Town of Hopkinton, MA — Public Bathing Beach

SANDY BEACH WATER SAMPLES 2013

Oper­at­ed by Hop­kin­ton Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment – Beach opens June 29, 2013 and clos­es August 18, 2013. It is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., sev­en days a week dur­ing this period

445. 031: Indi­ca­tor Organisms

… (B) For fresh water, the indi­ca­tor organ­ism shall be E. Coli or Enterococci.

(1) No sin­gle E. Coli sam­ple shall exceed 235 colonies per 100 ml. and the geo­met­ric mean of the most recent five E. Coli sam­ples with­in the same bathing sea­son shall not exceed 126 colonies per 100 ml. …

Indi­ca­tor Organ­ism — E. Coli

Sam­ple Date Left side of Beach CFU/100ml Cen­ter of Beach CFU/100ml Right side of Beach CFU/100ml

June 24 <10 <10 10

July 1 10 0 30

July 8 11 MPN 3.1 MPN 18 MPN

July 15

July 22

July 29

Aug 5

Aug 12

Aug 19

Aug 26

 

N.B. Although there are no life­guards at the beach after August 18, 2013 sam­ples will be tak­en to the end of August__

June — Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 66 ⁰F, = +2.3 ◦ Fͦ month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inch­es, 12.11, + 8.42 inch­es for the month July – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F, + ⁰F for the month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was____ inch­es, for the month August – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F for the month, and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inches

Tem­per­a­ture and pre­cip­i­ta­tion infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by Blue Hills Obser­va­to­ry, Mil­ton, MA

 

7/10/13

CC: Parks and Recreation

Tina Mac­Connell, Patri­cia Hol­land, LMPA

 

Cost of pro­gram 2012 12 weeks (3 sam­ples $60.00) $720.00

Sam­pling and sam­ple deliv­ery 12 ($35.14/2 hrs) $843.00

Mileage $286.33 Total $1, 849.34