Frenchman's Bay water quality monitoring 2011-12 cruise ship season
Leeper PC. 2012. Frenchman's Bay water quality monitoring 2011-12 cruise ship season. National Park Service. Moody Mountain Environmental, Searsmont, Maine
From Official Introduction: “In 2011 the Town of Bar Harbor entered into a contract with Moody Mountain Environmental (MME) to conduct water quality monitoring of Frenchman’s Bay during the 2011 cruise ship season. This monitoring effort was associated with An Act to Protect Maine’s Coastal Waters (2004), which prohibits large vessels from discharging untreated gray water or an untreated mixture of gray and blackwater into Maine’s coastal waters. The goal of the project was to determine whether cruise ships are in compliance with this legislation. The Town recognized that the cruise industry is individually regulated with respect to disposal of waste water and solid waste. In addition the Town acknowledges and appreciates the innovative strides the cruise industry has made with respect to improved design and treatment of such waste. In 2004 The MDI Water Quality Coalition, a non-profit organization based on Mount Desert Island, conducted a similar monitoring effort and issued a subsequent report. This project was intended to provide an update to this previous study.” Factors measured in the field were water temperature, water transparency, turbidity, salinity dissolved oxygen, chlorine. Laboratory analysis included biological oxygen demand, nitrogen, enterococci bacteria, and phytoplankton.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Leeper, Paul
- Date of Issue
- 2012-07-27
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Assessment, biological oxygen demand (BOD), Chlorine (Cl), cruise ships, Dissolved Oxygen, enterococci (bacteria), Monitoring, Mount Desert Island, Nitrogen (N), Phytoplankton, Salinity, Turbidity, Water Quality, Water Temperature, Water Transparency