Southern California Bight 1998 Regional Monitoring Program: Volume 2 - Winter Shoreline Microbiology

摘要

Beaches along the Southern California Bight (SCB) are the most frequently and extensively monitored areas in the country for bacteriological water quality. Because most of the effort is focused in known problem areas, traditional sampling methods do not provide an assessment of overall shoreline water quality. To address this limitation, all of the organizations that routinely monitor bacteriological water quality along the southern California shoreline coordinated their efforts to conduct an integrated survey of the coastline in the winter of 1999. This survey complements a similar regional survey that was conducted in the summer of 1998. The primary goals for the survey were to: (1) Determine the percentage of shoreline mile-days in the SCB that exceeded bacterial indicator thresholds during February and early March 1999. (2) Compare the responses among the three bacterial indicators used to assess beach water quality in California. (3) Determine how well these bacterial indicator measurements correlated with detection of human pathogenic viral genetic material and coliphage.