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      <th width="80%" valign="bottom"><h1 align="left">Safe to Swim - Research Links</h1></th>
      <th width="20%"><img src="../../images/homepage/beach.gif" alt="Swimming on the beach" width="147" height="75" align="right" /></th>
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  <h2>New Recreational Water Quality Criteria</h2>
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    <li>EPA's <a href="http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/standards/criteria/health/recreation/" target="_blank">nationally recommended recreational water quality criteria</a> <br />
      Protect human health in inland and coastal waters. The criteria are designed to protect primary contact recreation, such as swimming, surfing, and diving.<br />
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    <li><a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/bacterialobjectives/" target="_blank">California Bacterial Objective Project</a><br />
      <img src="../../images/logos/waterboard_logo_ltblue.jpg" alt="California Water Boards logo" width="117" height="72" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="right" /> The State Water Resources Control Board is proposing a statewide control  program to protect recreational users from the effects of pathogens in  California water bodies. The program would be adopted as amendments to both the  Inland Surface Water, Enclosed Bays and Estuaries Plan and the California Ocean  Plan. Significant proposed program elements may include: new water quality  objectives for both fresh and marine waters based on newly released United  States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) criteria; a reference  beach/natural source exclusion process and high flow exemptions; and revised  beach notification requirements.</li>
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  <h2>New Non-Culture Fecal Indicator Bacteria Methods</h2>
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    <li><a href="http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info:doi/10.1289/ehp.0901627" target="_blank">Meeting Report</a><br />
      Knowledge and Gaps  in Developing Microbial Criteria for Inland Recreational Waters<br />
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    <li><a href="http://nepis.epa.gov/Adobe/PDF/P1008BJ3.pdf" target="_blank">Rapid Detection of Microbial  Contamination of Water</a> <br />
      Application of Molecular Technologies to Source and Potable Water Monitoring<br />
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    <li><a href="http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info:doi/10.1289/ehp.0901627" target="_blank">Proposal - Rapid Detection of Microbial Contamination of Water</a><br />
      Application of Molecular  Technologies to Source and Potable Water Monitoring<br />
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    <li><a href="http://ftp.sccwrp.org/pub/download/DOCUMENTS/AnnualReports/2003_04AnnualReport/ar26-noble_pg328-337.pdf" target="_blank">A  Review of Technologies for Rapid Detection of Bacteria in Recreational Waters </a><br />
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    <li><a href="http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-engineers-developed-faster-154426.aspx" target="_blank">UCLA Engineers Develop Faster Method to Detect Bacterial Contamination in Coastal Waters</a><br />
      Method cuts testing time from a day or more to less than an hour.<a href="http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-engineers-developed-faster-154426.aspx" target="_blank"></a><br />
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  <h2>Microbial Source Studies</h2>
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    <img src="../../images/logos/sccwrp_logo_110w.gif" alt="SCCWRP logo" width="110" height="77" hspace="5" align="right" />
    <li><a href="http://ftp.sccwrp.org/pub/download/DOCUMENTS/TechnicalReports/804_SIPP_MST_ManualPag.pdf" target="_blank">The  California Microbial Source Identification Manual: A Tiered Approach to  Identifying Fecal Pollution Sources to Beaches</a><br />
      Provides guidance for cost-effectively identifying sources of fecal  contamination within a watershed. The manual is based on a hypothesis-driven  and tiered approach, in which the user implements the least expensive options  first and more expensive tools only when sufficient uncertainty warrants their  use.</li>
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  <h2>California Water Quality Collaboration Network Webinars</h2>
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    <li>Developments in Microbial Source  Tracking: California's Source ID Manual, and US EPA tests (1/15/15)</li>
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      <li><a href="/monitoring_council/collaboration_network/docs/cwqmcn011515.pdf">Topic Page and Agenda</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://waterboards.webex.com/waterboards/ldr.php?RCID=0af3f8184bbc6078d8caa5a44274aff4" target="_blank">Streaming Video</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://youtu.be/O21BPbb0iFg" target="_blank">Full Video</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.mywaterquality.ca.gov/monitoring_council/collaboration_network/docs/mst0115.pdf">Presentation</a> by Mauricio Larenas and Grace  Anderson<br />
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    <li>Microbial Source Tracking (MST) (3/24/10)
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        <li><a href="/monitoring_council/collaboration_network/docs/agenda032510.pdf">Topic Page with Agenda</a></li>
        <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzInd1Th8s4&amp;list=PLvTjRb8VCkp7hOfHPCx86vr4LtySm290z&amp;index=2" target="_blank">Streaming Video</a></li>
        <li><a href="/monitoring_council/collaboration_network/docs/ferguson032410.pdf">Presentation</a> by Donna Ferguson</li>
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  <h2>Clean Water Team Videos</h2>
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    <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMSa5d-iIl6PWTrC2Hyh93gKPs2aJVD5S" target="_blank">Playlist contains resources related to Safe to Swim water quality monitoring</a></li>
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