Maine Healthy Beaches Volunteer Monitoring Information
Educational Resources
for Boaters
Maine Healthy Beaches Program Reports
Download the Municipal Guide To Clean Water: Conducting Sanitary Surveys to Improve Coastal Water Quality
Download our new Maine Healthy Beaches brochure
A Guide to Safer Swimming in Maine here!
Download our new Boater's Education brochure here!
Maine Healthy Beaches Advisory Fact Sheet in PDF format
Bacteria Fact Sheet in PDF format
Public Shoreline Access in Maine: A Citizens Guide to Ocean and Coastal Law in PDF format
Maine Healthy Beaches Program Field Monitoring Methods in PDF format
Resources
Maine's beautiful beaches offer miles and miles of fun. Building public awareness about healthy beach habits will ensure our beaches remain a precious natural resource we can all enjoy.
The communication materials on this site are available at no charge. Feel free to download any of the files: print them, play them, use them in your local beach community or add them to your Web site. Pass the information along to anyone who may benefit from it.
Maine Healthy Beaches poster in PDF format
Rip Current Poster in PDF format
Boater's Education Flyer in PDF format
Pet Waste & Water Quality Brochure in PDF format
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
Educational Resources for Boaters
- Boater Safety
- Clean Water
- Clean Marinas
- Marine Pumpouts
Maine Healthy Beaches Program Reports
- Maine Healthy Beaches 2018 Report to US EPA, July 2019
- Maine Healthy Beaches, a unique partnership to keep Maine beaches clean. Status & Trends 2005-2010
- 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