Re: BEACHNET==> Mercury as a Pathogen Indicator.

["Joan Rose" <rosejo@msu.edu>]

Chemicals have never been able to serve as a pathogen indicator.   I know of no data which would correlate mercury to other microbial pollutants of concern.  I do not even think that most of the sources are correlated (industrial and atmospheric). 

Do you know anything more about it?

 

Joan

Joan B. Rose, PhD
Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research
Michigan State University
13 Natural Resources
E. Lansing MI 48824
517-432-4412 (ph)
517-432-1699 (fax)
rosejo@msu.edu

----- Original Message -----

From: lwhite

To: beachnet@great-lakes.net

Cc: 'Barker, Danny'

Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 10:06 AM

Subject: BEACHNET==> Mercury as a Pathogen Indicator.

Representative Mark Kirk offered an amendment to the Beach Protection Act of 2008 ?to treat Mercury as a Pathogen Indicator?.  I?m looking for what the main point of this amendment is.  Is it that mercury should be consider a contaminant or an indicator of something else?

 

Lewis R. White, P. E.

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KCI Technologies, Inc

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