The Happydale Department of Environmental Services (DES) has inspected area beaches for pathogenic bacteria for over 20 years. Currently, DES monitors 50 freshwater beaches and 10 coastal beaches on a weekly basis. Program participation by owners of beaches that are open to the public is voluntary. Beach owners who choose not to participate in the Program are allowing the public to recreate on entirely unmonitored beaches. The DES now proposes adoption of the Adopt-a-Beach Program, designed to promote health and environmental education as well as public involvement in the protecting of public beaches. The program would require DES to collect biological data from all area beaches. It will also help reduce the number of beach advisories, whereby the public must be warned of dangerous conditions on certain beaches. On the basis of the public health professional’s statement, indicate in the table which of the following is most likely to result if the DES proposal is successfully adopted, and indicate which is most likely to result if the DES proposal is not adopted. Make only two selections, one in each column.

Adopted Not Adopted Statements
Incidents of waterborne disease will increase.
The number of beach advisories will increase.
DES will shift its principal priorities from monitoring to education.
There will be fewer, if any, entirely unmonitored beaches.
Some beaches will remain entirely unmonitored.