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Water Quality Testing in the News Fri, June 20, 2003 Surfrider's water quality testing efforts in Oregon have received a lot of press lately. See these stories published in the Newport News-Times and Eugene Register-Guard:
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ocean water quality testing program to begin Testing the water quality of recreational beaches along the Oregon coast to protect public health is the focus of a new state program initiated as part of the requirements of the federal Beach Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000 - an amendment to the Clean Water Act of 1977. "This act mandates all coastal states to adopt nearshore water quality standards, and to develop and implement a nearshore water quality monitoring program," said Dave Revell, field coordinator for the Surfrider Foundation's Oregon Chapter. Revell and fellow members of Surfriders - which dubs itself as a non-profit environmental organization "dedicated to the protection and enhancement of the world's waves and beaches" through conservation, activism, research, and education - have pushed to get the state to follow through with the process. Click here for full article text. Testing
water is a big job, but students are up to it COOS BAY - "Mr. Tinker?" asks sophomore Tuesday Reed, pointing at a dry erase board filled with her teacher's scrawl. "What does..." she takes a breath, " `enter cumulative spreadsheet for Bandon south jetty and Crooked Creek entry' mean?" Biology teacher George Tinker patiently explains that his eager Marshfield High School student has already accomplished this task, so Reed scurries off to work on something else. This is complicated stuff, the type of work usually reserved for college students and environmental scientists. But for the students in Tinker's science elective called the Coos Bay Estuary Study Project, it's schoolwork. Tinker's students test water from the ocean, the bay, even people's kitchen sinks for harmful bacteria such as E. coli. Click here for full article text. An
ocean of uncertainty: How clean are coastal waters? NEWPORT - There must be something in the water. About this, Oregon environmentalists are certain. Since the late 1990s, a group of surfers has been dispatching volunteers to fill baggies with Pacific Ocean water to test for dangerous bacteria such as E. coli. While most of the samples have come out relatively clean, the nonprofit environmental activist Surfrider Foundation has found alarming spikes in bacteria levels, which have raised more questions than answers. How much of this junk is riding the waves? Where does it come from? How many people have gotten sick from it? Who's at risk? Nobody knows. Click here for full article text |
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