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New Monitoring Program
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The Mobile Bay NEP is pleased to
announce participation in the
National Atmospheric Deposition Program.
In June 2001, the Mobile Bay NEP began operation of two wet deposition
mercury and nutrient monitors. It is the State of
Alabama’s first to measure pollution deposited through rainwater. The
data gathered within the Mobile Bay NEP study area will be incorporated
with information from some 250 monitoring sites from Alaska and the
continental United States to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Regionally, only three other sites are part of the NADP. Only two other
monitoring locations are within states bordering Alabama and of close
proximity for data correlation. A truly collaborative effort, monitoring
partners include the Mobile Bay NEP, the Alabama Department of
Environmental Management, and Mobile and Baldwin Counties. The Mobile Bay
NEP purchased the equipment and is funding the initial sample analyses
through a federal grant. Expansion of the program will occur through
monetary allocations in the Coastal Impact Assistance Program during
2002. The Mobile Bay NEP is the only estuary program on the Gulf Coast
participating in the NADP.
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