1. Locations of beach study sites, 2000 and 2001. Sites
include three Lake Erie urban beaches (Huntington, Edgewater Park, and
Villa Angela), two Lake Erie beaches in a less populated area (Headlands
and Fairport Harbor), and one inland lake beach (Mosquito Creek State Park).
2. Rain gage at Huntington Reservation, Bay
Village, Ohio. Rainfall data were used in the model for this beach.
3. Bathing area at Villa Angela, Cleveland, Ohio, one
of the three urban Lake Erie beaches studied.
4. Geese at Mosquito Lake, Cortland, Ohio. Bird droppings are
a suspected source of contamination, so the number of birds counted was used in the model for this beach
5. USGS scientists digging holes for collecting swash-zone materials at
Mosquito Lake, Cortland, Ohio.
6. USGS scientists collecting water samples and measuring specific conductance of swash-zone samples.
7. USGS scientist collecting sediments from near the swash zone by scraping the sides of each hole.
8. USGS scientist digging holes for collection of swash-zone materials at Edgewater Park, Cleveland, Ohio.
9. An ancillary sampling location (boat docks) at Mosquito Lake, Cortland, Ohio. Samples were collected from ancillary locations, such as this boat dock, to determine a possible source of E. coli contamination to the bathing beach at Mosquito Lake.
10. USGS scientist using membrane filtration to process a bathing-water sample.
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