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Central Coast Ambient Monitoring Program
CCAMP
Summary of CCAMP Monitoring How we make CCAMP happen Making data available Measuring performance - our
“Watershed Report Card”
2Monthly monitoring at thirty-three sites since 2001
Long-term trend monitoring at Coastal Confluences sites
Monterey Bay
Santa Barbara Channel
What we do
3Monthly monitoring at thirty sites in each rotation area since 1998
Salinas
Santa Maria
Pajaro & North Coast
Santa Barbara Coast
Big Basin & Estero Coast
What we do
1998 / 2005 / 20111999 / 2006 / 20122000 / 2007 / 20132001 / 2008 / 20142002 / 2009 / 2015
Watershed Rotation Area Monitoring
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Conventional Water QualityMonthly Monitoring at All Sites
– Nutrients– Salts– Copper and Zinc– Pathogen indicators– Probe measurements– Flow
What we do
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Less frequently at a subset of CCAMP sites
• Benthic Invertebrate and algal assemblages• Habitat assessment (pHab)• Water and Sediment toxicity• Microcystin screening• Pesticide and metals chemistry (recent)• Riparian assessment (future)
What we do
Our data has resulted in: 11,700 Lines of Evidence for 303(d) Listing purposes Enforcement actions TMDL Success stories Agricultural, NPDES, and storm water program decision
support Trend and change detection associated with regulatory
actions
In this case, a treatment plant upgrade went online in May, 2007
Making our data accessible CCAMP has had data online since 2000 The CCAMP Data Navigator is our primary data
display tool. This tool updates on a scheduled basis from multiple
databases, including SWAMP-CEDEN
Examples from the CCAMP Data NavigatorNitrate-nitrite in Region 3
Time series show improvement on Chorro Creek after a treatment plant upgrade. Nitrate-nitrite is shown below.
Change analysis at Chorro Creek - Ortho-phosphate also improved after a treatment plant upgrade
A note about status and change…
From our website: Nitrate in the Monterey Area
From our website: Nitrate in the Monterey Area
From our website: Nitrate in the Monterey Area (note arrow icons denoting change).
We look at change in two ways:Kendall Trend Analysis
We look at change in two ways:Kendall Trend Analysis
Some change doesn’t fit a straight line:
Some change doesn’t fit a straight line:
Some change doesn’t fit a straight line:
Change Point Analysis defines probable change points in a time series of data
In this case, a treatment plant upgrade went online in May, 2007
Change Point Analysis allows us to grade (color) two sections of arrow icon
Healthy Watershed Report Cards:
A way to measure our performance
What do water quality managers and decision-makers need from their data?
Where is the problem? What is causing the problem? What land uses are associated with the problem? Where are our best places, that need to be
protected? Where are places that could be enhanced or
improved? Are things getting better or worse? Where??
We can answer these types of questions in an assessment report
But can we answer them with an online tool that updates as the data does??
Central Coast Healthy Watershed Website and Report Card Approach
The Healthy Watersheds website is designed with the general public and decision makers in mind, but still allows an exploratory approach so an inquiring user can drill in for more details….
The website scores Hydrologic Units, waterbodies and sites for health
The website scores Hydrologic Units, waterbodies and sites for health
The website scores Hydrologic Units, waterbodies and sites for health
The website scores Hydrologic Units, waterbodies and sites for health
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Our Vision for the Central Coast…
Healthy Watersheds
By 2025:Healthy Aquatic Habitat - 80% of aquatic habitat is healthy; remaining 20% exhibit positive trends in key parameters
Proper Land Management - 80% of land is managed to maintain proper watershed functions; remaining 20% exhibit positive trends in key parameters
Clean Groundwater- 80 percent of ground water is clean, and the remaining 20 percent will exhibit positive trends in key parameters
To assess our goals we needed to characterize both status (health) and change
Multi-metric approach Measured and modeled data Consistent, threshold-based scoring approach Status and change at different scales– Analyte and multi-metric scales– Site, waterbody, and watershed scales
General principles
Help the user answer Where, Why, What? Data from readily available online sources Data of documented quality Transparency of methods Drill down for detail Staff-maintained technical content via wikis
Adapted from Canadian Water Quality Index (CCME) Magnitude and exceedance components “Report card” paradigm
We are also designating Outstanding (A+) for “Blue Water Streams”that score Excellent across all measures.
Scoring Approach
A 100 to 90B 90 to 80C 80 to 65D 65 to 40F 45 to 1
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Excellent
Good
Fair
Poor
Very Poor
Indices of Health
Human Health IndexDrinking water• Nitrogen species• Salts• Metals • Organic ChemicalsWater Contact• Pathogens
Aquatic Life Index• Conventional Analytes• Toxicity• Bioassessment• Biostimulatory Risk• Metals• Organic Chemicals
Scoring whole watersheds
(currently in progress)
Flow and Loading• Assign scores to upstream reaches.
• Use modeled data to score unmonitored areas
Modeled data from California’s recent Healthy Watersheds Assessment
Healthy Watersheds Web Report Card, publically available later this winter
Next Steps
• Public release of Data Navigator • Methods manual to the SWAMP program
for peer review this fall. • Public release of Phase 1 of the Central
Coast Healthy Watersheds Report Card this winter
Phase 2 of the Healthy Watersheds Report Card
• Add linked groundwater data from GeoTracker to Human Health Goal
• Address Goal 2 related to land management• Pesticide applications• Impervious surfaces• Ag program metrics• Stormwater program metrics• Other measures of performance
About CCAMP Products
Dave Paradies has done all of the software development All funding for Dave’s time comes from the CCAMP
Endowment, held by a non-profit organization All code is open source, and is openly available for use by
others We are interested in finding support for this code into
the future Other entities, including EPA, State Board staff and the
Calif. Water Quality Monitoring Council, have expressed interest in our tools.
How did our Regional Water Board make a project of this nature happen?
Three important ways: CCAMP Endowment (in addition to SWAMP $) Staffing– Field staff – Data management and software support
Management support!
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