Water quality measurements at 3 beach sites in the Great Lakes from the summer of 2015: Edgewater Beach, OH; Grant Park, WI; Washington Park, MI. Data include associated environmental parameters (meteorological and hydrologic). Microbial data include cultured fecal indicator bacteria, coliphage, and molecular marker (qPCR) measurements. Detailed description of data collection activities can be found in Wanjugi et al. 2018: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004313541830349X. Portions of this dataset are inaccessible because: It is included. They can be accessed through the following means: ScienceHub. Format: Excel File with a "MetaData" tab describing the data columns.

This dataset is associated with the following publication: Cyterski, M., O. Shanks, P. Wanjugi, B. McMinn, A. Korajkic, K. Oshima, and R. Haugland. Bacterial and Viral Fecal Indicator Predictive Modeling Using Gradient Boosting at Three Great Lakes Recreational Beach Sites. WATER RESEARCH. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA, 223: 118970, (2022).