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SWAMP. Statewide Monitoring Programs Regional Monitoring Programs Infrastructure & Tools Comparability. Statewide Monitoring Programs. Bioassessment Monitoring Program Aquatic life in streams Stream Pollution Trends Monitoring Program
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SWAMP Statewide Monitoring Programs Regional Monitoring Programs Infrastructure & Tools Comparability
Statewide Monitoring Programs • Bioassessment Monitoring Program • Aquatic life in streams • Stream Pollution Trends Monitoring Program • Status and trends in contamination in rivers and streams • Bioaccumulation Monitoring Program • Fishable in lakes, coastal waters, & rivers and streams
Regional Monitoring Programs • Target information gaps • Responsive to regional and local concerns • Higher spatial and temporal scale • Scale matches management needs • Measuring success and long-term trends • Integrating/Coordinating/Partnering/Leveraging • Monitoring resources for “unleveraged” areas • Piloting innovations
SWAMP Infrastructure & Tools • Quality assurance • Standard operating procedures • Data management • Bioassessment & physical habitat • Water quality: field measurements, chemistry & toxicity • Tissue chemistry
Comparability SWAMP Database • SWAMP • MQOs • Data Formats • Non-SWAMP Water Board Programs • NPDES: Stormwater, POTWs • Irrigated Lands • TMDL • Water Quality Certification (401) • Grant Projects CEDEN • Other State/Federal Agencies • DWR • DPR • DFG • USBR • USGS
Draft Toxicity Policy • Requires the use of U.S. EPA’s new statistical method, the Test of Significant Toxicity (TST) • Proposes numeric chronic and acute toxicity objectives to protect aquatic life uses in all inland surface waters, enclosed bays, and estuaries in California
Who needs to Monitor • All Point Source Dischargers to Surface Water • “Channelized Dischargers” • (subject to Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program) • Most already conduct toxicity testing • Certain Storm Water Dischargers (primarily MS4s) • Most already conduct toxicity testing
Monitoring Freqency • NPDES > 1 mgd • Monthly tests • NPDES < 1 mgd • Quarterly • Stormwater • 4 times per year • Channelized Disgargers • 4 times per year
Draft Toxicity Policy • Numeric effluent limits would apply to NPDES dischargers
Draft Toxicity Policy • Next Steps: Public Workshop was held on November 16th. At the workshop the Board extended the comment period for 60 days. The comment deadline is January 21, 2011. • After the comment period, staff will respond to comments and meet with stakeholders. • During the comment period, staff will solicit data from a subset of major and minor NPDES permittees and use the data to “test drive” the policy. • A second workshop/hearing will be held in Spring 2011