SWAMP Achievements Report - The Future - SWAMP 2011 Commitments

Many of the programs and projects that had accomplishments in 2010 are multiple year efforts that will continue to have work products (and accomplishments) throughout the length of the study. Anticipated accomplishments for SWAMP directed and collaborative projects in 2011 include:

MONITORING

Continue to sponsor statewide programs and regional projects

• Bacterial Study (Central Valley Region)
• Publish Reference Site Study as Technical Report (San Francisco Bay Region)
• Develop a regional creek monitoring design in coordination with the SF Bay Regional Monitoring Coalition  (San Francisco Bay Region)

ASSESSMENTS

• Publish a detailed interpretive report and associated regional reports, as a follow-up to the Summary of Toxicity in California Waters: 2001 – 2009 report published in 2010
• Publish the Monitoring Spring Phytoplankton Bloom Progression In Suisun Bay study in a peer reviewed journal (San Francisco Bay Region)
• Publish the Ecological Condition Assessment of California's Perennial Wadeable Streams: Highlights from the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program's Perennial Streams Assessment (PSA) (2000-2007) report
  • Publish three Perennial Streams Assessment (PSA) Managers Memos highlighting aspects of the eight year report (Statewide)
    • Extent of California's Perennial and Non-Perennial Streams
    • Value of SWAMP's Statewide Monitoring Programs
    • Status of California's Wadeable Perennial Streams (2000-2007)
      
• Publish the Stream Pollutant Trend Monitoring at Integrator Sites Technical Report – First year data
• Publish the Healthy Streams Partnership Report

• Publish the Central Valley Safe-to-Swim Reports
• Publish the Sacramento Watershed Coordinated Monitoring Program Report
• Publish the Sacramento Watershed Coordinated Monitoring Program Year 1 Fact Sheet
• Publish the Central Valley Bacteria Source Identification Screening Study
• Publish the report on Contaminants in Sport Fish from the California Coast: Summary Report on Year One of a Two-Year Screening Survey)
  • Final report,
  • Fact Sheet,
  • Press release
  • Updated Safe to Eat Portal on the My Water Quality website.
• Publish the Stormwater Monitoring Coalition Year One Fact Sheet: Assessing the Health of Southern California Streams
• Updated Performance Outcome Measures for ecosystem health indicators: Bioassessment, Bioaccumulation, Sediment toxicity and Water toxicity

COMPARABILITY

• Create documentation for Bioassessment Data Submission templates
• Add bioassessment data checks to Online Data Checker
• Publish plans for a screening study to evaluate bioaccumulation of contaminants in sport fish found in California’s Rivers and Streams
  • Sampling and Analysis Plan (SAP)
  • Related Quality Assurance Program Plan (QAPP)
• Establish minimum data elements and data format requirements for CEDEN and Integrated Report submissions
• BeachWatch database (Southern California Coastal Water Research Project - SCCWRP)

COORDINATION

• Continue to support existing partnerships
• Forge new partnerships as appropriate
• Publish integrated report by SWAMP, the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in the San Francisco Estuary and the Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program, on coordinated monitoring of sport fish along the California coast

COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH

• Upgrade CEDEN with new data types and set up to feed “My Water Quality” Portals
• Create and release Healthy Streams Web Portal
• Draft SWAMP Communications Strategy
• Deliver additional Webinars
• Produce and circulate Quarterly Monitor Newsletters
• Release Citizen Monitoring Directory
  
  
  
  
  

Questions and Comments

Inquiries can be directed to the State Water Board, Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP).