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Mobile Bay NEP to deploy trained dogs to screen Fly Creek for sewage sources
Summary
The Mobile Bay National Estuary Program outlined a pilot using certified detection dogs to prescreen water samples for human sewage in Fly Creek this winter; dogs will screen samples to reduce laboratory testing, and EPA partners will perform confirmatory lab analyses.
The Mobile Bay National Estuary Program told the Fairhope City Council on Jan. 27 that it will deploy a canine-led screening program to help locate sources of human sewage in Fly Creek, a stream listed under state impaired waters monitoring for elevated E. coli.
Nicole of the NEP introduced Cody, the program lead, who said the approach is intended as a rapid, lower-cost prescreening tool to point scientists toward samples that warrant laboratory analysis.…
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