Statistical investigations into indicator bacteria concentrations in Houston Metropolitan Watersheds

Water Environment Research

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 302-318

  Desai, Anuradha M ^a   Rifai, Hanadi ^a   Helfer, Emil ^a   Moreno, Norma ^a   Stein, Ron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b Texas Commission on Environmental Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial pollution; Escherichia coli; Regression; Spatial and temporal variability; Statistical analyses; Urban; Watershed

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAND USE; POLLUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRAVEL TIME; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

CONCENTRATION RANGES; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; POPULATION DENSITIES; REGRESSION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; URBAN; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

WATER POLLUTION;

RAIN;

BACTERIUM; BIOINDICATOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRASSLAND; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77950435798     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: 15547531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143009X12487095236595     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Boehm, A. B.; Grant, S. B.; Kim, J. H.; Mowbray, S. L.; McGee, C. D.; Clark, C. D.; Foley, D. M.; Wellman, D. E. (2002) Decadal and Shorter Period Variability of Surf Zone Water Quality at Huntington Beach, California. Environ. Sci. Technol., 36, 3885-3891.
2. Brooks, B. W.; Riley, T. M.; Taylor, R. D. (2006) Water Quality of Effluent-Dominated Ecosystems: Ecotoxicological, Hydrological, and Management Considerations. Hydrobiologia, 556, 365-379.
3. Chang, H. (2008) Spatial Analysis of Water Quality Trends in the Han River Basin, South Korea. Water Res., 42, 3285-3304.
4. Eleria, A.; Vogel, R. M. (2005) Predicting Fecal Coliform Bacteria Levels in the Charles River, Massachusetts, USA. J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc., 41, 1195-1209.
5. Faul, F.; Erdfelder, E.; Lang, A.-G.; Buchner, A. (2007) G*Power 3: A Flexible Statistical Power Analysis Program for the Social, Behavioral, and Biomedical Sciences. Behavior Res. Methods, 39, 175-191.
6. Federal Water Pollution Control Act (2005) Title 33, U.S. Code, section 26.
7. Ferguson, C. M.; Coote, B. G.; Ashbolt, N. J.; Stevenson, I. M. (1996) Relationships Between Indicators, Pathogens and Water Quality in an Estuarine System. Water Res., 30, 2945-12054
8. Francy, D. S.; Gifford, A. M.; Darner, R. A. (2002) Escherichia Coli at Ohio Bathing Beaches - Distribution, Sources, Wastewater Indicators, and Predictive Modeling, Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4285; U.S. Geological Survey: Reston, Virginia.
9. Frick, W. E.; Ge, Z.; Zepp, R. G. (2008) Nowcasting and Forecasting Concentrations of Biological Contaminants at Beaches: A Feasibility and Case Study. Environ. Sci. Technol., 42, 4818-4824.
10. Ge, Z.; Frick, W. E. (2007) Some Statistical Issues Related to Multiple Linear Regression Modeling of Beach Bacteria Concentrations. Environ. Res., 103, 358-364.
11. He, L.-M.; He, Z.-L. (2008)Water Quality Prediction of Marine Recreational Beaches Receiving Watershed Baseflow and Stormwater Runoff in Southern California, USA. Water Res., 42, 2563-2573.
12. Heberger, M. G.; Durant, J. L.; Oriel, K. A.; Kirshen, P. H.; Minardi, L. (2008) Combining Real-Time Bacteria Models and Uncertainty Analysis for Establishing Health Advisories for Recreational Waters. J. Water Resour. Plann. Manage., 134, 73-82.
13. Houston-Galveston Area Council (2002) Regional Land Cover Data. Houston-Galveston Area Council: Houston, Texas, http://www.h-gac.com/rds/land- use/default.aspx.
14. Jeong, Y.; Grant, S. B.; Ritner, S.; Pednekar, A.; Candelaria, L.; Winant, C. (2005) Identifying Pollutant Sources in Tidally Mixed Systems: Case Study of Fecal Indicator Bacteria from Marinas in Newport Bay, Southern California. Environ. Sci. Technol., 39, 9083-9093.
15. Karson, M. J. (1982) Multivariate Statistical Methods; Iowa State University Press: Ames, Iowa.
16. Kirkpatrick, J. (1987) Intensive Survey of Buffalo Bayou Tidal and Buffalo Bayou Above Tidal, IS 87-05; Texas Water Commission: Austin, Texas.
17. Kuo, J.-T.; Hsieh, M.-H.; Lung, W.-S.; She, N. (2007) Using Artificial Neural Network for Reservoir Eutrophication Prediction. Ecol. Model., 200 (1-2), 171-177.
18. Mallin, M. A.; Williams, K. E.; Esham, E. C.; Lowe, R. P. (2000) Effect of Human Development on Bacteriological Water Quality in Coastal Watersheds. Ecol. Appl., 10, 1047-1056.
19. Myers, D. N.; Sylvester, M. A. (1997) Fecal Indicator Bacterial, Chapter 7, U.S. Geological Survey Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations, Book 9; U.S. Geological Survey: Reston, Virginia.
20. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2001) Divisional Normals and Standard Deviations of Temperature, Precipitation, and Heating and Cooling Degree Days: 1971-2000 (and Previous Normal Periods), Section 1: Precipitation. Climatograph of the United States 85; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Washington, D.C.
21. Paul, S.; Srinivasan, R.; Sanabria, J.; Haan, P. K.; Mukhtar, S.; Neimann, K. (2006) Groupwise Modeling Study of Bacterially Impaired Watersheds in Texas: Clustering Analysis. J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc., 42, 1017-1031.
22. Petersen, T. M. (2006) Spatial and Temporal Modeling of Esherichia Coli Sources and Load Allocations in an Urban Watershed. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.
23. Petersen, T. M.; Rifai, H. S.; Suarez, M. P.; Stein, R. (2006) Status and Trends of Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Two Urban Watersheds. Water Environ. Res., 78, 2340-2355.
24. Qian, Y.; Migliaccio, K. W.; Wan, Y. S.; Li, Y. C. (2007) Surface Water Quality Evaluation Using Multivariate Methods and a New Water Quality Index in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida. Water Resour. Res., 43 (8), W08405.
25. Reeves, R. L.; Grant, S. B.; Morse, R. D.; Oancea, C. M. C.; Sanders, B. F.; Boehm, A. B. (2004) Scaling and Management of Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Runoff from a Coastal Urban Watershed in Southern California. Environ. Sci. Technol., 38, 2637-2648.
26. Rogers, G. O.; DeFee Ii, B. B. (2005) Long-Term Impact of Development on a Watershed: Early Indicators of Future Problems. Landsc. Urban Plann., 73, 215-233.
27. Sercu, B.; Werfhorst, L. C. V. D.; Murray, J.; Holden, P. A. (2009) Storm Drains are Sources of Human Fecal Pollution During Dry Weather in Three Urban Southern California Watersheds. Environ. Sci. Technol., 43 (2), 293-298.
28. Shah, V. G.; Dunstan, R. H.; Geary, P. M.; Coombes, P.; Roberts, T. K.; Rothkirch, T. (2007) Comparisons of Water Quality Parameters from Diverse Catchments During Dry Periods and Following Rain Events. Water Res., 41, 3655-3666.
29. Shehane, S. D.; Harwood, V. J.; Whitlock, J. E.; Rose, J. B. (2005) The Influence of Rainfall on the Incidence of Microbial Faecal Indicators and the Dominant Sources of Faecal Pollution in a Florida River. J. Appl. Microbiol., 99, 1127-1136.
30. Shrestha, S.; Kazama, F. (2007) Assessment of Surface Water Quality Using Multivariate Statistical Techniques: A Case Study of the Fuji River Basin, Japan. Environ. Model. Software, 22, 464-475.
31. Smyer, S. (2008) City of Houston Wastewater History; Wastewater Operations Branch, City of Houston: Houston, Texas.
32. Solo-Gabriele, H. M.; Wolifert, M. A.; Desmarais, T. R.; Palmer, C. J. (2000) Sources of Escherichia Coli in a Coastal Subtropical Environment. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 66, 230-237.
33. Traister, E.; Anisfeld, S. C. (2006) Variability of Indicator Bacteria at Different Time Scales in the Upper Hoosic River Watershed. Environ. Sci. Technol., 40, 4990-4995.
34. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1986) Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Bacteria, EPA-440/4-84-002; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Washington, D.C.
35. Van Dolah, R. F.; Riekerk, G. H. M.; Bergquist, D. C.; Felber, J.; Chestnut, D. E.; Holland, A. F. (2008) Estuarine Habitat Quality Reflects Urbanization at Large Spatial Scales in South Carolina's Coastal Zone. Sci. Total Environ., 390, 142-154.
36. Vega, M.; Pardo, R.; Barrado, E.; Debán, L. (1998) Assessment of Seasonal and Polluting Effects on the Quality of River Water by Exploratory Data Analysis. Water Res., 32, 3581-3592.
37. Weiskel, P. K.; Howes, B. L.; Heufelder, G. R. (1996) Coliform Contamination of a Coastal Embayment: Sources and Transport Pathways. Environ. Sci. Technol., 30, 1872-1881.
38. Wenning, R. J.; Erickson, G. A. (1994) Interpretation and Analysis of Complex Environmental Data Using Chemometric Methods. Trends Anal. Chem., 13, 446-457.
39. Whitman, R. L.; Nevers, M. B.; Byappanahalli, M. N. (2006) Examination of the Watershed-Wide Distribution of Escherichia Coli Along Southern Lake Michigan: An Integrated Approach. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 72, 7301-7310.
40. Young, K. D.; Thackston, E. L. (1999) Housing Density and Bacterial Loading in Urban Streams. J. Environ. Eng., 125 (12), 1177-1180.