Fecal coliform disappearance in a river impoundment

River Impoundment and Sunfish Growth

Impoundment of rivers by dams is widespread and one of the most devastating anthropogenic impacts to freshwater environments. Linking theoretical and applied research on river impoundment requires an improved capacity for predicting how varying degrees of impoundment affects a range of species. Here, growth of 14 North American sunfish species resilient to river impoundment was compared in rive...

Statistical Evaluation of BMP Effectiveness in Reducing Fecal Coliform Impairment in Mermentau River Basin

This paper presents a statistical method for determining pathogen sources and for evaluating the effectiveness of conventional Best Management Practices (BMPs) in reducing fecal coliform bacterial impairment using water quality data monitored from 1980 – 2006 in the Mermentau River Basin. The statistical method mainly involves (1) determination of seasonal variations in the mean of flow and fec...

Fecal Coliform Organism Enumeration in Chlorinated Wastewaters

The accepted method for determining disinfection efficiency of wastewater treatment systems is routinely to perform fecal coliform bacteria analyses on the final effluent (5). Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater outlines two procedures for fecal coliform analysis: the membrane filtration technique and the most-probable-number (MPN) method (1). For chlorinated effluents,...

Analysis of fecal coliform concentrations of Otsego Lake ' s tributaries and the upper Susquehanna River , 1996

In previous years, studies h.;.ve been conducted on several tributaries of Otsego Lake and the upper Susquehanna River that analyzed the concentrations offecal coliforms. a group of bacteria found in the intestines ofwarm blooded animals and thus indic' ve offecal contamination. Research was conducted for the duration of the SUIll:.ler ,f 1996 on the upper Susquehanna River, Hayden Creek, Shado...

Upper Hillsborough River Bacterial Contamination Assessment Bacterial Source Tracking: Antibiotic Resistance Analysis of Fecal Coliform Bacteria