physical and chemical beach water-quality data / chemical indicators / real-time provision / chemical and biological processes / rapid-testing technologies / communication networks / chemicals / /
NaturalFeature
Great Lakes / Yuba Creek / /
Organization
National Park Service / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Great Lakes Recreational Water Quality Association / /
Person
Donna Myers / Sheridan K. Haack / / /
Position
USGS Great Lakes Coordinator / Research Hydrologist/Microbiologist / /
Beach Monitoring and Forecasting Technologies Today, in order to judge the safety of beach waters, fresh-water beach mangers determine the specific numbers of Escherichia coli (E. coli) or enterococci bacteria and compar