Links to selected references

ANZECC and ARMCANZ (2000) Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh andMarine Water Quality 2000.

Cabelli, V.J. (1983)Health effects criteria for marine recreational waters, EPA-600/1-80-031. Split into sections for ease of downloading.

-Part 1:

-Part 2:

-Appendix Part 1:

-Appendix Part 2:

-Appendix Part 3:

-Appendix Part 4:

-Appendix Part 5:

Commission of the European Communities (2002) Proposal for a directive oftheEuropean Parliament and of the Council concerning the quality of bathingwater. Brussels, October 24.

Dufour, A.P. (1984) Health effects criteria for fresh recreational waters, EPA-600/1-84-004. Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency

Eisenberg, J.N.S., Brookhart, M.A., Rice, G., Brown, M., and Colford, J.M. Jr (2002) Disease transmission models for public health decision making: analysis of epidemic and endemic conditions caused by waterborne pathogens.

Eisenberg, J.N.S., Hubbard, A., Wade, T.J., Sylvester, M.D., LeChevallier, M.W.,

Levy, D.A., and Colford, J.M. Jr. (2006) Inferences drawn from a risk assessment compared directly with a randomized trial of a home drinking water intervention.

European Council (2006) Directive 2006/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006 concerning the management of bathing water quality and repealing Directive 76/160/EEC. Official Journal of the European Union, L64,4.3.06

Hassig, N.L., Wilson, J.E., Gilbert, R.O., Pulsipher, S.A., and Nuffer, L.L. (2005) Visual

Sample Plan Version 4.0 User’s Guide, PNNL-15247. Pacific Northwest NationalLaboratory, Richland, WA.

Available free at:

Institute for Environment and Health (2000) A review of the health effects of seabathing water written by M.A. Mugglestone, E.D. Stutt, and L. Rushton, (WebReport W2). Leicester, UK

Ministry for the Environment and Ministry of Health (2003) Microbiological Water Quality Guidelines for Marine and Freshwater Recreational Areas.

National Research Council (1977)Drinking Water and Health.

National Research Council (2004) Indicators for Waterborne Pathogens.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (1986) Ambient water quality criteria for bacteria 1986, EPA 440/5-84-002. Washington, DC

United States Environmental Protection Agency (2006) Guidance on systematic planning using the data quality objectives process (EPA QA/G-4, EPA/240/B-06/001)

United States Environmental Protection Agency (1997) Guiding Principles for Monte Carlo Analysis. Report EPA/630/R-97/001

United States Environmental Protection Agency (2002) Time-relevant beach and recreational water quality monitoring and reporting. (EPA/625/R-02/017)

United States Environmental Protection Agency (2002) Summary of the August 14–15, 2002, Experts Workshop on Public Health Impacts of Sewer Overflows (EPA833-R-02-02).

United States Environmental Protection Agency (2002) Implementation guidance for ambient water quality criteria for Bacteria (EPA-821-B-02-003).

Wade, T.J., Calderon, R.L., Sams, E., Beach, M., Brenner, K.P., Williams, A.H., and

Dufour, A.P. (2006) Rapidly measured indicators of recreational water quality are

predictive of swimming associated gastrointestinal illness.

Wade, T.J., Pai, N., Eisenberg, J.N.S., and Colford, J.M., Jr. (2003) Do US EPA water guidelines for recreational waters prevent gastrointestinal illness? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Wiedenmann, A., Krüger, P., Dietz, K., López-Pila, J.M., Szewzyk, R., and

Botzenhart, K. (2005) A randomized controlled trial assessing infectious disease

risks from bathing in fresh recreational waters in relation to the concentration

of Escherichia coli, intestinal enterococci, Clostridium perfringens and somatic

coliphages. Supplemental Material

Full article at:

Wiedenmann, A., Krüger, P., Gommel, S., Eissler, M., Hirlinger, M., Paul, A., Jüngst, K.,

Sieben, E., and Dietz, K. (2004) Epidemiological determination of disease risks frombathing. Report No. UFOPLAN 298 61 503. Federal Environmental Agency (UBA),

Berlin

World Health Organization (2003) Guidelines for Safe Recreational Water Environments. Volume 1, Coastal and Fresh Waters

World Health Organization (1999) Health based monitoring of recreational waters: the feasibility of a new approach (The ‘Annapolis Protocol’)

World Health Organization (2001) Bathing water quality and human health: faecal pollution. Outcome of an Expert Consultation, Farnham, UK, April. Cosponsored by Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, United Kingdom.

Wymer, L.J., Dufour, A.P., Brenner, K.P., Martinson, J.W., Stutts, W.R., and Schaub, S.A. (2004) The EMPACT Beaches Project: Results from a study on microbiological monitoring in recreational waters, EPA 600/R-04/023.

Yoder, J.S., Blackburn, B.G., Craun, G.F., et al. (2004) Surveillance for waterborne-disease outbreaks associated with recreational water – United States, 2001–2002. Morbidity and Mortality. Weekly Report, 53(SS-8)

Sites ofInterest

Standards, Regulations, Data, Publications, Conferences, Links to country/state sites, etc.

U.S. EPA

  • Beach Monitoring & Notification
  • BEACON: Beach Advisory and Closing On-line Notification
  • National Epidemiological and Environmental Assessment of Recreational (NEEAR) Water Study:

European Commission Environment Directorate-General

  • Bathing water quality:
  • Wandering around in the atlas:

World Health Organization, Recreational (Bathing) Waters

New Zealand Ministry for the Environment, State of the environment – Recreational water quality

Southern California Coastal Water Research Project

Great Lakes Beach Association