I want to test the amount of e-coli in Warm Springs Run. I mainly want to test in six different spots along the run. I want to test at the head waters, before U.S. Silica, after U.S. Silica, in our town park, in front of our school cafeteria, and at the very end of the run. I will test each of the spots once a week for three months at a cost of style="BORDER-RIGHT: 2px inset; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; BORDER-TOP: 2px inset; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: -3px; BORDER-LEFT: 2px inset; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 3px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 2px inset; POSITION: relative; HEIGHT: 100%; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #e5f7fc"0 for each sample. Peter Vila at Shepherd University has already volunteered to test our water samples in a lab. I just recently got funding from the Sleepy Creek Watershed Association and the West Virginia Conservation Agency. I also just learned that the max amount of e-coli you can have for an area is 100 mL of cfu for a one-time sample and for a six month sample is 400 mL of cfu. So far I have met with Dr.Vila once and we gave him my samples....I still need to go back to him on those results.

http://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/qa_ecoli_sickness.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreaks.html
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/ecoli.html#three
http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/ecoli.html
https://engineering.purdue.edu/SafeWater/watershed/ecoli.html
http://www.coastal-watershed.org/CWC_Library/Water_Quality/index.htm