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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
_______________________________________________ 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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