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Case Studies

Tackling Beach Safety with UK's First Bacterial Monitoring Buoy

Tackling Beach Safety with UK's First Bacterial Monitoring Buoy

Tackling Beach Safety with UK's First Bacterial Monitoring Buoy

Beaches full of swimmers are a common sight during the warm summer months. Perhaps never more so than during the 2022 heat wave that swept across Europe and brought record-high temperatures to many areas. With warmer temperatures and more beachgoers looking to cool off with a swim in the sea, water quality at popular beach locations is more important than ever before.In the UK, Proteus Instruments and RS Hydro are working to ensure that swimmers can safely enjoy a bath at their favorite beach with the aid of groundbreaking real-time sensor technology. Buoys equipped with Proteus water quality multi probes are helping to instantly deliver critical information on bacterial loads--data previously only available through lengthy laboratory analysis. This real-time data better informs beach managers and ultimately helps ensure the safety of swimmers. Challenge: Stormwater Overflows and Swim Safety Much like record-breaking summer heat that draws people out to swim, large storm events are also becoming more frequent and powerful. Many areas suffer from undersized and outdated stormwater runoff systems that struggle to handle these events, particularly in areas where a lot of new development is taking place. The result can be direct sewage discharges into surface waters, in some cases near popular recreational sites that can introduce potent bacteria and endanger swimmers.

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Freshwater Beach Monitoring in Chicago

Freshwater Beach Monitoring in Chicago

Freshwater Beach Monitoring in Chicago

Chicago’s beachgoers travel from near and far to enjoy Lake Michigan’s cool waters during the summer months. Like ocean beach fronts, resource managers work throughout the year to monitor water quality and environmental conditions on freshwater beaches to ensure that people are able to access the resource safely.Maggie Warren, the water quality project manager for the Chicago Park District, monitors the Lake with support from a local university during the beach season and works to publish the data for beachgoers on a daily basis. Water quality, weather conditions, and environmental hazards are monitored and then communicated to the public via a web portal, social media channels, and physical flags at each of the managed beaches. Challenge: Making Data Available Chicago is a massive urban center with millions of residents and tourists each year, and reaching everyone with valuable information before they head to the beach is essential. Second, Chicago is a large area with 26 miles of beachfront to monitor, which presents a unique opportunity to analyze the water quality along this stretch of water, and turn the information around in a timely manner.

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Predictive E.coli Modeling

Predictive E.coli Modeling

Predictive E.coli Modeling

The Tom Ridge Environmental Center is located at the entrance to Presque Isle State Park in Erie, Penn. TREC is open year-round, offering visitors insight to what they can expect at Presque Isle State Park and the surrounding Great Lakes Region. TREC also serves as a center for research, contributing to conservation efforts, promoting environmental awareness, and helping to preserve the unparalleled beauty of Presque Isle.The Regional Science Consortium is one of the many educational and research organizations establishing itself at the center. The collaborative, non-profit consortium coordinates educational and research projects for Lake Erie and the upper Ohio River Basin.The consortium's objective is to have all branches of science working in collaboration to exchange expertise, equipment, and ideas while sharing researchers and students as well. One of the consortium's most recent research tools is a multi-parameter weather network that utilizes NexSens data loggers.

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