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Water Quality Monitoring VolunteerTraining Presentation

Bi-monthly Training for New Volunteers

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Todays Agenda

Introduction presentation 8:30 - 9:15

Hands-on equipment training 9:15 -10:00

Visiting Sites 10:15 - 2:00 or 2:30

Samples back to Coastkeeper 2:30 / 3:00 Coastkeeper processes samples in lab: bacteria / nutrients

Data processing

Publish on website

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Incaseyoudidnotknow

SanDiegoCoastkeeperis1. largest

professional

environmental

NGO

2. Weprotecttheregionswaters

3. Wedo

this

by

education,

empowerment,

&

advocacy

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The Water Quality Monitoring Program

Goal

To provide scientifically defensible WQ data To fill-in data gaps to aid regulatory decision making

Education & fun!

Achieved by Building a well trained corps of citizen scientists

Ensuring our data collection and analysis produces high quality data

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Todays Training

Goal:

1. Learn some science2. Collect usable data

Achieved by teaching you basics of:i. Scienceii. Coastkeeper S.O.P.

iii. Policy

Most important thing to remember follow QA/QC

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Part1 ScienceBackground

Watersheds

UrbanWQ

WQIndicators&

Pollutants

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Watersheds

Watershed=Ariverrunsthroughit

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Healthy Watersheds Support

Biodiversity

Ecosystem

function

Humanactivities

Carl Gwinn

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San Diegos Watersheds

SanDiegohas

elevencoastal

watersheds

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The Impact of Urbanization

Hard

surfaces

disruptthe

normal

watercycle

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The Impact of Urbanization

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WaterQualityIndicators

BasicAmbient Indicators

1. Temperature2. Oxygen

3. pH

4. Conductivity

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More Complex Indicators

1. Nutrients(Nitrogen&Phosphorus)

2. Metals

3. Bacteria

4. Toxicity

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Nutrients

Nitrogen Phosphorus

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Metals

Source:

Urbanrunoff

Atmosphericdeposition

Toxictowiderangeofanimals

takeslong

time

to

degrade

Brake pads

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Bacteria / Pathogens

Source=anywarm

bloodedanimal

Diseasecausing

Economicand

social

costs

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Toxicity

Definition: The degree to which a substance can harm humans or animals.

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Section2:WhatamIactuallydoing?

Whatisourprogram?

Howdo

you

collect

samples?

WhatisQA/QC?

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Coastkeeper WQMP

Startedin2006

Volunteer&

Partner

based

Rigorouscitizenscience

2 3

sites

per

watershed

in

9of11

watersheds

Wemeasurebasic&complexWQindicators

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Some basics of QA/QC

QA/QC = Quality assurance and quality control = usable data

1. Read your SOP before you start!

2. Gloves

3. Label

Good data comes from:

1. Consistency2. Completeness

3. Attention to detail

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Some Basics of QA/QC

CleanHands/DirtyHands

Clean Hand Dirty Hand

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Some basics of QA/QC

Dontdothis

Bad

Even Worse

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SomeBasicsofQA/QC

DoThis.

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Fill Out Data Sheets Correctly!

BAD GOOD

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A Day in the Life of a WQMP

Volunteer IgettoCoastkeeper

Signinandhavesomecoffeeandbagels

getmyfieldequipment&myteam

Goto

the

field

site

CollectsamplesandFILLOUTmysheets

ReturnthesamplestotheCoastkeeper lab

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Section3 Policy

PorterCologne

&

Clean

Water

Act

requirement

Citizenprovisions(wegettosuepolluters)

Statesmust

assess

waterbodies (305

&

303

dlists)

Forimpairedwaters,cleanupplansmustbedeveloped

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Where Does the Data Go?

Student / Citizen /Community Monitoring

Assess surface waters

California SWAMP data systemClassify waterbodies

as impaired

State Agencies Develop plans to clean up

impaired waterbodies (TMDLs)

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Impaired Waters in Our Region

Manywaterbodies

arelisted

as

impaired

Only

a

few

clean

up

planscompleted

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WatershedWiki

Beachdata WatershedMonitoringData

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Volunteer or become an intern for SD

Coastkeeper

OtherWaystoGetInvolved

Become a member and

support our work

Intern

bioassessment trainings (SanDiego Stream Team)

Become a Watershed Captainor join Volunteer Core

Sign up on our website

http://sdwatersheds.org:84/wiki/index.php/Twitterhttp://www.sdwatersheds.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Facebookbadge.png

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