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SWAMP – Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program

QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL

A quality assurance (QA) plan is a key planning document that summarizes a program’s QA and quality control (QC) systems. Because SWAMP’s original QA plan was recently updated, there are two documents currently available. To eliminate confusion, the documents should be implemented as follows:

  • Division of Financial Assistance Use
    • Grandfather Clause: Projects funded by SWAMP budget allocations for fiscal year (FY) 2008-2009 and later must follow the requirements of the 2008 Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program Quality Assurance Program Plan (QAPrP). Established projects and those that prefer to be Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program- (SWAMP-) comparable may also choose to operate under this document.
    • Projects already funded by pre-FY 2008-2009 SWAMP budget allocations may continue to completion under the 2002 Quality Assurance Management Plan for the State of California's Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (QAMP).

First Edition 2002 Quality Assurance Management Plan

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  • Appendices for 2002 QAMP

    Appendix A - SWAMP Program Contact Information, Programmatic Organization, and Agency/Organization Responsibilities.
      Appendix B - SWAMP Workplans for FY 02-03 and FY 03-04
      Appendix C - Data Acceptability Criteria, Target Reporting Limits, Handling Requirements
      Appendix D - SWAMP Field Collection Standard Operating Procedures
      Appendix E - SWAMP Field Data Measurement SOP's
      Appendix F - SWAMP Toxicity Testing SOP's
      Appendix G - Biological Assessment and Benthic Infaunal Community Assessment
      Appendix H - Health and Safety Measures Minimum Guidance
      Appendix I  - Performance Evaluation Audits Guidance
      Appendix J - INTERIM SWAMP Information Management System Plan

  • Appendix A

SWAMP Program Contact Information, Programmatic Organization, and Agency/Organization Responsibilities
   
  • Appendix B

SWAMP Work Plans
   - FY 02-03 through FY 07-08 or equivalent
   
  • Appendix C

Data Acceptability Criteria, Target Reporting Limits, Sample Handling Requirements (cover page)

Data Acceptability Criteria Tables:
   - Conventional Constituents in Water
   - Volatile Organic Analytes in Water
   - Synthetic Organic Compounds in Water
   - Trace Metals in Water
   - Monomethyl Mercury in Water
   - Organic Compounds in Tissue and Sediment;
      Semi-Volatiles and Volatiles in Sediment only
   - Trace Metals in Tissue and Sediment
   - Monomethyl Mercury in Tissue and Sediment
   - Sediment Total Organic Carbon and Sediment Grain Size
   - Water Quality Samples for Bacteria-Pathogen Indicators
   - Benthic Invertebrates
   - Toxicity Testing Samples

Target Reporting Limits
   - Conventional Water Quality Constituents
   - Trace Metals
   - Synthetic Organic Analytes

Sample Handling Requirements
   - Tables for all Analytes, all Media

Water Quality Goals Compendium Information
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  • Appendix D

SWAMP Field Collection Standard Operating Procedures (cover page)

Site Selection and Reconnaissance
   - Guidelines
   - Reconnaissance Form

Tissue Sample Collection SOPs
   - Standard Operating Procedure
   - Bioaccumulation COC Form
   - Dissection Sheet

Water Sample Collection SOPs
   - Field Collection of Water Samples
   - Citizen Monitoring Protocol
   - Region 3 Protocol
   - Region 6 Protocol
   - USGS NAWQA Protocol
   - USGS Clean Hand/Dirty Hand Techniques
   - Ultra Clean Sample Filtration

Bed Sediment Sample Collection SOPs
   - SWAMP Protocol
   - USGS NAWQA Protocol

Additional Files
   - Proper Waste Disposal
   - Field Data Sheets
   - Chain of Custody Blank Forms
   - Worksheet for Calculating Latitude and Longitude
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  • Appendix E

SWAMP Field Data Measurement SOP's (cover page)
   - Field Equipment List
   - Field Measurements Procedures

SWAMP Field Instrument Calibration and Maintenance SOP's
   - Multiparameter Instrument Calibration and Maintenance
   - Hydrolab Multiprobe Calibration/Maintenance Log
   - YSI Multiprobe Calibration/Maintenance Log
   
  • Appendix F

SWAMP Toxicity Testing SOP's (cover page)

Summary of Methods Used
   - Summary of Methods Used for Toxicity Testing

Toxicity Testing SOP's

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  • Appendix G

Biological Assessment and Benthic Infaunal Community Assessment (cover page)

Bioassessment QAPPs and SOPs
   - Department of Fish and Game

   - Region 6 SNARL
         - Algae Chl Summary
         - Biomonitoring Data and Designs
         - CPOM-FPOM and Periphyton Protocols
         - Lab Processing and ID Log
         - Physical Habitat Summary
         - Sample Processing-ID SOPs
         - Stream Algae AFDM Data Sheet
         - Stream Form 200X
         - Stream Invertebrate ID Data Sheet
         - Stream Invertebrate Sampling Protocol
         - Stream Organic Matter AFDM Data Sheet
         - Stream Physical Habitat Survey SOP
         - UC SNARL SWAMP Bioassessment QAPP
         - Water Chemistry Protocol

   - UCD ATL
         - UCD ATL Biological Assessment QAPP

   - USGS NAWQA
         - SOP link

Benthic Infaunal Community Assessment
   - Laboratory Analysis
   - Sample Collection

 
  • Appendix H

Health and Safety Measures Minimum Guidance (cover page)
   - Recommended Minimum Health and Safety Guidance for Field Activities

   
  • Appendix I

Performance Evaluation Audits Guidance (cover page)
   - QA Performance Evaluations of Field Data Measurements and Field Sample
     Collection Methods
   
  • Appendix J
    (updated April 2009)

INTERIM SWAMP Information Management System Plan
(cover page)
   - Database Management Systems
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For technical questions on either QA Plan, please contact the State Water Resources Control Board Quality Assurance Officer Bill Ray (email) or at (916) 341-5583