III. Biological: for sewage and other fecal contam.

• Must take a class and be certified to do biological testing.
• E. coli: must keep samples cool and get to lab within four hours.
• Testing equipment is inexpensive; WWALS may want to buy a kit or two.
• Fecal coliform: expensive and must get to lab quickly
• but an excellent followup to discoveries of E. coli.
• Maybe UFL in Gainesville, FL.
• UGA extension offices, can ship to Athens, Georgia, for test fee.
• Realtime flouroscope test for laundry detergent markers
• Cattle and wildlife don’t use laundry detergent
• Can follow upstream to determine source
• Expensive; need grants
• Georgia Adopt-A-Stream has a ​Bacterial Monitoring Manual:

https://adoptastream.georgia.gov/documents/bacterial-monitoring-manual-complete-manual

Notes:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jZzH_YQYMdddZDoWMntLo072BUEOWJ4Wex1NZTEGcpI/edit#

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