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12/JULY 22. 1981

Ocean Water

Checked

By Uncle Sam

NEW YORK — If you see a white helicopter with blue EPA lettering hovering off ocean beaches this sumrrter, it will be the specially-equipped aircraft that the US. Environmental Protection Agency is using to tsample water quality'along New Jersey and Long Island ocean

shores. . ■ r

The helicopter 1 is part of a monitoring program, augmented during summer months, to see that beachgoers aren’t exposed to unhealthful waters, oil slicks or

floatable debris.

Another EPA service are telephone "hot-lines” the public can use to report any ocean beach washups or fish kills. The toll-free number is (800 *272-1108. • EPA emplflys a boat, lab-| wheels, and *3 full service manent laboratory in Edison!

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SAMPLING DEVICE is lowered thru EPA helicopter floor to obtain ocean water for analysis as part of the federal agency's beachwater quality monitoring program. Dr. Roland llemmett, left, and Kevin llerger are w orking out of the Edison, N. j. lab.

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combination of eight items. Tests determine dissolved oxygen, nutrients, suspended solids, organics, and temperature in addition to total and fecal coliform. [ bacteria) counts. Samples are also taken for tests for phytoplankton, an indicator of algae blooms, such as "red tide.” 66 stations along the shore frequented by bathers are checked weekly for bac-

teriological quality.

Dewfing recalled the summer of 1976 when debris washups caused beach clqsings. "A special • combination of events were at fault then-stratified waters and

pel flo

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rsistent on-shore winds drove

loating debris from untreated sewage discharges and stormwater runoff onto beaches. So far the outlook is good for summer: oxygen levels are adequate,

N.J., in addition to the helicopter., weather has cooperated and in its sampling program which sewage treatment continues to

includes the entire length of the improve," he'said.

Atlantic coast of New jersey and

most of Long Island's south shore. EPA coordinates its monitoring Dr. Richard T. Dewling, deputy program with several agencies EPA regional adrtiinistrator, sit id /such as the Coast Guard, and %at over 150 sampling points up National Oceanic and Al-

to 15 miles off-shore, both at the

surface and near bottom are checked at Iqast once a week for a

mospheric Administration, as well as state and county health and environmental departments.

BEACHGOERS SHOULDN'T be surprised to see the EPA chopper, here taking off from its Edison base, as it undertakes the ocean water monitoring. V ,

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