Thursday, August 4, 2011

Aug. 3 Etowah River Bacteria Monitoring Data: all 'safe'

 

Attached please find CRBI's Etowah River Bacteria Monitoring Graph for Aug. 3, 2011. The Geometric Mean for the three testing sites was 53.7, well below the U.S. EPA safe standard of 126 cfu/100ml.

 

 

8/3/2011 Water Temp. 23 C

Second Ave.

53.8 cfu/100ml

Rome Bypass

59.4 cfu/100ml

US  411

48.7 cfu/100ml

Geometric Mean:

53.7 cfu/100ml

 

Since CRBI began this testing program in March, the geometric mean of the three testing sites has been within "safe limits" in 16 of 19 monitoring
events.

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