Grantee Requirements. The Grantee shall perform the following services for beaches located along the Great Lakes that are used by the public for recreational use: 1. Obtain user id and password from the beach monitoring program manager. Identify and update organization information on the DEQ beach monitoring web site at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇.▇▇/beach/. 2. Identify beaches or similar points of access located along the Great Lakes that are used by the public for recreation. Report location information on the DEQ beach monitoring web site; information includes location name, location description, waterbody name, waterbody type, site type, if located in a state park, coordinates for latitude and longitude in decimal degrees for the endpoints and center point of each location, an 8-digit hydrological unit code, beach length in meters, the county and township location, facilities available, and optional description of amenities. 3. Notify the city, village, or township in which the beach or point of access is located prior to conducting monitoring activities. 4. Update the QAPP for the beach monitoring program prior to monitoring beaches. The QAPP must be consistent with requirements in the Public Health Code, the Part 4 Water Quality Standards, and the BEACH Act, and must be approved by the State prior to initiation of monitoring. QAPPs that have been approved and have current approval letters from the DEQ will satisfy this requirement. 5. Monitor beaches according to approved QAPP. 6. Beaches will be monitored according to R 323.1062 of the Part 4. Water Quality Standards (WQS) promulgated under Part 31, Water Resources Protection, of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451, as amended. Subrule 62 (1) of the WQS states, "All waters of the state protected for total body contact recreation shall not contain more than 130 Escherichia coli (E. coli) per 100 milliliters (ml), as a 30- day geometric mean. Compliance shall be based on the geometric mean of all individual samples taken during 5 or more sampling events representatively spread over a 30-day period. Each sampling event shall consist of three or more samples taken at representative locations within a defined sampling area. At no time shall the waters of the state protected for total body contact recreation contain more than a maximum of 300 E. coli per 100 ml. Compliance shall be based on the geometric mean of three or more samples taken during the same sampling event at representative locations within a defined sampling area." This rule is consistent with the requirements of the BEACH Act. 7. Report the current monitoring plan for each location on the DEQ beach monitoring web site. Each monitoring plan will include the start and end dates for the swimming season, and the monitoring season and the frequency that the location will be monitored. Locations can be updated individually or in groups by county. Usually, the sampling events are regularly scheduled throughout the swimming season. The DEQ acknowledges that some beaches may have fewer sampling events due to financial limitations. 8. Report location of at least three monitoring points per site on the DEQ beach monitoring web site prior to reporting monitoring data. Report results for composite samples or individual samples for E. coli and status of beach (open/closed/advisory) within 36 hours of the test or evaluation to the DEQ via the web site, the city, village, or township in which the site is located, and the owner or operator. The DEQ beach monitoring web site can calculate daily geometric means and 30-day geometric means as individual results are reported. 9. Conduct a beach sanitary survey for each location that will be monitored. The USEPA has provided the following beach sanitary survey tools that may be used to conduct an annual or a routine beach sanitary survey: an annual beach sanitary survey form, a routine beach sanitary survey form, a beach sanitary survey database, and a guidance document. Please contact the program manager for instructions to get this information. It is recommended that a beach sanitary survey also be conducted at non- monitored locations when possible. The sanitary survey will indicate whether beach owners have posted signs that indicate whether the site is monitored or not and where the results can be found if the site is monitored. The Grantee may purchase signs with grant funds that will be posted as described in the Public Health Code for publicly owned beaches. Open stretches of beach or beaches at road ends that are not advertised or posted as public bathing beaches do not need to have signs posted. Notify the beach monitoring program manager, the city, village, or township in which the site is located, and the owner or operator of the beach of the results or findings of the sanitary survey. 10. Report beach sanitary survey results to the DEQ beach monitoring web site. 11. The DEQ is interested in comparing the results of culture-based methods with the results obtained from QPCR methods. If you are interested, please contact the program manager for information. 12. A composite sample can be submitted to a lab for testing instead of three individual samples. This approach has potential to reduce costs thus providing funds that can be used to increase the duration and frequency of monitoring, conduct more sanitary surveys, develop predictive models (Virtual Beach), and perform QPCR methods for comparison of results between culture-based and QPCR methods. Please note that a revised beach monitoring QAPP will be required to include the procedures for composite sampling, predictive models (Virtual Beach), and performing QPCR methods. Please contact the program manager for more information about revising the QAPP. The revised QAPP must be approved prior to conducting these activities. 13. Provide training for staff involved in the Program as necessary to maintain knowledge of current regulations and internal policies and procedures to keep staff informed of technological improvement and advancements as approved by the state. Recommended training opportunities: i. Great Lakes Beach & Water Safety Conference, October 23-25, 2018 ▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/ Conference rate of $129 per room ends October 8, 2018. ii. Michigan Environmental Health Association’s Annual Education Conference (March 19-21, 2019 at the McCamly Plaza in Battle Creek, Michigan, hotel block open in November 2018) ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇.net/AEC 14. Submit a final report to the beach monitoring program manager. The final report shall include a list of monitored beaches, a summary of monitoring results, a summary of beach sanitary survey reports, and a description of the public notification plan, outreach activities, public education effort, and effort to receive public comment about beach monitoring activities.
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Grantee Requirements. The Grantee shall perform the following services for beaches located along the Great Lakes that are used by the public for recreational use:
1. Obtain user id ID and password from the beach monitoring program manager. Identify and update organization information on the DEQ EGLE beach monitoring web site website at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇.▇▇/beach/./▇▇▇▇▇.
2. Identify beaches or similar points of access located along the Great Lakes that are used by the public for recreation. Report location information on the DEQ Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) beach monitoring web sitewebsite; information includes location name, location description, waterbody name, waterbody type, site type, if located in a state park, coordinates for latitude and longitude in decimal degrees for the endpoints and center point of each location, an 8-digit hydrological unit code, beach length in meters, the county and township location, facilities available, and optional description of amenities.
3. Notify the city, village, or township in which the beach or point of access is located prior to conducting monitoring activities.
4. Update the QAPP for the beach monitoring program prior to monitoring beaches. The QAPP must be consistent with requirements in the Public Health Code, the Part 4 Water Quality Standards, and the BEACH Act, and must be approved by the State prior to initiation of monitoring. QAPPs that have been approved and have current approval letters from the DEQ EGLE will satisfy this requirement.
5. Monitor beaches according to approved QAPP.
6. Beaches will be monitored according to R 323.1062 of the Part 4. Water Quality Standards (WQS) promulgated under Part 31, Water Resources Protection, of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451, as amended. Subrule 62
(1) of the WQS states, "All waters of the state protected for total body contact recreation shall not contain more than 130 Escherichia coli (E. coli) per 100 milliliters (ml), as a 30- 30-day geometric mean. Compliance shall be based on the geometric mean of all individual samples taken during 5 five (5) or more sampling events representatively spread over a 30-day period. Each sampling event shall consist of three (3) or more samples taken at representative locations within a defined sampling area. At no time shall the waters of the state protected for total body contact recreation contain more than a maximum of 300 E. coli per 100 ml. Compliance shall be based on the geometric mean of three (3) or more samples taken during the same sampling event at representative locations within a defined sampling area." This rule is consistent with the requirements of the BEACH Act.
7. Beaches may be monitored for E. coli with quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) methods (i.e., Draft Method C). Beach monitoring activities in Michigan are prescribed in R 325.2101-325.2103 that were promulgated by authority of Sections 333.12501 and 333.12541-333.12545 of the Public Health Code, 1978 PA 368, as amended. The position of EGLE is that the implementation of Draft Method C and the qPCR value of 1.863 log10 copies per reaction for E. coli to monitor beaches is consistent with the beach monitoring rules of the Public Health Code. Local health departments are encouraged to begin using Draft Method C and the qPCR value of 1.863 log10 copies per reaction for E. coli to make decisions about whether beaches are safe for swimming.
8. Report the current monitoring plan for each location on the DEQ EGLE beach monitoring web sitewebsite. Each monitoring plan will include the start and end dates for the swimming season, and the monitoring season and the frequency that the location will be monitored. Locations can be updated individually or in groups by county. Usually, the sampling events are regularly scheduled throughout the swimming season. The DEQ EGLE acknowledges that some beaches may have fewer sampling events due to financial limitations.
89. Report location of at least three (3) monitoring points per site on the DEQ EGLE beach monitoring web site website prior to reporting monitoring data. Report results for composite samples or individual samples for E. coli and status of beach (open/closed/advisory) within 36 hours of the test or evaluation to the DEQ EGLE via the web sitewebsite, the city, village, or township in which the site is located, and the owner or operator. The DEQ EGLE beach monitoring web site website can calculate daily geometric means and 30-day geometric means as individual results are reported.
910. Conduct a beach sanitary survey for each location that will be monitored. The USEPA has provided the following beach sanitary survey tools that may be used to conduct an annual or a routine beach sanitary survey: an annual beach sanitary survey form, a routine beach sanitary survey form, a beach sanitary survey database, and a guidance document. Please contact the program manager for instructions to get this information. It is recommended that a beach sanitary survey also be conducted at non- non-monitored locations when possible. The sanitary survey will indicate whether beach owners have posted signs that indicate whether the site is monitored or not and where the results can be found if the site is monitored. The Grantee may purchase signs with grant funds that will be posted as described in the Public Health Code for publicly owned beaches. Open stretches of beach or beaches at road ends that are not advertised or posted as public bathing beaches do not need to have signs posted. Notify the beach monitoring program manager, the city, village, or township in which the site is located, and the owner or operator of the beach of the results or findings of the sanitary survey.
1011. Report beach sanitary survey results to the DEQ EGLE beach monitoring web sitewebsite.
1112. The DEQ is interested EGLE has continued interest in comparing the results of culture-based methods with the results obtained from QPCR qPCR methods. If you are interested, please contact the program manager for information.
1213. A composite sample can be submitted to a lab for testing instead of three (3) individual samples. This approach has potential to reduce costs thus providing funds that can be used to increase the duration and frequency of monitoring, conduct more sanitary surveys, develop predictive models (Virtual Beach), and perform QPCR qPCR methods for comparison of results between culture-based and QPCR qPCR methods. Please note that a revised beach monitoring QAPP will be required to include the procedures for composite sampling, predictive models (Virtual Beach), and performing QPCR qPCR methods. Please contact the program manager for more information about revising the QAPP. The revised QAPP must be approved prior to conducting these activities.
1314. Provide training for staff involved in the Program as necessary to maintain knowledge of current regulations and internal policies and procedures to keep staff informed of technological improvement and advancements as approved by the state. Recommended training opportunities:
i. 2019 Great Lakes Beach & Water Safety Conference, October 239-2511, 2018 2019 with State of the Lake Huron Conference. For more information visit the website: ▇▇▇▇▇://.▇▇▇/▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇▇▇.
ii. March 18-20, 2020, Michigan Environmental Health Association’s Annual Education Conference at the Park Place Hotel and Conference Center in Traverse City, Michigan. Hotel block open until February 17, 2020, $85 for single, $129.95 for double; reservations 1-231-946-5000. For more information visit the website: ▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/▇▇▇.
iii. April 27, 2020 to May 1, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois, National Workshop on Recreational Waters hosted by USEPA. This workshop is proposed to have no registration fee to attend. Contact ▇▇. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, Environmental Scientist at USEPA at ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇; or by email at ▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇@▇▇▇.▇▇▇.
iv. 2020 Great Lakes Beach Conference, Fall of ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇. For more information visit the website: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/ Conference rate of $129 per room ends October 8, 2018.
ii. Michigan Environmental Health Association’s Annual Education Conference (March 19-21, 2019 at the McCamly Plaza in Battle Creek, Michigan, hotel block open in November 2018) ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇.net/AEC
1415. Submit a final report to the beach monitoring program manager. The final report shall include a list of monitored beaches, a summary of monitoring results, a summary of beach sanitary survey reports, and a description of the public notification plan, outreach activities, public education effort, and effort to receive public comment about beach monitoring activities.
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