National Water Quality Monitoring Network Design

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National Water Quality Monitoring NetworkDesign

• Inventory Activities

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Inventory Workgroup

• Jerad Bales USGS
• Valerie Connor CA State Water Resources Control
  Board
• Joseph J. Delfino University of Florida
• Charles Dvorsky Texas
• Carlton Haywood Interstate Commission on the
  Potomac River Basin
• Dan Hoover University of Hawaii
• Letise Houser University of Delaware
• Robin S. Knox Water Quality Consulting, Inc.
• Seth Makepeace CSKT Hydrologist
• Ed Santoro DRBC
• Peter L. Sattler Interstate Environmental
  Commission
• Joe Schubauer-Berigan EPA
• Derek Smithee ASIWPCA
• Charles Spooner EPA
• Becky Weidman NEIWPCC
• Tamim Younos Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
  State University
• Marjorie Ernst NOAA

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Inventory Activities

• Goal Inventory existing monitoring to allow
  the Design Workgroup to
• Define what should be adopted as a part of the
  Network
• Define what needs to be added to build the
  Network
• More coverage
• More uniform procedures
• Better data access

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Inventory Activities

• Goal Inventory existing monitoring to allow
  the Steering Committee to
• Lay the groundwork for addressing other issues
• A process of affiliation with the Network
• Future reports of the Networks status

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The Ideal Inventory

• Covers monitoring that spans freshwater, coastal
  and marine resources
• Structured to cover four dimensions
• Ownership
• Location
• Content (and timing)
• Procedures (and approach)
• Prioritized Data Collections
• Collects data that are useful, but not burdensome
  to produce
• Illustrates thoroughness, but will never be
  complete

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Ways to Find Monitoring Programs
By Location
By Ownership
By Procedures
By Content
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Find ThemBy Ownership
Location
Procedures
Content

• Inventories emphasizing program ownership find
  the large, well established agency efforts

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Find Them By Content
Ownership
Procedures
Location

• Programs that stress specific content, specific
  media, or specific purposes. These are often
  associated with research.

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By Their Use of Common Procedures

• Inventories based on common procedures focus on
  users of shared data systems, users of
  specialized instruments, or practitioners of
  specific approaches

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By Location

• Inventories by location stress diverse regional
  programs

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By Location

• Location reveals small but important examples of

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Location-Based Case Studies

• NW Atlantic Coastal Monitoring Consortium
• Chesapeake Bay Program
• Gulf of Mexico/ Mississippi Watershed
• Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring
• Partnership

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The Inventory Roadmap
Location

• Locational inventories can also focus on
  different zones, or levels

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The Inventory Roadmap

• Workgroup Priorities A Tiered Approach
• Focuses first using
• Existing inventories
• Ownership - Major programs
• Locations - Case Studies
• Then focus on location of sites
• Then focus on
• Constituents monitored
• Procedures
• Metadata
• Data access

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The Status Today

• Draft Inventory Format
• Delaware River Basin
• Colorado and other State/Regional Water
  monitoring council Inventories
• Monitoring Council
• NOAA
• Existing inventories
• State monitoring programs
• Pope Report
• ASIWPCA Survey
• Long Island Sound
• NOAA
• Planned surveys
• National Estuary Programs

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Where to stop?

• We cant cover everything
• We dont want to collect data we dont use

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The Roadmap to the Future

• We believe that a Registry of Monitoring Programs
  will be a feature of the new Network
• Perhaps as a part of the process of affiliation
  with the Network
• Our Inventories can help format the Registry
• Network systems can help assemble data them
• Continuing inventories will support future
  reports of the Networks status

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Inventory Activities

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