In the summer months it is staffed by lifeguards of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD).

[4] In November 1994, the Tuen Mun District Board made a request to open the beach for swimming and leisure.

[5] From December 2001 to August 2002, the then-Civil Engineering Department (CED) undertook dredging and sand-filling works at a cost of $1.9 million.

In 1999, a longer submarine outfall came into operation at the Pillar Point Sewage Treatment Works, directing effluent farther away from the beaches.

[9] Castle Peak had the highest mean E. coli levels of all 41 beaches monitored by the Environmental Protection Department during the 2019 bathing season.