national water quality monitoring network design inventory activities

National Water Quality Monitoring NetworkDesign

Inventory Activities

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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

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Inventory Activities

Goal: Inventory existing monitoring to allow the Design Workgroup to:Define what should be adopted as a part of the

NetworkDefine what needs to be added to build the Network

More coverage More uniform procedures Better data access

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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

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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

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Ways to Find Monitoring Programs

By OwnershipBy Location

By Procedures

By Content

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Find ThemBy Ownership

Inventories emphasizing program ownership find the large, well established agency efforts

Location

ProceduresContent

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Find Them By Content

Programs that stress specific content, specific media, or specific purposes. These are often associated with research.

Ownership

Location

Procedures

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Inventories based on common procedures focus on users of shared data systems, users of specialized instruments, or practitioners of specific approaches

By Their Use of Common Procedures

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By Location

Inventories by location stress diverse regional programs

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By Location

Location reveals small but important examples of

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Location-Based Case Studies

NW Atlantic Coastal Monitoring Consortium Chesapeake Bay Program Gulf of Mexico/ Mississippi Watershed Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring

Partnership

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Locational inventories can also focus on different zones, or levels

Location

The Inventory Roadmap

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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

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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

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Where to stop?

We can’t cover everything We don’t want to collect data we don’t use

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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

Inventory Activities

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