Normalization Approaches Used by ELC-Funded Jurisdictions for NWSS

This table was last updated on July 25, 2023. Please email nwbe@wef.org with any corrections.

Jurisdiction with FY 23 ELC NWSS funds	Do they have a public dashboard? (link provided if yes)	Normalization method used	Units used	If normalized, are raw data (copies/volume) also presented?
Alabama	No
Alaska	No
Arizona	Yes	None apparent	gene copies/L	N/A
Arkansas	No
California	Yes	PMMoV	SARS-CoV-2/PMMoV	Yes
Chicago	No dashboard, but do publish pdf reports	PMMoV for 8 sewersheds; also flow-weight values from WRRFs for an overall population-weighted sum of daily viral load	“normalized” gene copies/L	Not clear
Colorado	Yes	None apparent	gene copies/L	N/A
Connecticut	No
Delaware	No
Florida	Yes	None apparent	gene copies/L	N/A
Georgia	Yes, in the form of individual reports	Flow & population	gene copies/person (presumably per day)	No
Houston	Yes	Flow	log (gene copies/day)	No
Idaho	Yes, but no current data
Illinois	Yes	None apparent	gene copies/L (or log of that value)	N/A
Indiana	Yes	PMMoV	SARS-CoV-2/PMMoV	No
Iowa	No
Kansas	No
Kentucky	No
Louisiana	No
Maine	No dashboard, but does publish pdf reports	PMMoV	“Effective” copies/L	Yes
Maryland	Yes	None apparent	gene copies/L	N/A
Massachusetts	Yes	Unclear	“Effective” copies/L	No
Michigan	Yes	None apparent	gene copies/100 mL	N/A
Minnesota	Yes	None apparent	gene copies/L	N/A
Missouri	Yes	Flow	exponentially-weighted moving average of copies/day	No
Nebraska	No dashboard, but do publish pdf reports	Flow & population	gene copies/person (presumably per day)	No
Nevada	Yes	None apparent	gene copies/mL	N/A
New Hampshire	Yes	None apparent	gene copies/100 mL	N/A
New Jersey	No
New Mexico	No
New York	Yes	Not clear	Not given	N/A
North Carolina	Yes	Flow & population	Million copies/person (presumably per day)	No
Ohio	Yes	Flow	million gene copies/day (or the log of that value)	No
Oregon	Yes	Flow & population	log (gene copies/day/person)	No
Pennsylvania	No
Rhode Island	No
South Dakota	No
Tennessee	No
Utah	Yes	Flow & population	million gene copies/person/day (or the log of that value)	No
Virginia	Yes	Flow & population	trillion copies/day	Yes
Washington	Yes	Population		No
West Virginia	No
Wisconsin	Yes	Flow & population	million gene copies/person/day (or the log of that value)	No
Wyoming	Yes, but no current data	Flow & population	log (gene copies/person)	Yes (gene copies/mL)

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