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National Water Quality Monitoring Network Design

The goal of the inventory activities is to define what should be adopted as a part of the network, identify areas that need to be added for better coverage and uniform procedures, and improve data access. It also aims to lay the groundwork for addressing other issues and future reports of the network's status.

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National Water Quality Monitoring Network Design

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  1. National Water Quality Monitoring NetworkDesign Inventory Activities

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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 Network’s status

  5. 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

  6. Ways to Find Monitoring Programs By Location By Ownership By Procedures By Content

  7. Find ThemBy Ownership • Inventories emphasizing program ownership find the large, well established agency efforts Location Procedures Content

  8. Find Them By Content • Programs that stress specific content, specific media, or specific purposes. These are often associated with research. Ownership Procedures Location

  9. 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

  10. By Location • Inventories by location stress diverse regional programs

  11. By Location • Location reveals small but important examples of

  12. Location-Based Case Studies • NW Atlantic Coastal Monitoring Consortium • Chesapeake Bay Program • Gulf of Mexico/ Mississippi Watershed • Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership

  13. The Inventory Roadmap Locational inventories can also focus on different zones, or levels Location

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Where to stop? • We can’t cover everything • We don’t want to collect data we don’t use

  17. 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 Network’s status

  18. Inventory Activities Thank you !

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