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Cooperative Coastal Monitoring Program
New Jersey Department of Environmental ProtectionDivision of Watershed Management
Office of Watershed Education, Estuaries & Monitoring
Virginia Loftin
Summary
• CCMP Overview
• Monitoring Activities
• Potential Sources of Contamination at Beaches
• Beach Closings
•Aerial Surveillance of Coast
• Clean Shores Program
• Adopt A Beach Program
• Web Based Data Reporting
• Public Notification
• Funding Sources
Cooperative Coastal Monitoring Program
• Program began in 1974
• Program revised and State Sanitary Code adopted in 1986
• Responded to public health concerns
• Provided data required for general and site-specific water quality analyses
Activities include:
• Weekly monitoring of bathing beaches for enterococcus bacteria
• Aerial surveillance of coast
• Regular inspections at coastal sewage treatment plants
• Public notification of beach conditions
Complimentary Programs:
Clean Shores Program, Adopt A Beach Program
NJ Department of Environmental Protection
NJ Department of Health and Senior Services
County Health Departments
Local Health DepartmentsMiddletown HDNortheast Monmouth Regional Health CommissionLong Branch HDLong Beach Township HDAtlantic City HD
Monmouth County HDOcean County HDAtlantic County HDCape May County HDMiddlesex County HD
Cooperative Program Between:
186 Oceanstations
Most oceanmonitoringstations areassociated withpotentialpollution sources
139 BayStations
All bay beachesare monitored
Monitoring begins in mid-May andruns through early September.Samples are collected weekly onMondays.
Standard is 104 enterococcibacteria per 100 mL ofsample
Coastal Lake Discharges
Deal Lake, Loch Arbour
Sylvan Lake, Avon
Monmouth County Health DepartmentRain Provisional Policy
Wreck Pond, Spring Lake
Coastal Sewage Treatment Plant Inspections
DEP inspects 17 coastal STPs and monitors discharges to coastal waters
Ocean Beach Closings1989 - 2005
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Bay Beach Closings 1992 - 2005
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Bay Beach Closings1992 - 2005
Aerial Surveillance
What we’relooking for…
Middlesex County Utilities Authority
Raritan Bay outfall~95-150 mgd
What we usually see…
1-877-WARN DEP
CCMP staff on call 24/7 early Maythrough late September for anypollution reports in tidal waters
DEP staff respond topollution reports
Past Sources ofFloatable Debris…
Current Sources ofFloatable Debris…
Clean Shores
Dune fence and grass plantingduring spring and fall
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Clean Shores
1989 - 2005
US Army Corp of Engineers
Adopt A Beach
2 beach cleanups each year
~ 1000 volunteers/cleanup
Adopt A Beach
2005 Debris Source Data
Web-Based ReportingCompletely paperlesssystem - PDAsdistributed to allcounty field samplers
Field data isdownloaded at lab attime of sample drop-off
Web-Based Reporting• Lab managers enter
sample results directly onto web page
• System recommendsaction for agency officials(e.g. closures)
• Posting determinations areimmediately available onNJDEP and Earth 911websites
• Citizens, lifeguards, media,resorts, other stakeholdersreceive immediate emailalerts ofclosures/advisories via“opt-in”
• Results are immediatelyavailable for EPA BEACHData Flow.
Web-Based Reporting
•State-of-the-art technology reduces workload and streamlines datamanagement at all levels of government
•Government-to-Government and Government-to-Publicinformation exchange through one seamless network
1-800-648-SAND
Funding Sources
Up to $200K from the sale of theShore Protection License Plate
~ 280K each year from annualEPA BEACH grants – 90% is
passed through to counties