Problem – Currently, swim advisories or closings are issued by beach managers based on standards for concentrations of bacterial indicators such as Escherichia coli (E. coli). Standard culture methods for these bacteria take at least 18-24 hours before results are available. At most Great Lakes beaches, the beach is posted with an advisory or closing or is determined to be acceptable for swimming on the basis of the previous day’s E. coli concentration. Sanitary conditions may change overnight and even throughout the day (Boehm and others, 2002) making decisions made from previous days information incorrect. Because of this time-lag issue, water-resource managers are seeking solutions that provide near real-time...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Contaminants, Microbial,
Contaminants, Microbial,
Contaminants, Natural,
Contaminants, Natural,
Contaminants, Organic, All tags...
Contaminants, Organic,
Contaminants, microbial,
Contaminants, natural,
Contaminants, organic,
Cooperative Water Program,
Geospatial Applications,
Geospatial Applications,
Great Lakes,
Human Health Activities Program,
Information Visualization,
Information Visualization,
Information Visualization,
Mapping Application Development,
Mapping Application Development,
Mapping Applications Development,
Micropollutants,
Micropollutants,
Micropollutants,
New York,
Surface-Water Quality Monitoring,
Surface-Water Quality Monitoring,
Surface-Water-Quality Monitoring,
USGS New York Water Science Center,
WSC,
Water Quality,
Water Quality,
e coli, Fewer tags
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