the day you go.