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Real-time water quality monitoring and providing water quality information to the Baltimore Community
Citation:
Oshima, K., G. Norris, Alan Lindquist, K. Smith, J. Essoka, AND R. Landy. Real-time water quality monitoring and providing water quality information to the Baltimore Community. Baltimore Urban Waters Partnership Meeting, Baltimore, MD, September 22, 2016.
Impact/Purpose:
The presentation, “Real-time water quality monitoring and providing water quality information to the Baltimore Community”, summarizes the Village Blue real-time water quality monitoring project being developed for the Baltimore Harbor.
Description:
EPA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have initiated the “Village Blue” research project to provide real-time water quality monitoring data to the Baltimore community and increase public awareness about local water quality in Baltimore Harbor and the Chesapeake Bay. The Village Blue demonstration project complements work that a number of state and local organizations are doing to make Baltimore Harbor “swimmable and fishable” 2 by 2020. Village Blue is designed to build upon EPA’s “Village Green” project which provides real-time air quality information to communities in six locations across the country.