Beach monitoring criteria: Reading the fine print

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 10315-10321

  Nevers, Meredith B ^a   Whitman, Richard L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT WATERS; BEACH MONITORING; COASTAL LAKE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; GEOMETRIC MEAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL WATER QUALITY; POINT SOURCES; RE-EVALUATION; RECREATIONAL WATER; SITE-SPECIFIC; WATER QUALITY STANDARD;

BACTERIA; HEALTH RISKS; LAKES; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; STANDARDS; WATER QUALITY;

BEACHES;

BEACH; DISEASE CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECAL COLIFORM; HEALTH RISK; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION POLICY; RECREATIONAL FACILITY; STANDARD (REGULATION); WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SEASHORE; SWIMMING; WATER QUALITY;

BATHING BEACHES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; LEGISLATION AS TOPIC; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE MICHIGAN;

EID: 83455221035     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202568f     Document Type: Article

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