USGS/COE Proposal for Long-Term Sediment & Water Quality Monitoring Network

BUILDING STRONG ® Proposal  A Conceptual Proposal to Establish a Long-Term Suspended- Sediment and Solid-Phase Chemistry Monitoring Network in the Mississippi River Basin to Generate System-wide Sediment and Sediment-Associated Chemical Budgets and to Determine Temporal Trends  Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey - Ad Hoc Committee on Sediment Data, Monitoring and Trends in the Missouri/Mississippi River System  POC’s ► USGS – John R. Gray, Reston, VA ► COE – Chuck Shadie, Vicksburg, MS

BUILDING STRONG ® Objectives  Establish quantifiably accurate suspended-sediment budgets for the entire MRB including the mainstem, subbasins, and major tributaries; and  Using appropriate historical data, estimate annual fluxes to establish long-term temporal trends in suspended-sediment concentrations, chemistry, and fluxes.  Process historical data for trend determinations within known error limits and to establish baseline conditions, and  Establish a consistent and coherent long-term monitoring network that will permit, at a minimum, the determination of site-specific mean daily discharges and suspended-sediment concentrations for the determination of suspended-sediment and sediment-associated chemical fluxes at various levels of spatial and temporal resolution.

BUILDING STRONG ® Actions to Date  John Gray, USGS presented initial concept to HQ-level USACE/USGS Coordination Meeting in July 09. Senior Leaders from both agencies asked that a proposal for the monitoring network be developed  John Gray and others drafted proposal paper.  USGS contacted MVD requesting meeting to discuss proposal  COE/USGS mtg held at MVD on 22 Sep 09. Attendees incl NWD & ERDC. ► General agreement that monitoring network and associated program was needed. ► Concern that existing budgets could not support this program. Need a new authority and funding source that does not take from existing funds  John Gray, USGS presented draft proposal to USACE/USGS Coordination Meeting on 6 Oct 09. Senior Leaders supported concept and requested a more detailed proposal (scope and costs) for next Coordination Meeting.  Meeting held in Kansas City on 3 Nov 09 with US EPA, NRCS, NWS, USGS, COE and others to discuss the proposal and determine if their agencies might support it. General agreement on benefits of monitoring network. Not sure they could support financially.

BUILDING STRONG ® Next Steps  Expand scope of proposal to include range of magnitude costs for long-term monitoring program  Include short-, medium-, and long-term benefits of such a program  Identify basic “skeleton” of stations needed for which full monitoring would be conducted  Present Detailed Conceptual Proposal to USACE/USGS Coordination Meeting – Feb 10  Look for Senior Leadership to support the proposed program and seek authority and funding sources

BUILDING STRONG ® Potential Monitoring Sites  Upper Mississippi River Basin ► Minnesota Jordan, MN ( ) ► Mississippi Hastings, MN ( ) ► Mississippi Clinton, IA ( ) ► Iowa Wapello, IA ( ) ► Illinois Valley City, IL ( )  Missouri River Basin ► Yellowstone River nr Sydney, MT ( ) ► Missouri River nr Culbertson, MT ( ) ► Missouri River bl Garrison Dam, ND ( ) ► Missouri Pierre, SD ( ) ► Missouri Yankton, SD ( ) ► James Scotland, SD ( ) ► Missouri Omaha, NE ( ) ► Platte River nr Louisville, NE ( ) ► Kansas DeSoto, KS ( ) ► Missouri Hermann, MO ( )

BUILDING STRONG ® Potential Monitoring Sites  Ohio River Basin ► Ohio Bentwood nr Wheeling WV ( ) ► Kanawaha Winfield, WV ( ) ► Ohio Greenup, KY ( ) ► Great Miami New Baltimore, OH ( ) ► Kentucky Lockport, KY ( ) ► Ohio Cannelton Dam, Cannelton, IN ( ) ► Wabash Mt. Carmel IL ( ) ► Wabash New Harmony, IN ( ) ► Cumberland Grand Rivers, KY ( ) ► Cumberland Smithland, KY ( ) ► Tennessee South Pittsburg, TN ( ) ► Tennessee Paducah, KY ( ) ► Ohio Grand Chain, IL ( )

BUILDING STRONG ® Potential Monitoring Sites  Middle Mississippi River Basin ► Mississippi Grafton, IL ( ) ► Mississippi St. Louis, MO ( ) ► Mississippi Thebes, IL ( ) ► Mississippi ? (Between Cairo and Memphis to assess Ohio River contributions) ► Mississippi Vicksburg, MS ( ) ► White DeValles Bluff, AR ( ) ► Arkansas Tulsa, OK ( ) ► Arkansas D. Terry Dam bl Little Rock, AR ( ) ► Yazoo Shell Bluff nr Morgan City, MS ( )

BUILDING STRONG ® Potential Monitoring Sites  Lower Mississippi River Basin ► Old River Knox Landing, LA ( ) ► Red Alexandria, LA ( ) ► Mississippi Tarbert Landing, LA ( ) ► Mississippi St. Francisville, LA ( ) ► Mississippi Baton Rouge, LA ( ) ► Mississippi Belle Chasse, LA ( ) ► Mississippi Venice, LA ( ) ► Atchafalaya Simmesport, LA ( ) ► Atchafalaya Melville, LA ( ) ► Wax Lake Calumet, LA ( ) ► Lower Atchafalaya Morgan City, LA ( )