My Water Quality Web Portals – Contact Us
The California Water Quality Monitoring Council, in coordination with several expert stakeholder work groups, is developing a set of theme-based web portals, responding to questions commonly asked by decision-makers and the public.
- My Water Quality Portals Fact Sheet - August 2011
- Help Us Make This Better
Portal Development
Web portal development is concentrating on the following theme areas, with web portals to be released one at a time, in the following order:
- Is It Safe to Swim in Our Waters?
- Initial focus on coastal, bay, and estuarine beaches
- Released July 28, 2009
- Is It Safe to Eat Fish and Shellfish from Our Waters?
- Initial focus on sport fish
- Released December 8, 2009
- Are Our Wetland Ecosystems Healthy?
- Released March 16, 2010
- Are Our Stream, River and Lake Ecosystems Healthy?
- Initial focus on streams and rivers
- Estimated release very soon!
- Are Our Tidepool Ecosystems Healthy?
- Estimated release in Spring 2012
- Is Our Water Safe to Drink?
- Initial focus on water at the tap, and source water from surface waters and groundwater
- Estimated release in late 2012
- Are Our Estuary Ecosystems Healthy?
- Initial focus on San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary
- Estimated release in late 2012
Please be patient as we roll-out this information. It will take time before all of these themes and sub-theme areas are fully developed. And expect more portals to come in the future!
Help Us Make This Better
We are continually working to improve the quality of the information presented in these web portals and the underlying water quality monitoring and assessment programs. We know that the initial efforts are not perfect. Please help us to make them better.
- Contact the Monitoring Council Coordinator with your comments and suggestions.
- Attend a meeting of the California Water Quality Monitoring Council.
- Get involved in one or more of the expert stakeholder work groups.
