Animal Waste, Water Quality and Human Health

344Animal Waste, Water Quality and Human HealthTable 9.3(Continued).Annual Bathing Water Quality Advisories (# days/% season) – Racine, WIYear North Beach Zoo Beach Beach Season (Total Days)2004* 22/22% 16/16% 992005 5/5% 5/5% 992006 3/3% 7/7% 942007* 3/3% 7/7% 942008* 1/1% 3/3% 872009 2/2% 6/6% 93*Record rainfall recorded for the months of May & June 2004, August 2007, and June2008. North Beach awarded Blue Wave status in 2004ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe authors wish to recognize the contribution of Kirk Abbott, MEng, MSc,University of Surrey, Centre for Environmental Health Engineering, on physicalassessments and chemical source tracking methodologies.REFERENCESAbbott, K. (2008). Guiding remediation of the root river, Racine, WI, USA, ThroughCorrelation of Stream Bank Condition, River Morphology and InfrastructureSurveys to Chemical and Microbial Source Tracking, MS Thesis, University ofSurrey, United Kingdom.Allsop, K., & Stickler, J. (1985). An Assessment of Bacteroides fragilis group organisms asindicators of human faecal pollution. J. Appl. Bacteriol., 58, 95–99.Alm, E., Burke, J., & Hagan, E. (2006). Persistence and Potential Growth of the faecalindicator bacteria, Escherichia coli, in shoreline sand at lake huron. J. Great LakesRes., 32(2), 401–405.Anderson, S., Turner, S., & Lewis, G. (1997). Enterococci in the New Zealand environment:Implications for water quality monitoring. Wat. Sci. Technol., 35(11–12), 325–331.APHA (1989). Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater – 17th ed.Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association.Bae, S., & Wuertz, S. (2009). Discrimination of viable and dead faecal Bacteroidalesbacteria by quantitative PCR with propidium monoazide. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.,75, 2940–2944.