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California’s Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program SWAMP Today

California’s Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program SWAMP Today. Emilie L. Reyes November 29, 2007. The Challenge: CA. 190 hydrologic units (655 hydrologic sub-areas) 211,000+ miles rivers and streams Over 10,000 lakes (1.6+ million acres) Over 1,300,000+ acres of bays and estuaries

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California’s Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program SWAMP Today

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  1. California’s Surface Water Ambient Monitoring ProgramSWAMP Today Emilie L. Reyes November 29, 2007

  2. The Challenge: CA • 190 hydrologic units (655 hydrologic sub-areas) • 211,000+ miles rivers and streams • Over 10,000 lakes (1.6+ million acres) • Over 1,300,000+ acres of bays and estuaries • 1,609 miles of coastline

  3. SWAMP • The Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) is a relatively new program at the Water Boards, proposed in a Report to the Legislature in November 2000, and initiated in 2001.

  4. SWAMP • SWAMP’s vision is that water quality be comprehensively measured to protect beneficial uses, and to evaluate our protection and restoration efforts.

  5. 10 Elements of a State Monitoring & Assessment Program: • Strategy • Objectives • Design • Indicators • Quality Assurance • Data Management • Data Analysis and Assessment • Reporting • Peer Review • Program Support and Infrastructure SWAMP Strategy SWAMP Roundtable External Review

  6. SWAMP Planning Matrix • Monitor, assess, report on California’s water quality at regional and statewide scales • Create common framework for coordinating monitoring efforts • Develop tools (including biological indicators) • Build partnerships, leverage efforts… …Business Plan

  7. Address statewide monitoring needs • Bioaccumulation in lakes and reservoirs • Random sampling of 50 lakes, reservoirs • Targetted sampling of 200 most popular lakes, reservoirs • Aquatic life use in perennial streams • Random sampling ~100 sites; 5 ecoregions • Targetted integrator site long-term trend monitoring • Pyrethroids in urban creeks Address regional monitoring needs • Regional monitoring programs in each region • Bioassessment Program • Reference condition program • Benthic Macroinvertebrate IBIs, O/E • Periphyton indicator development

  8. Data Management • SWAMP-generated data in SWAMP database • Standardized data formats • Publicly accessible thru California Environmental Data Exchange Network http://bdat.ca.gov Quality Assurance • Progressive and systems-based • Quality assurance systems: QA Program Plan, SOPs, etc. • Tools for Data Comparability • available at www.waterboards.ca.gov/swamp • next steps: tiering QA

  9. Conveying information • Identify target audiences • Develop communications strategy • communications coordinator • Develop signature products • newsletters, fact sheets, assessment reports, listserv, website • http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/swamp/reports.html Accessible information to support sound decision-making

  10. Data Centers and California Environmental Data Exchange Network • Moss Landing Labs, SFEI, SCCWRP, UCDavis, DWR • Assessments • bays and estuaries/SQO, estuarine wetlands/CRAM • Surveys • Areas of Special Biological Significance, USEPA Lake Survey • Monitoring Council • Continued intra-agency coordination

  11. …the road goes on forever and the party never ends… (Robert Earl Keene, Album: The Road Goes on Forever)

  12. More on SWAMP at: www.waterboards.ca.gov/swamp.ca.gov Questions? Emilie L. Reyes 916-341-5556; ereyes@waterboards.ca.gov

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