Beach Monitoring Photos

Typical posting of a beach water-quality advisory for high bacteria levels, Villa Angela, Cleveland, Ohio.

Bathing area at Villa Angela, Cleveland, Ohio, one of the beaches studied by the USGS.

Geese at Mosquito Lake, Cortland, Ohio. Bird droppings are a suspected source of contamination, so the number of birds counted was used in the predictive model for this beach. (Photo by Ted Smith, Trumbull County Health Department)

Looking east towards downtown Cleveland, Edgewater Park.  (Photo by John Graves, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District)

Looking west from the breakwater, Edgewater, Cleveland, Ohio. 

A wave measuring buoy was installed in the surf zone at Edgewater, Cleveland, Ohio.

Measuring water-quality parameters at Lakeview, Lorain, Ohio.
 

Installing piezometers into the lakebed, Edgewater, Cleveland, Ohio.

Looking towards water down row of piezometers (shallow ground-water wells) installed at Edgewater, Cleveland, Ohio.

Runoff from the parking lot can drain into the bathing area at Lakeshore, Ashtabula, Ohio.

It take 18-24 hours to obtain results of E. coli concentrations by standard cultural methods.  This shows a dilution series using a cultural method, modified mTEC, used to monitor some Ohio beaches.