Microbial Contamination of Water Resources in the
Chattahoochee National Recreation Area, Georgia

Microbial Standards and Regulations

The Georgia Deptartment of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division (Georgia EPD) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) have developed standards and regulations pertaining to allowable levels of certain microbes in surface and drinking waters. You can view the regulations using the links below: Georgia EPD: Surface-water regulations Summary table: Instream fecal-coliform standards Georgia EPD: Drinking-water regulations US EPA: Drinking-water regulations and health advisories-microbiology

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Last Modified: Monday, 07-Jun-1999 15:49:49 EDT