Together, we'll keep
Maine's beaches healthy.

Maine Healthy Beaches Volunteer Monitoring Information

• Bacteria Fact Sheet for the Maine Healthy Beaches Program
• Maine Healthy Beaches Program Field Methods
• The Maine Healthy Beaches Program: Training Plan for Collecting Water Samples and Recording Environmental Data
• Maine Heatlhy Beaches: Field Monitor Expectations
• Maine Healthy Beaches Program: Monitoring Schedule
• Maine Healthy Beaches Program Datasheet

Water Quality Monitoring

• Maine Healthy Beaches Program Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP)
• EPA's Critical Path Science Plan: For the Development of New or Revised Recreational Water Quality Criteria
• EPA Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring
• Volunteer Estuary Monitoring: A Methods Manual

Addressing Pollution Problems

• Maine's Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO)
• Clean Beaches Council
• Maine Coastal Program
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Beach Watch Program, including National Beach Guidance and Performance Criteria for Recreational Waters (EPA-823-B-02-004)
• Nonpoint Source Pollution
• Sanitary Shoreline Surveys
• Municipal Guide To Clean Water: Conducting Sanitary Surveys to Improve Coastal Water Quality (coming soon)
• Watersheds
• Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
• United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Center for Watershed Protection

Educational Resources for Boaters

• Boater Safety
• United States Coast Guard
• Clean Water
• The Ocean Conservancy Good Mate Program
• Clean Marinas
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Clean Marina Program
• Marine Pumpouts
• Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)

Maine Healthy Beaches Program Reports

• Oceanographic and Meteorological Studies
• Kennebunk River and Goochs Beach: Microbial Pollution Levels and Transport Pathways
• Kennebunk River and Goochs Beach: Appendix Figures


• Ogunquit Beach: Microbial Pollution Levels and Transport Pathways
• Ogunquit Beach: Appendix A - Figures


• Goose Rocks Beach, Kennebunkport, and Goochs Beach, Kennebunk Maine: Analysis of Water Quality Sample and Hydrodynamic Conditions

• Coastal Circulation Studies
• Kennebunk River Current Survey of August 9, 2007
• Kennebunk River Current Survey: Appendix Figures


• Ogunquit Beach Current Survey of July 12, 2007
• Ogunquit Beach Current Survey: Appendix - Support Figures