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Creating Credible Community-based Stream Monitoring
Programs
Julie VastineSeptember 26, 2018
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Overview
• ALLARM introduction• US Stream Monitoring History
• Credibility ingredients• Regional partnership example• Monitoring mantras
• Q&A
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ALLARM Introduction
ALLARM educates communities to use science as a tool to investigate the
health of their streams and to use the data they generate for aquatic
protection and restoration efforts.
www.dickinson.edu/allarm
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US Volunteer Monitoring
• Oldest program 1968• 48 out of 50 states have active programs• Challenge: Each state has a different
approach
Clean Water Act (1987 addition):“assemble and evaluate all existing and readily available water quality-related data and information.” Including data “for which water quality problems have been reported by local, state, or federal agencies; members of the public; or academic institutions.”
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Power of Volunteers
• Local connection, buy-in, impact• Local expertise• More boots on the ground • Local eyes, ears, voices of waterways
http://volunteermonitoring.org/
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Ingredients in Credible Programs
1. Study design2. Quality Assurance Project
Plan (QAPP)3. Monitoring methods
manual (Standard Operating Procedures, SOPs);
4. Volunteer engagement –recruit, train, certify, and retain
5. Evaluation and assessment
Volunteer Training and Certification
Quality Assurance Project Plan
Volunteer Recruitment and
Retention
Study DesignMonitoring Methods Manual
Evaluation and Assessment
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Role of equipment testing, etc…
• Check out the National Water Quality Monitoring Council’s Webinar from January 2018.
• https://acwi.gov/monitoring/webinars/index.html
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Matching appropriate data with policy goals
Water monitoring one of the key examples
www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/clearing_the_path_eli_report.pdf
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Monitoring Best Practices: Study Design
Concern or Question Technical Assistance - Study Design/QAPP/Training
Data collection & quality verification
Data Use Data interpretationProgram evaluation
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Study Design Tools
https://www.rivernetwork.org/resource/river-monitoring-study-design-workbook/
www.Dickinson.edu/allarm
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Tools – EPA VolMon QAPP
For more information, see: The Volunteer Monitor’s Guide to Quality Assurance Project Plans.
EPA 841-B-96-003. September 1996. https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-06/documents/vol_qapp.pdf
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Regional Example
• Chesapeake Bay Watershed• 64,000 mi2 or 103,000 km2
• 6 States (Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, West Virginia) & Washington DC
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Chesapeake Monitoring CooperativeA partnership that aims to provide technical, logistical, and outreach support for the integration of volunteer-based and nontraditional water quality and benthic macroinvertebrate monitoring data into the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partnership.
Cooperative AgreementCMC development team partners & service providers
Participating Jurisdictions
USEPA Grant #CB96334901
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Chesapeake Bay Program Monitoring
Sites
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Community Survey
Sent to 600+ entities:• General Information• Monitoring Program Overview
(Where? Why?)• Monitoring Program Design
(How?)• Data Use and Storage
~ 120 groups responded
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Chesapeake Bay Program Monitoring
Sites + Volunteer &
Nontraditional monitoring
sites
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CMC Tiered Framework – Data Use Suggestions
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Integrated tools - QAPPs
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Connect QAPP to Standard Operating Procedures
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Connect SOPs to Database & Metadata
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Example: Otsego County Conservation AssociationMonitoring Goals• Establish a baseline understanding of six
watersheds in Otsego County• Engage community members in monitoring• Identify sites for potential BMPs and
restoration• Use data locally and support CBP data needs
TIERS Methodology
1 Macroinvertebrates
Nitrate-Nitrogen, Orthophosphate, pH, WaterClarity
2 Conductivity, Dissolved Oxygen, Water Temperature
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Monitoring Mantras
• All data of known quality have use
• Must match intended use with quality of data collected
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Thank you! Questions?
Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM)dickinson.edu/ALLARM | @ALLARMwaterJulie Vastine | [email protected]