Maine Healthy Beaches Bacteria Highs and Lows Esperanza

Maine Healthy Beaches: Bacteria Highs and Lows Esperanza Stancioff, Keri Lindberg, Sarah Mosley, Paula Thomson University of Maine Cooperative Extension/ Maine Sea Grant, State Planning Office Maine Coastal Program

MHB Program Monitoring/Notification: • Enterococci Bacteria as indicator species • Enterolert Method Approved by EPA • Results available on-line within 28 to 32 hours • Resample occurs after an exceedance • Advisories/closures are at the discretion of the town/state park • Results and advisories/closures posted on the MHB website

Beach status Bay View (Saco) Advisory 2 Camden Yacht Club Advisory 26 Colony Beach Advisory 5 Crescent Beach (Cape Elizabeth) Advisory 2 Ferry Beach (Saco) Advisory 4 Ferry Beach (Scarborough) Advisory 2 Fortunes Rocks Beach Advisory 1 Gooches Beach Advisory 10 Gooches Beach Closed Goose Rock (Kennebunkport) Advisory 38 Hills Beach (Biddeford) Advisory 5 Lagoon Beach Advisory 3 Laite Beach Advisory 8 Laudholm Beach (WNERR-Wells) Advisory 17 Lincolnville Beach Area Advisory 1 Middle Beach (Biddeford) Advisory 1 Old Orchard Beach Advisory 2 Pine Point Advisory 5 Sea Point Beach Advisory 2 Willard Beach Closed 4 Willard Beach Advisory 6 TOTAL DAYS (2006) duration 3 147

MHB Notification Days 180 147 101 35 2004 2005 2006 2007 Advisories and Closures 2004 --2007

Areas Identified through MHB Program routine monitoring as needing surveys/Special Studies for ID of pollution sources and possible remediation of sources: § Biddeford § Kennebunk § Camden § Kennebunkport § Ogunquit § Lincolnville § South Portland § MDI

Collaboration Among Communities

5 Sanitary Shoreline Surveys 2006 Biddeford: Hills, Middle, Fortunes Rocks Beach § City Accomplishments: --Collaborative survey of Little River Watershed --Regional GIS mapping of parcels, sewer lines, and septic system status --Failing septic remediation (Basket Island) --Sewer line replacement, CSO abatement South Portland -Willard Beach: § City Accomplishments: --CSO abatement, sewer inflow reduction programs --Storm drain catch basin cleaning, drain stenciling --Public education/outreach

Kennebunkport Hotspots Assessment, Bacteria Analysis and Conclusions (F. Dillon)

Town of Kennebunk • Monitoring of Kennebunk River 05 -06 -07 Seasons • Kennebunk Cons. Comm. and Wells Reserve initiated forum for citizens in watershed • Develop a Boater’s Education Campaign-distributed 3000 brochures • Intensive sampling, and possible Sanitary shoreline/watershed survey of the area (Summer/Fall 2007), optical brightener work

5 Ogunquit River Special Study 2006 -2007 § History of elevated bacteria levels at the mouth of the river and adjacent beach sample sites, especially on an outgoing tide. § Collaborative effort between MHB Program, Town of Ogunquit, Town of Wells, WNERR, ME. DMR, and MHB Program Partners.

Preliminary Ogunquit River Results 2006

P Slovinski; S Dickson Maine Geologic Survey

Public Interface to MHB Data On-Line July 2005

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