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Monitoring Season Begins At Wisconsin Beaches

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Updated: 9:17 am CDT June 17, 2009

Going to a Wisconsin beach and want to know its water quality?

Local governments monitor the latest conditions at 120 Lake Superior and Lake Michigan beaches and they will be updated through the Web site www.wibeaches.us.

Swimmers can also find information for more than 100 inland beaches in Madison, La Crosse County, Waukesha County and Winnebago County.

Under the uniform beach monitoring program administered by the state Department of Natural Resources, counties test beaches up to four times a week for E.coli bacteria.

Wisconsin was the first state to fully implement a monitoring program with federal criteria. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has called it a model for other states.

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