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Published on: February 13, 2015
Evaluating Oregon's beach sites for application to United States Environmental Protection Agency's BEACH Act criteria
1Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, UMCES, PO Box 38, Solomons, MD 20688, USA. bene_rae@hotmail.com
Abstract:
With the passage of the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act in 2000, coastal states were mandated to assess and sample coastal recreational waters for bacterial ambient water quality parameters. The assessment of beach sites required the application of federal guidelines and a tiered approach to delineating the beaches. Eighty-seven beach sites in Oregon were evaluated and ranked by use, available information, pollution threats, sanitary survey and monitoring data results, exposure considerations, and economic/development factors. This ranking resulted in 19 high priority beaches (tier 1), five medium priority beaches (tier 2), 23 low priority beaches, and 40 beaches with a rank of none in Oregon.
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