GREAT LAKES COASTAL HEALTH (CH) STRATEGY TEAM
Established under the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration
Pursuant to the Executive Order of May 18, 2004
(This site was updated on September 21, 2005)
CH RESOURCES AND LINKS
On the Web | Journal Articles and Reports
Great Lakes Sea Grant Network, www.greatlakesseagrant.org
Ohio Sea Grant, www.sg.ohio-state.edu
Illinois Indiana Sea Grant, www.iisgcp.org
Michigan Sea Grant, www.miseagrant.umich.edu
Minnesota Sea Grant, www.seagrant.umn.edu
New York Sea Grant, www.seagrant.sunysb.edu
Pennsylvania Sea Grant, www.pserie.psu.edu/seagrant/seagindex.htm
Wisconsin Sea Grant, www.seagrant.wisc.edu
Great Lakes Water Institute, www.uwm.edu/Dept/GLWI/ecoli
Evaluate Ohio's Lake Erie beaches, www.sg.ohio-state.edu
Forecasting Bacteria Levels at Bathing Beaches in Ohio, http://oh.water.usgs.gov/reports/fs-132-02.pdf
Escherichia coli in the swash zone at four Ohio bathing beaches. http://oh.water.usgs.gov/reports/fs-134-02.pdf
Escherichia coli at Ohio Bathing Beaches—distribution, sources, wastewater indicators, and predictive modeling, http://oh.water.usgs.gov/reports/Abstracts/wrir02-4285.html
IL: www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/beachhome.htm
IN: www.in.gov/idem/beaches/proj.html
MI: www.michigan.gov/deq/1,1607,7-135-3313_3686_3730---C1,00.html
MN: www.pca.state.mn.us/water/beaches
OH: www.odh.state.oh.us/ODHPrograms/BEACH/sample.htm
NY: www.beach.com/stateofthebeach/6-state/state.asp?state=NY
PA: www.great-lakes.net/beachcast/pa
WI: www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/wm/wqs/beaches
USEPA Beach WEB Page, www.epa.gov/OST/beaches
BeachCast, www.great-lakes.net/beachcast
The Great Lakes Beach Association website at www.great-lakes.net/glba
U.S. EPA's "Beach Standards, Monitoring, & Notification" website (including links related to the Clean Beaches Plan and the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000): www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches
U.S. EPA's "Wet Weather Discharges" website (including links to websites on the storm water, CSO, and SSO programs): http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/wetweather.cfm
U.S. EPA's "Report to Congress: Impacts and Control of CSOs and SSOs" (delivered August 26, 2004): http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/cso/cpolicy_report2004.cfm
Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies
January 2005 Action Plan (in response to the Report to Congress):
www.amsa cleanwater.org/advocacy/co/2005-01-14apltr.pdf
U.S. Geological Survey Ohio District's "Beach Monitoring Research" website (including information on Lake Erie research in which the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District has been involved): http://oh.water.usgs.gov/beaches
Ohio Department of Health's "Beach Monitoring" website (including links to Lake Erie beach sample results): www.odh.ohio.gov/ODHPrograms/BEACH/beachmain.htm
www.epa.gov/glnpo/glindicators/water/beachb.html (1998 2002)
www.epa.gov/glnpo/beach (1981 1994 beach report)
www.great-lakes.net/beachcast/nr.html
http://oaspub.epa.gov/beacon/beacon_national_page.main (find data for any coastal beach in the Country with data for the last several years thru 2003 available)
Alm EW, Burke J, Spain A. Fecal indicator bacteria are abundant in wet sand at freshwater beaches WATER RESEARCH 37 (16): 3978-3982 2003.
Brinkman NE, Haugland RA, Wymer LJ, et al. Evaluation of a rapid, quantitative real-time PCR method for enumeration of pathogenic Candida cells in water. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 69 (3): 1775-1782 2003.
Byappanahalli M, Fowler M, Shively D, et al. Ubiquity and persistence of Escherichia coli in a Midwestern coastal stream APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 69 (8): 4549-4555 2003
Byappanahalli MN, Shively DA, Nevers MB, et al. Growth and survival of Escherichia coli and enterococci populations in the macro-alga Cladophora (Chlorophyta) FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY 46 (2): 203-211 2003
Fogarty LR, Haack SK, Wolcott MJ, et al. Abundance and characteristics of the recreational water quality indicator bacteria Escherichia coli and enterococci in gull faeces JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY 94 (5): 865-878 2003
Francy DS, Darner RA. Comparison of methods for determining Escherichia coli concentrations in recreational waters WATER RESEARCH 34 (10): 2770-2778 2000
Garza EL, Whitman RL. The nearshore benthic invertebrate community of southern Lake Michigan and its response to beach nourishment JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH 30 (1): 114-122 2004
Haack SK, Fogarty LR, Wright C. Escherichia coli and enterococci at beaches in the Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan: Sources, characteristics, and environmental pathways ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 37 (15): 3275-3282 2003.
Kinzelman J, Ng C, Jackson E, et al. Enterococci as indicators of Lake Michigan recreational water quality: Comparison of two methodologies and their impacts on public health regulatory events APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 69 (1): 92-96 2003
Kinzelman JL, Whitman RL, Byappanahalli M, et al. Evaluation of beach grooming techniques on Escherichia coli density in Foreshore Sand at North Beach, Racine, WI LAKE AND RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT 19 (4): 349-354 D 2003
Lauber CL, Glatzer L, Sinsabaugh RL. Prevalence of pathogenic Escherichia coli in recreational waters JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH 29 (2): 301-306 2003
McLellan, S. L. Genetic diversity of Escherichia coli isolated from urban rivers and beach water. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 70:4658-4665. 2004.
McLellan, S. L., A. D. Daniels, and A. K. Salmore. Clonal populations of thermotolerant Enterobacteriaceae in recreational water and their potential interference with fecal Escherichia coli counts. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 67:4934- 4938. 2001.
McLellan, S. L., A. D. Daniels, and A. K. Salmore. Genetic characterization of Escherichia coli populations from host sources of fecal pollution by using DNA fingerprinting. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 69:2587-2594. 2003.
Murray C, Sohngen B, Pendleton L. Valuing water quality advisories and beach amenities in the Great Lakes WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 37 (10): 2583-2590 OCT 2001
Olyphant GA, Thomas J, Whitman RL, et al. Characterization and statistical modeling of bacterial (Escherichia coli) outflows from watersheds that discharge into southern Lake Michigan ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 81 (1-3): 289-300 2003
Olyphant GA, Whitman RL. Elements of a predictive model for determining beach closures on a real time basis: The case of 63rd Street Beach Chicago ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 98 (1-3): 175-190 2004
Rabinovici SJM, Bernknopf RL, Wein AM, et al. Economic and health risk trade-offs of swim closures at a Lake Michigan beach ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 38 (10): 2737-2745 15 2004
Ram JL, Ritchie RP, Fang JW, et al. Sequence-based source tracking of Escherichia coli based on genetic diversity of beta-glucuronidase JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 33 (3): 1024-1032 MA 2004
Selegean JPW, Kusserow R, Patel R, et al. Using zebra mussels to monitor Escherichia coli in environmental waters JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 30 (1): 171-179 2001
Vail JH, Morgan R, Merino CR, et al. Enumeration of waterborne Escherichia coli with petrifilm plates: Comparison to standard methods JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 32 (1): 368-373 2003
Whitman RL, Nevers MB, Korinek GC, et al. Solar and temporal effects on Escherichia coli concentration at a lake Michigan swimming beach APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 70 (7): 4276-4285 2004
Whitman RL, Nevers MB. Escherichia coli sampling reliability at a frequently closed Chicago beach: Monitoring and management implications ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 38 (16): 4241-4246 2004
Whitman RL, Nevers MB. Foreshore sand as a source of Escherichia coli in nearshore water of a Lake Michigan beach APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 69 (9): 5555- 5562 2003
Whitman RL, Shively DA, Pawlik H, et al. Occurrence of Escherichia coli and enterococci in Cladophora (Chlorophyta) in nearshore water and beach sand of Lake Michigan APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 69 (8): 4714-4719 2003
Natural Resources Defense Council, "Swimming in Sewage."
Natural Resources Defense Council, "Testing the Waters."
Rose, Joan. Report on Hazards associated with sewage blending. Michigan State University.
EPA CSO Guidance Series & Related Reports & Documents. October, 2004. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. {Available from U.S. EPA in CD-ROM only.}
Great Lakes Strategy 2002. U.S. Policy Committee. April, 2002. Annual Tracking reports also available from EPA’s Great Lakes National Program Office. Online at www.epa.gov/glnpo/gls