Title:
High Density Lagrangian Sampling for Pathogen Source Identification
High Density Lagrangian Sampling for Pathogen Source Identification
| dc.contributor.author | Rosenquist, Shawn E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Moak, Jason | |
| dc.contributor.author | Flite, Oscar P. | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-07-22T13:45:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-07-22T13:45:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-04 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the 2013 Georgia Water Resources Conference, April 10-11, 2013, Athens, Georgia. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In compliance to the Clean Water Act, each US state compiles a list of water bodies not meeting regulatory criteria. The most common impairment in US water bodies is elevated pathogens measured by fecal indicator bacteria (FIB). Reasons for this prevalence probably include the true magnitude of pathogen contamination, monitoring bias from human health concern, inaccuracy of FIB monitoring compared to other parameters, and difficulty estimating background condition. In practice, identification and citation of impairment is extensive, while development of plans that identify the source with certainty and implement high probability remediation lags behind. The difficulty in confidently identifying sources of impairment is an impediment to the protection of water bodies and increases the cost of remediation due to the need for casting a wider net of lower probability solutions. With a high proportion of resources directed to pathogen contamination, it is important to confidently identify sources. Increased confidence will improve efficacy of remediation and ability to secure funding. To achieve these objectives, we designed a study method to investigate Rocky Creek, a pathogen impaired stream in Augusta, GA. This method applied a Lagrangian FIB sampling approach to reduce confounding variability and a high sampling density to identify high contribution watershed areas. We then layered typical pathogen sources (e.g. septic, pet waste, sewer, wildlife) and alternative sources (e.g. sediment, instream growth) along with their GIS data over the FIB data. In this way, we were able to target remediation efforts on the convergence of sources and regions and thereby decrease the scale of remediation efforts. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Sponsored by: Georgia Environmental Protection Division; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service; Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Water Resources Institute; The University of Georgia, Water Resources Faculty. | en_US |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | This book was published by Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2152. The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of The University of Georgia, the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Research Institutes Authorization Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-307) or the other conference sponsors. | en_US |
| dc.embargo.terms | null | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/48508 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | GWRI2013. Ecological: Function, Restoration, Monitoring | en_US |
| dc.subject | Water resources management | en_US |
| dc.subject | Clean Water Act | en_US |
| dc.subject | Water quality | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pathogen source identification | en_US |
| dc.subject | Water contamination | en_US |
| dc.subject | Rocky Creek | en_US |
| dc.title | High Density Lagrangian Sampling for Pathogen Source Identification | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Proceedings | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Water Resources Institute | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Engineering | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Georgia Water Resources Conference | |
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