BEACHNET==> Rapid Testing Protocols and Evaluation

[Richard L Whitman <rwhitman@usgs.gov>]

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L Whitman/BRD/USGS/DOI on 10/02/2007 08:39 AM -----

"Stacy Daniels" <Sdaniels@ingenuityieq.com>

10/02/2007 08:28 AM

To	<richard_whitman@usgs.gov>
cc	<wcrawford@bldhd.org>
Subject	Beach Monitoring

FYI.
 
The U.S. EPA just published their ETV protocol for Rapid
Beach Water Quality Screening Technologies (*)
 http://www.epa.gov/etv/verifications/protocols-index.html
 
John F. Griffith at the Southern California Coastal Water
Research Project (SCCWRP) (#), cited in the refs has a white paper (2006)
at http://cws.msu.edu/documents/Griffith_RapidIndWhitepaper.pdf
,
 a Technology Report (May 2006) at http://water.rutgers.edu/Source_Tracking/MicrobialSourceTracking/485_rapid_methods_II.pdf
,
and The New Jersey Agricultural Experimental Station at
Rutgers has a Microbial Source Tracking (MST) website with lots of links
at http://water.rutgers.edu/Source_Tracking/MST.htm
 
(*)  GENERIC VERIFICATION PROTOCOL FOR RAPID BEACH
WATER QUALITY SCREENING TECHNOLOGIES 
The ETV Advanced Monitoring System Center, operated by
Battelle, has published the "Generic Verification Protocol for
Rapid Beach Water Quality Screening Technologies."  The
protocol may be used to verify the performance of screening
technologies that provide quantitative or qualitative measurements
of indicator bacteria, such as Enterococci and E. coli, in fresh,
brackish, and/or marine/coastal water samples.  The protocol is
available on the ETV Web Site at 
http://www.epa.gov/etv/verifications/protocols-index.html.  For
more information about the protocol, opportunities for
collaboration, and/or opportunities to have a technology verified,
please contact Ann Louise Sumner, Battelle, at (614) 424-3973 or
sumnera@battelle.org.   
 
(#)  I couldn't locate the SCCWRP at www.sccwrp.org
altho they're listed at http://www.sfei.org/camp/