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Center for Coastal & Land-Margin Research

In addition to physical parameters (bathymetry, tidal elevations, river flow, precipitation) CCALMR also made extensive use of chemical/biological indicators of water quality, most especially enumerations of fecal coliform bacteria (Most Probable Number method) in discrete samples of bay water. The data was provided by the EPA storet system and was collected in the field by the Department of Environmental Quality. This document provides access to three different treatments of the fecal coliform data:

These simple analyses attempt to derive relationships and correlations among several variables using the existing DEQ data set. Data points at each station in this database are typically 30 to 40 days apart, with gaps of one to several months being common. This level of temporal sparseness leads to a well-known aliasing effect and may in fact be the limiting factor in evaluating the current water quality management strategy against observation.
Pages containing fecal coliform data analysis rely on tabes
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