Design Group Meeting

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Design Group Meeting

• Full National Water Quality Monitoring Council
• Overview Presented yesterday
• Extended context to bring to todays discussions
• Next steps

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YesterdaysOverview of Progress
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Design Workgroup

• Jeffrey L. Armstrong Orange County Sanitation
  Distric
• Tyler Baker TVA
• Jerad Bales USGS
• David Bayne Auburn University
• Joe Boyer Florida International University
• Charles Dvorsky Texas
• Don Dycus Tennessee Valley Authority
• Art Garceau Indiana
• George Harman Maryland
• Mike Hemsley Ocean.US
• Steven R. Johnston Galveston Bay Estuary
  Program
• Steve Jordan EPA
• Ron Klein Alaska
• Chris Knopp U.S. Forest Service

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Design Workgroup

• Alfred Korndoerfer, Jr. New Jersey
• Gail Mallard FED-U.S. Geological Survey
• Thomas C. Malone IOOS
• Dan McKenzie EPA
• Brian D. Melzian, Ph.D. EPA
• Tony Olsen EPA
• Steven G. Paulsen, Ph.D. EPA
• Robert P. Schreiber ASCE
• Gene Lynn Sisk Alabama
• GeneTurner Eric Swenson Louisiana State
  University
• Robert Ward Colorado State University
• Dave Whitall, Ph.D. NOAA

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Issues From Chapter 15

• Oxygen depletion
• Nutrient enrichment
• Toxic contamination
• Sedimentation
• Harmful algal blooms
• Habitat degradation
• Invasions by exotic species

• Status of coastal habitats
• Sources and quantities of marine debris
• Coral communities

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Conceptual models Can Help Structure

• Defined in some (often tacit) conceptual model

Sources
Causes
Issue
Primary Effects
Secondary Effects
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Exclusive Economic Zones
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National Estuary Programs
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NERR small blue in Delaware Bay
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NCA Estuary and Marine
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NPS Assateague Island (pink)
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HUC Regions
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HUC Subregions (4-digit) coastal
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HUC 6-digit coastal
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HUC 8-digit Gulf Coast
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HUC 8-digit rivers in one
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Swenson Matrix Coverage

• Exclusive Economic Zone
• Estuaries
• Ocean- State Territorial
• Rivers
• Level 1
• Level 2
• Level 3
• Level 4
• S. Jordans Parameter List

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Conclusion

• We have
• Large, diverse group
• Concurrence on objectives
• Stuctures are evolving
• Swenson Matrix
• Parameter list
• GIS coverages

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Extended Council Context for the NMN Design

• Management Questions
• Objectives
• Environments
• Resources of Primary Concern
• Stressors affecting resources
• Core Indicators List
• Specific locations for measurement of core
  indicators

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Management Questions

• What is the condition of the Nations surface,
  ground, estuarine, and coastal waters?
• Where, how, and why are water-quality conditions
  changing over time?
• Where are the problems related to water quality?
  What is causing the problems?
• Are programs to prevent or remediate problems
  working effectively?
• Are water-quality goals and standards being met?
• What research activities are needed to support
  these important resources?

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Objectives of the National Monitoring Network

• 1. Define status and trends of key water quality
  parameters and conditions on a nationwide basis.
• 2. Provide data relevant to determining whether
  goals, standards, and resource management
  objectives are being met, thus contributing to
  sustainable and beneficial use of coastal and
  inland water resources.
• 3. Provide data to identify and rank existing and
  emerging problems to help target more intensive
  monitoring, preventive actions, or remediation.
• 4. Provide data to support and define coastal
  oceanographic and hydrologic research, including
  influences of freshwater inflows.
• 5. Provide quality-assured data for use in the
  preparation of interpretive reports and
  educational materials.

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The Five Environments

• (Recognition that we cannot measure the entire
  resource)
• Major river systems and major tributaries of
  those primary drainages (HUC 8?)
• Estuaries
• Outlets of major estuaries and bays
• Near-shore coastal zone
• Regional aquifers

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Resources of Primary Concern

• Aquatic life in each of the components we have
  identified
• Human use of water (recognize that a national
  monitoring network will not address drinking
  water at the tap)

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Stressors Affecting Resources

• Oxygen depletion
• Nutrient enrichment
• Toxic contamination
• Sedimentation
• Harmful algal blooms
• Habitat degradation
• Invasions by exotic species

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Core Indicator List

• Indicators appropriate to each of the
• resources,
• waterbody types,
• objectives, and
• management questions

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Continuing Coordination

• Inventory Workgroup needs to confirm your
  approach to plan its work
• Methods and Comparability is now established, and
  seeks liaison

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Next Steps

• Discuss and link Management questions to the
  reporting envisioned in the 5 objectives
• Focusing on indicators for
• Resources of Primary Concern
• The Five Environments
• The Stressors Affecting Resources

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More Next Steps

• 3. Summarize progress for the May 12th SWAQ
  progress report
• 4. Prepare for the July Council Meeting

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