Web Portal Partners

The California Water Quality Monitoring Council is working with a number of expert stakeholder work groups to develop theme-based water quality web portals.  Several additional organizations actively work with the Monitoring Council to provide water quality information.  These web portals also feature information from a number of other agencies and organizations. Theme-Specific Work Groups

• Is our water safe to drink?
  • Groundwater
    • Groundwater Ambient Monitoring Program (GAMA) of the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB)
• Is it safe to swim in our waters?
  • Ocean, bay and estuarine beaches
    • California Beach Water Quality Workgroup (BWQW)
    • Central/Northern California Ocean and Bay Water Quality Monitoring Group
• Is it safe to eat fish and shellfish from our waters?
  • Sport fish
    • Bioaccumulation Oversight Group (BOG) of the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP)
• Are our aquatic ecosystems healthy?
  • Wetlands
    • California Wetland Monitoring Workgroup (CWMW)
  • Streams, Rivers & Lakes
    • Healthy Streams Partnership (coming soon !)
  • Estuaries - initially focusing on the SF Bay-Delta Estuary
    • California Estuary Monitoring Workgroup
  • Ocean Waters
    • Tide Pools
      • Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network (MARINe)
• What stressors and processes affect our water quality?

Organizations Actively Working with the Monitoring Council

• Heal the Bay
• San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI)
• Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP)
• State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB)
• Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP)

Other Sources of Portal Information

• California Local Environmental Health Agencies
• California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG)
• California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
• Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
• Region 9, San Francisco
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)