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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Sep 8.
Published in final edited form as: ACS ES T Water. 2023 Aug 22;3(9):2849–2862. doi: 10.1021/acsestwater.3c00032

Table 2:

Mean, standard deviation, range and positivity of raw (Log10 transformed) SARS-CoV-2 RNA for University of Miami samples at the campus scale and for MD-WASD at the community scale.

Period of
Record
No.
samples
Mean
(Log10 gc/L)
Standard
deviation
(Log10 gc/L)
Range
(Log10 gc/L)
Positivity
UM, WG01 Sep. 20-Sep.22 102 4.36 4.74 BDLa - 5.48 76%
UM, WG02 Sep. 20-Sep.22 102 4.85 5.34 BDL - 6.21 84%
UM, WG0U Sep. 20-Sep.22 96 4.48 6.56 BDL - 5.99 71%
UM, WC0Dc (Composite) Jan. 21-Sep. 22 90 4.69b 4.94 BDL - 5.79 99%
UM, WC0Dg (Grab) Jan. 21-May. 22 71 4.70 5.03 2.70 – 5.89 100%
MD-WASD (Central) Mar.20-Sep. 22 170 5.62c 5.73 3.95 - 6.44 99%
MD-WASD (North) Mar.20-Sep. 22 155 5.66 5.72 3.75 - 6.48 99%
MD-WASD (South) Mar.20-Sep. 22 158 5.76 5.91 4.02 - 6.77 99%
*

BDL = Below Detection Limits. Detection limit of 100 gc/L or Log10 = 2 gc/L.

b

Using the mean flow rate for the CDWWTP and population served, the flow and population normalized mean genomic copies were computed as 2.23 x 105 gc/person or 5.4 Log10 gc/person.

c

Similar to “b” above, the flow and population normalized mean genomic copies were computed as 1.89 x 106 or 6.3 Log10 gc/person.