National Water Quality Monitoring Network Design

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 !