What information is being collected for water bodies not meeting bacteriological water quality standards?
MDE routinely monitors fecal coliform in shellfish harvesting waters year round. Local health departments collect water samples at bathing beaches during the summer. Routine bacteriological water quality monitoring has been conducted for fresh water (non-tidal) streams and rivers through the Maryland Core/Trend monitoring network. MDE is conducting intensive (short term, one year) monitoring to address almost all of the listed non-tidal bacterial impaired water bodies. The non-tidal intensive monitoring began in November 2002 and was completed in November 2004. How is Maryland determining the sources of bacteria? Since the indicator organisms (fecal coliform, enterococcus or E. coli) used to monitor bacteriological water quality do not identify the source of fecal pollution, MDE is using bacteria source tracking (BST) to determine the relative contribution of bacteria from various categories of sources. BST is a new and innovative method of estimating bacterial sources and is based str
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