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DOGS from page one and Dunleavy asked for “Logan” and “Sable” to join the team. Although the dogs worked in more than half-a-dozen coastal towns in New Hampshire and Maine last year, this was their first job on a freshwater lake in New England. “We chose the dogs for their accuracy and cost,” Saunders said. Emily DiFranco of FB Environmental explained that in half-a-day the dogs checked several catch basins and outlets at Opechee Cove and another 50 catch basins at The Weirs, a workload that would have otherwise taken two days. The dogs are trained to the scent of human — and only human — fecal matter. Logan, who has the keener of the two noses, sits and Sable barks when they catch the smell. Instead of having to draw samples Environmental Canine Services K9 “Sable” indicates with his bark at every potential source, to handler Scott Reynolds that he has detected human fecal material in a water sample during a demonstration held at Endicott the dogs signal only the Rock Park in Weirs Beach Friday afternoon. (Karen Bobotas/for hot spots. “It’s just as the Laconia Daily Sun) important to eliminate areas as to identify them,” Scott Reynlected, placed in buckets and presented olds said. “That and the human focus to the dogs. At The Weirs, “Logan” and are what makes the dogs cost effec“Sable” demonstrated their prowess at tive,” he said. this technique several times. AlternaDiFranco explained that the altertively, the dogs can track contamination native is to collect lots of samples, all to its source. of which must be tested, not only to For instance, DiFranco recalled that determine the bacterial levels but also last year the dogs found a beach at Fort to distinguish human from animal Foster in Kittery, Maine laced with fecal sources, all of which is time-consumbacteria, which seemed to be seeping ing and very costly. into the sand. The dogs led them to a Scott Reynolds, who first scent trained marsh, which was also fouled. Beyond dogs while with a security firm, recalled the marsh they found two abandoned that after he became an environmental outhouses, which were promptly scientist his firm was tediously inspectremoved. This year, when they returned ing sewer lines and storm drains when to the beach, the dogs sensed no trace of his supervisor asked him “can you train fecal bacteria. “That was a real success dogs to smell poop?” He replied “why not “ story,” Di Franco said. and in 2007 he and “Sable” went to work. DiFranco said that the samples Two years later he and his wife Karen, taken from the hot spots identified by also a dog trainer, pooled their 35 years of the dogs yesterday would be tested experience into their own firm. and the results analyzed in a report The company operates in Sonoma, to city officials. “We want to prioritize California, where five dogs are on the the next steps in addressing the probpayroll, as well as in Michigan with lem,” she said. “Logan” and “Sable” and three dogs in Dunleavy said that any action by training. the city will depend on the findings Reynolds said the dogs can work in and recommendations of FB Environtwo ways. Water samples can be colmental. from preceding page added an average of 200,000 jobs a month since January, though the pace has slowed in the past three months to 175,000. Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, called the employment report “slightly negative,” in part because job growth for May and June was revised down. Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West, said it showed “a mixed labor market picture of continued improvement but at a still frustratingly slow pace.” The reaction from investors was muted. Stock averages closed with modest gains. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.6 percent from 2.71 percent — a sign that investors think the economy
ued help from the Fed. Beth Ann Bovino, senior economist at Standard & Poor’s, said she thinks the Fed will delay any slowdown in its $85 billion a month in bond purchases. “September seems very unlikely now,” she says. “I’m wondering if December is still in the cards.” Still, it’s possible that the lower unemployment rate, along with the hiring gains over the past year, could convince the Fed that the job market is strengthening consistently. Job growth has topped 140,000 each month for nearly a year, and unemployment has steadily declined. “While July itself was a bit disappointing, the Fed will be looking at the cumulative improvement,” said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist