Water Monitoring Programs of EPA and its Clean Water Act Partners

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Water Monitoring Programs of EPA and its Clean
Water Act Partners
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Program Categories

• 1. Status and Process Monitoring
• 2. Monitoring to Guide the Management of
  National Programs
• 3. Monitoring to Guide the Management of
  Geographic Programs

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Category 1 Status and Process Monitoring

• Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program
  (EMAP)
• Media Studied
• Surface Waters, Landscapes, Wetlands
• Agroecosystems, Forests, Rangelands
• Waters Studied
• Western EPA Regions,
• Mid-Atlantic,
• Estuaries

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Category 2 Monitoring to Guide the Management of
National Programs

• Water Pollution Control Program
• Monitoring
• Planning, Assessment, Compliance
• The Section 319 Nonpoint Source Controls
• National Monitoring Program

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Category 2 Monitoring to Guide the Management of
National Programs

• Major grant programs cover many activities
• Funding shown is Federal grant only
• Monitoring is only a portion of these funds

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Category 2 Monitoring to Guide the Management of
National Programs

• What we know
• Monitoring By States Covers
• Establishing Standards
• Basin Planning
• Identifying Problems
• TMDL Development
• Setting Permit Limits
• Assessing NPS Controls
• Beach/Bed Closures
• Trending/Indexing
• Public Education
• Federal funding is about 1/3 of the total state
  programs
• Monitoring consumes 112 to about 180 million
  annually

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Source ASIWPCA
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Category 2 Monitoring to Guide the Management of
National Programs

• Water Pollution Control Program
• National Study of Chemical Residues in Lake Fish
  Tissue
• EPA - Marine Debris Monitoring and Abatement
• Pesticides in Selected Water-Supply Reservoirs
  and Finished Drinking Water, 1999-2000
• Beach Program
• National Estuary Program (NEP)
• National Coastal Assessment Intensive Sampling
• Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring

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Category 2 Monitoring to Guide the Management of
National Programs

• Beaches and Other Monitoring

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Category3. Monitoring to Guide the Management of
Geographic Programs

• The Florida Keys 1.7
• Chesapeake Bay 18.1
• Great Lakes 25.2
• Gulf of Mexico 1.8
• 55 Million

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Program Categories

• 1. Status and Process Monitoring
• 43.3 M Annually
• 2. Monitoring to Guide the Management of National
  Programs
• 124-192 M Annually
• 3. Monitoring to Guide the Management of
  Geographic Programs
• 5 M Annually