WATER QUALITY: Analytical Methods--"Algal Growth Potential" by W. Thomas Shoaf and Bruce W. Lium


                                             March 27, 1975

QUALITY OF WATER BRANCH TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 75.17

Subject: WATER QUALITY: Analytical Methods--"Algal Growth
         Potential" by W. Thomas Shoaf and Bruce W. Lium

The subject provisional method for algal growth potential 
(AGP) is attachcd. The hydrobiological section of the 
Doraville Central Laboratory will accept samples for 
determination of AGP beginning July 1, 1975. A limited number 
of samples can be processed now by special arrangement with 
Don Leifeste, Chief of the Doraville Laboratory . The 
analytical cost for the AGP determination is $30.0O per 
sample. The Central Laboratory code is 55. A parameter code 
for storing analytical data in the WRD and STORET systems has 
been requested.

Questions or comments pertaining to the provisional Method 
should be directed to the Chief, Quality of Water Branch 
(Mail Stop 412, Reston, Virginia) . Quality af Water Branch 
Technical Memorandum No. 75.18 transmitted a briefing paper 
that explains the application of the method and its 
interpretation more fully.



                              R. J. Pickering

Attachment

WRD Distribution: A, B, FO-LS, PO


(Hard copy of attachment can be obtained from the Office of 
Water Quality.)