National Water Quality Monitoring Network Design Inventory Activities

National Water Quality Monitoring Network Design Inventory Activities

Inventory Workgroup n n n n n Jerad Bales Valerie Connor Joseph J. Delfino Charles Dvorsky Carlton Haywood Dan Hoover Letise Houser Robin S. Knox Seth Makepeace Ed Santoro Peter L. Sattler Joe Schubauer-Berigan Derek Smithee Charles Spooner Becky. Weidman Tamim Younos Marjorie Ernst USGS CA State Water Resources Control Board University of Florida Texas Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin University of Hawaii University of Delaware Water Quality Consulting, Inc. CSKT Hydrologist DRBC Interstate Environmental Commission EPA ASIWPCA EPA NEIWPCC Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University NOAA 2

Inventory Activities n 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 n More uniform procedures n Better data access n 3

Inventory Activities n Goal: Inventory existing monitoring to allow the Steering Committee to: ¨ Lay the groundwork for addressing other issues: A process of “affiliation” with the Network n Future reports of the Network’s status n 4

The Ideal Inventory Covers monitoring that spans freshwater, coastal and marine resources n Structured to cover four dimensions: n Ownership ¨ Location ¨ Content (and timing) ¨ Procedures (and approach) ¨ n Prioritized Data Collections: Collects data that are useful, but not burdensome to produce n Illustrates thoroughness, but will never be complete n 5

n io at c o y. L B Ways to Find Monitoring Programs s e ur By e n w O y ip h rs B t en ed c o Pr

Find Them By Ownership Location Content n Procedures Inventories emphasizing program ownership find the large, well established agency efforts 7

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

By Their Use of Common Procedures n Inventories based on common procedures focus on users of shared data systems, users of specialized instruments, or practitioners of specific approaches 9

By Location n Inventories by location stress diverse regional programs 10

By Location n Location reveals small but important examples of 11

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

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

The Inventory Roadmap n Workgroup Priorities – A Tiered Approach ¨ Focuses first using n Existing inventories n Ownership - Major programs n Locations - Case Studies ¨ Then focus on location of sites ¨ Then focus on n Constituents monitored n Procedures ¨ ¨ Metadata Data access 14

The Status Today n Draft Inventory Format n n n Delaware River Basin Colorado and other State/Regional Water monitoring council Inventories Monitoring Council NOAA Existing inventories n State monitoring programs ¨ ¨ n n n Pope Report ASIWPCA Survey Long Island Sound NOAA Planned surveys n National Estuary Programs 15

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

The Roadmap to the Future n 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 17

Inventory Activities Thank you !