{"id":2324,"date":"2017-07-05T19:18:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T19:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.auburn.edu\/aww\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2021-02-16T22:28:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T22:28:28","slug":"updates-on-bacteria-monitoring-from-adem-and-aww","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/updates-on-bacteria-monitoring-from-adem-and-aww\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates on bacteria monitoring from ADEM and AWW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water Watchers,<br \/>\nI hope that all are having an enjoyable summer, and have time to recreate on and in our world-class waters here in Alabama. Below are a couple of updates relative to bacterial contamination of our surface waters, and our AWW bacteriological data entry that we wanted to bring to your attention:<\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">New ADEM Bacteriological Criteria<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->AWW is in the process of updating our bacteriological criteria in our workshop, outreach Powerpoints and a new edition of our Bacteriological Manual (in the works). We want all AWW water monitors to be aware of these new criteria. The criteria changes, reductions in <em>E. coli <\/em>levels that are considered safe, are for all waters in Alabama with <em>Public Water Supply <\/em>(PWS) and<em> Fish and Wildlife <\/em>(F&amp;W) use classifications.\u00a0 ADEM lowered the summer single sample criteria for PWS and F&amp;W from 487 <em>E. coli<\/em>\/100 mL to <strong>298 <em>E. coli<\/em>\/100 mL<\/strong> in early 2017. The old values appear in the AWW Bacteriological Monitoring manual on page 29. Changes are shown below in red \u2013 <strong>we recommend that you make these corrections in your own AWW manual <\/strong>so that you will have the correct information, since we won\u2019t be able to make corrections until the new edition of our bacteriological monitoring manual is printed:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2326\" src=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/BacTtable-1024x450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/BacTtable-1024x450.png 1024w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/BacTtable-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/BacTtable-768x338.png 768w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/BacTtable.png 1055w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Note that ADEM also modified the \u2018summer\u2019 recreational season from June-September to May-October, and the &#8216;winter&#8217; season from October-May to November-April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Revised AWW Bacteriological Data Entry<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">AWW updated and streamlined the Bacteriological Data Entry by getting rid of unnecessary data entry fields:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Deleted the \u2018Transported On Ice\u2019 fields, since monitors should ALWAYS transport in a cooler with a Ziplock bag of ice, or re-freezable ice block, no matter what the length of transport time, and transportation time should not exceed three hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Deleted the column for recording Other Coliforms using \u2018rare\u2019, \u2018common\u2019, \u2018abundant\u2019 \u2018too numerous to count (TNTC)\u2019, since these terms are not useful in the database. If Other Coliform colonies are TNTC, report as 250.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">See bacteriological data entry edits below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Old data entry page:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2331\" src=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/OldDataEntry-1-1024x734.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/OldDataEntry-1-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/OldDataEntry-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/OldDataEntry-1-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/OldDataEntry-1-1080x774.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/OldDataEntry-1.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">New, streamlined bacteria data entry form, below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2333\" src=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/NewDataEntry-1024x772.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/NewDataEntry-1024x772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/NewDataEntry-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/NewDataEntry-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/NewDataEntry-1080x814.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/07\/NewDataEntry.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Keep watching the water, and thanks for your stewardship efforts in protecting our premiere waters!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water Watchers, I hope that all are having an enjoyable summer, and have time to recreate on and in our world-class waters here in Alabama. 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