SWAMP's Clean Water Team (CWT) – Citizen Monitoring of the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program

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You can keep current on California's citizen monitoring activities (workshops, grants, news, etc.) by subscribing to the "Citizen Monitoring Program/Clean Water Team" email list.

Volunteers & Water Board Staff checking the water quality of a lake. (click on image to enlarge)

Highlights

• California Water Quality Monitoring Council 'My Water Quality' New Website - Is is Safe to Swim in Our Waters?'
• California Water Quality Monitoring Council Collaboration Network
• CWT Tool Box for Citizen Monitoring Programs
• CWT Mission & Values Poster
• Read the Clean Water Team "Currents" Newsletters! - last updated Summer 2006
• CWT Guidance Compendium - Water Quality Monitoring Manuals
  • Some of the fact sheets in Section 3 are offered in Spanish
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) National Newsletter of Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring.
  • "The Volunteer Monitor" newsletter facilitates the exchange of ideas, monitoring methods, and practical advice among volunteer environmental monitoring groups across the nation.
  • Selected Archives of the USEPA "Volunteer Monitor"
• Funding Opportunities
• Contact the Clean Water Team:
  • email: cwtmail@waterboards.ca.gov
  • specific regions, training, Website...
• Mission of the Clean Water Team
• General Information on Citizen Monitoring
• Community Based Watershed Programs Related to Citizen Monitoring
• SWRCB Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) - The program that integrates existing water quality monitoring in the State.
• Contact SWAMP Staff
  

Resource Material

• Find a Citizen Monitoring Organization in Your Region
• CWT Guidance Compendium (Water Quality Monitoring Manuals)
• Clean Water Team Resource Materials & Related Websites
• State of California Central Portal for Watershed Information
• Report Water Quality Streambed Polluting to California Department of Fish & Games CalTip Line - includes: leaks, spills, dumping, sedimentation, etc.
• Aquatic Invasive Species
• Channel Processes: Stream Channel Succession

Additional Resource Links

• Shattering the Myths (A California Volunteer Monitoring Success Story)
• U.S. EPA Nonpoint Source News - Notes
• Environmental Education
• Nonpoint Source Pollution: NPS Guidance & Management Practices for Preventing Polluted Runoff
• US EPA's Ten Top Watershed Lessons Learned
• Southern California Wetlands Recovery
• Litter Butt Website
  

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Workshops and Events

Calendars

• State Water Board Watershed Management
• Water Education Foundation Calendar of Events
• California Environmental Education Interagency Network (CEEIN) Calendar
• Sunny Walter's California Nature Festivals
• California Nature Events & Festivals

Training

• California Aquatic Bioassessment Workshops (2003-2009), including Citizen Monitoring Presentations
  
• Project Wet Facilitator Training: Various dates and locations in California
• U.S. EPA's Watershed Academy
• Help for Non-Profits from the Placer (County) School for Adults: Online Catalog
• Northwest Environmental Training Center
• The Watershed Project Workshops: Environmental Education for Bay Area Educators & Residents
  

Other Events

Notice to Website users:  Effective March 1st, 2008, we will no longer be updating or web posting ‘new’ individual events on this webpage except for World Water Monitoring Day updates, Clean Water Team associated ‘Snapshot’ water quality monitoring events, and Water Board sponsored conferences.

Please see the above webpage section of (updated) ‘Workshops and Events" Calendars and the Training sections for these events in the future. There are also Community "water-related" events published on the Water Board's Event Calendar.

Recent Events & Conferences

Please note: Updates discontinued in late 2008 due to staffing cuts

(Updated 2/22/10)