Lake Erie Beach Monitoring
Ohio Water Science Center
USGS In Your State
USGS Water Science Centers are located in each state.
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Beach Monitoring Photos
Typical posting of a beach water-quality advisory for high
bacteria levels, Villa Angela, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Bathing area at Villa Angela, Cleveland, Ohio, one of the beaches
studied by the USGS.
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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)
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Looking east towards downtown Cleveland, Edgewater Park. (Photo by
John Graves, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District)
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Looking west from the breakwater, Edgewater, Cleveland, Ohio.
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A wave
measuring buoy was installed in the surf zone at Edgewater,
Cleveland, Ohio.
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Measuring water-quality parameters
at Lakeview, Lorain, Ohio.
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Installing piezometers into the lakebed, Edgewater, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Looking towards water down row of piezometers (shallow ground-water
wells) installed at Edgewater, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Runoff
from the parking lot can drain into the bathing area at Lakeshore,
Ashtabula, Ohio.
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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.
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