Updated at 4:00 p.m., Monday, February 5, 2007
Florida beach monitor to speak at UH
Advertiser Staff
The state chief of Florida's Bureau of Water Programs will speak at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa tomorrow on that state's beach monitoring program.The talk is part of the UH Water Resources Center continuing seminar series. The talk from Bart Bibler takes place from 3 to 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Pacific Ocean Science and Technology building, room 126.
Bibler manages Florida's beach-monitoring program and uses a Web site to inform the public about current beach bacteriological water quality for 34 of Florida's coastal counties, sampling 307 sites once a week .
He has been invited by the center and Hawai'i's Department of Health to provide Florida's assessment of the problems and rewards of establishing a Web site to provide data and classification of the water quality at each of the state's beaches. The state Health Department is considering the best way to manage a similar beach quality site.
The Florida Internet Beach Water Quality Web site can be found at www.doh.state.fl.us. Click on the drop-down arrow to "Choose Subject" and then select "Beach Water Quality."
