LaMotte MF 3-0035 - Manual (Page 11)

Ref er ences
Many EPA webpages are valuable resources
1 www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches/technical.html#tech
Beach and recreational water quality monitoring and reporting handbook; How to
design and implement community water quality monitoring program
2 www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches/local/statreptac.pdf
Bacterial water quality standards adopted by states for marine and fresh water
recreational and fish and wildlife use
www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/volunteer
Volunteer monitoring programs: fact sheets, methods, newsletter, national directory of
volunteer monitoring programs, and much more
www.epa.gov/maia/html/fecal.html
What can you do about fecal water contamination?
www.alabamawaterwatch.org
More than a decade of experience in monitoring Alabama water bodies for pollution
3 www.micrologylabs.com/html/education_ideas.html
Microbiology for Everyone, Jonathan N. Roth – many science fair ideas, lab activities
order booklet at
4 USEPA 1997. Volunteer Stream Monitoring: A Methods Manual. EPA 841-B-97-003
pgs 180-184.
www.ccme.ca/sourcetotap/ecoli.html
Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment E. coli fact sheet and what
individuals can do to help avoid contaminating our water supply.
Ad di tional Re sources
Protecting Our Watershed (LaMotte product code 5-0093)
Community Action Package How to Manage water pollution, teacher guide, activity
notebook, posters to help students pinpoint problems, handy tote bag
GREEN Standard Water Monitoring Kit (LaMotte product code 5848)
This kit will identify 9 different test factors, such as dissolved oxygen, pH, phosphate,
turbidity, temperature that contribute to water pollution
Leaf Pack Experiments Stream Ecology Kit (LaMotte product code 5946)
Water quality kit for studying living aquatic macroinvertebrates
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