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Karen,
A very good resource is EPA/821/R-97/004 Improved Enumeration
Methods for Recreational Water Quality Indicators: Enterococci and Escherichia
coli. It can be found at http://www.epa.gov/nerlcwww/RecManv.pdf
Janet Vail
Janet Vail, Ph.D.
Annis Water Resources Institute Grand Valley State University 740 W. Shoreline Drive Muskegon, MI 49441 (616) 895-3048 FAX (616) 895-3864 >>> "Terbush, Karen (ALB)" <Karen.Terbush@oprhp.state.ny.us> 07/29/02 11:06AM >>> Hello, I am from New York State Parks and Recreation. We operate 62 public beaches all over New York State. Some of them are on the great lakes, some on the Atlantic Ocean and most on freshwater inland lakes. For the past couple of years we have been trying to provide guidance to our parks regarding beach monitoring so that monitoring procedures are uniform all over the state. In New York state our bathing beach Standards are still for Total and Fecal Coliform. However, based on EPA's recommendations, we have asked all of our beaches this year to also monitor for enterococcus or E. coli. The problem is this: Many of the labs have not even heard of enterococcus and don't know what methods to use. For E. coli, many are unfamiliar with techniques to enumerate the organisms. I have provided some of the labs with the procedures recommended by EPA but some have run into problems obtaining the reagents needed for these tests. When I attended the Great Lakes Beach Conference in 2000, it seemed that we were way behind the rest of you when it came to using these better indicators. Could folks please give me some advice on methods and techniques being used for E. coli and Enterococcus (24 hour tests) and where reagents can be obtained? I'd appreciate any information you can provide. Thank you. Karen B. Terbush Sr. Environmental Analyst NYS Office of Parks,Recreation and Historic Preservation Environmental Management Bureau Agency Bldg. 1, Empire State Plaza Albany, NY 12238 (518) 474-0409 Fax 474-7013 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * beachnet is hosted by the Great Lakes Information Network: http://www.great-lakes.net To unsubscribe from this list: send mail to majordomo@great-lakes.net with the command 'unsubscribe beachnet' in the body of your message. No quotes or subject line are required. About : http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/beachnet/beachnet.info * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * |