Ohio Water Microbiology Laboratory

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5/20/2009 – The Ohio Nowcast will run from May 18 through Labor Day in 2009. The Nowcast provides near real-time estimates of recreational water-quality conditions at two Lake Erie beaches (Huntington and Edgewater) and one recreational river site (Cuyahoga River at Jaite). The Nowcast is provided by the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District 7 days/week at Lake Erie sites and by the U.S. National Park Service 4 days/week at the Cuyahoga River site. Visit the Nowcast at www.ohionowcast.info.

5/8/2009 – On May 6-7, The USGS Ohio Water Microbiology Laboratory hosted and presented a hands-on microbiology workshop to 15 students from several states. Workshop attendees learned about standard analytical methods and techniques, recreational water-quality regulations, and a rapid-detection method—quantiative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). The Environmental Pathogens Information Network (EPI-Net, www.epi-net.org ) with Purdue University sponsored the workshop.

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