Etowah River Bacteria Monitoring Data Sept. 27

 

 

Attached please find the Etowah River Bacteria Monitoring Graph for Sept. 27. The geometric mean for our three testing sites was 76 cfu/100 ml, BELOW the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency "safe limit" of 126 cfu/100 ml.

 

Here are the readings for each of our three testing sites:

 

	9/27/2011 Water Temp. 23.5 C Sept. 22-26 1.1 inches of rain
Second Ave.	71.1 cfu/100ml
Rome Bypass	71.2 cfu/100ml
US 411	86.0 cfu/100ml
Geometric Mean:	76 cfu/100ml

 

Since CRBI began this testing program in March, the geometric mean of the three testing sites has been within "safe limits" in 23 of 27 monitoring events.

This is the last week of our summer-long bacteria monitoring program on the Etowah. In the coming weeks we will provide a synopsis of this monitoring program.

 

This week the bacteria levels are BELOW safe limits.

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