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Re: BEACHNET==> 305b assessment for beaches

IN has done a TMDL for beach/pathogen impairments


                                                                        
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                                      BEACHNET==> 305b assessment for   
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Hey all –

I’m looking for any insight on how 305b assessments are handled by your
state agencies on beaches in your area.  The problem that I am really
running into is that any time we do targeted sampling (increase during
the times of greatest likelihood of contamination or decrease during
really low use times) we are increasing the likelihood that beaches are
going to be put on the “impaired” list.

How have other states handled it when they have figured out what the
problems are at the beach and corrected it?  Currently we have a handful
of beaches where we figured out that it was something as silly as the
managers running a disk/drag along the swash zone about ha half hour
before we get to the beach to sample.  As soon as they stopped doing
that, the samples were fine, but the assessment doesn’t take things like
that into account.  I have plenty of other examples like that, but any
advice on how to bring some common sense to the assessment process would
be helpful.

Thanks,
Eric


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Eric O’Brien
Beach Monitoring Coordinator
Iowa DNR, Water Monitoring
109 Trowbridge Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242-1319

Office: (319) 353-2835
Cell: (319) 560-6128
Email: Eric.OBrien@dnr.iowa.gov
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