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

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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  1,609 miles of coastline

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.

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

SWAMP Strategy 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 Roundtable External Review

SWAMP Planning Matrix …Business Plan Water Body Type Beneficial Use Aquatic Life“Swimmable”“Fishable”“Drinkable” Wadeable Streams SWAMP Perennial Streams Survey (2005 – ongoing) SWAMP-funded monitoring summary ( ) Large Rivers EPA Flowing Waters Study ( ) SWAMP-funded monitoring summary ( ) Lakes USEPA Lakes Survey ( ) SWAMP-funded monitoring summary ( ) SWAMP Bioaccumulation Study ( ) Coastal Waters, Bays & Estuaries ASBS / SQOsClean Beach Program NA Wetlands CRAMNA 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…

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

Data Management  SWAMP-generated data in SWAMP database  Standardized data formats  Publicly accessible thru California Environmental Data Exchange Network Quality Assurance  Progressive and systems-based  Quality assurance systems: QA Program Plan, SOPs, etc. Tools for Data Comparability  available at  next steps: tiering QA

Conveying information  Identify target audiences  Develop communications strategy  communications coordinator  Develop signature products  newsletters, fact sheets, assessment reports, listserv, website  Accessible information to support sound decision-making

 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

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

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