utah's water quality data
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For more information, please visit http://deq.utah.govTRANSCRIPT
KATE T IPPLE
DEQ – DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY
JORDAN RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL MEETING
FEBRUARY 22 , 2012
Utah’s Water Quality Data
• MONITORING FOR DATA
• DATA MANAGEMENT
• FUTURE GOALS
Data: From River to Database
Monitoring for Data
• CWA Requirements
• Strategic Monitoring Plan
• Cooperative Monitoring
Monitoring for Clean Water Act
DWQ is responsible for implementing and enforcing Clean Water Act
� Monitoring is performed to:
� Assess conditions
� Set state standards
� Ensure current health and environmental standards are met
Monitoring for Clean Water Act
Integrated Report Nonpoint Source Grants Report
Quality Assurance
TMDL GroundwaterReporting
Permitting
Timeframe Due April 1st of evennumber years (e.g. 2002, 2004)
Required annually Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing
CWARequirement
• 40 CFR 130.8(b)(2) and 130.8(b)(1)
• Section 314(a)(1)(F)
• Section 303(d)
Section 319(h)(11) 40 CFR 31.45 Section 303(d) N/A Inspection Reports
Objective 305(b) Reporting. The primary assessment of state water quality; leads to the development of water quality management plans.
Clean Lake Report. State reports on the status and trends of water quality in lakes
303(d) List. State identifies waters that are impaired; causes and sources of impairment, prioritizes waters targeted for TMDL development
The State reports on the activities, summary of projects, environmental accomplishments, federal consistency, status of grants, reductions in nonpoint source loadings. Water quality monitoring included in 305(b) report.
Ensures reliability of the procedures used to obtain data for all reports.
The TMDL section prepares a report identifying the cause(s) and source(s) of the impairment, the amount of each pollutant that comes from point sources and nonpoint sources, the background or natural component of the pollutant is also quantified, allocation of reduction and establishment of endpoints.
Utah Geological Survey Aquifer Classification Reports (DWQ reviews), Water-Resources Investigation Reports (Prepared by USGS with cooperation of the DWQ).
Uniform Enforcement Oversight System (UEOS) Report
UDWQ’s Strategic Monitoring Plan
A Tiered and Adaptive Framework
UDWQ’s Strategic Monitoring Plan
A Rotating Basin Approach
� Water year – October 1 through September 30
� Jordan River-Utah Lake Basins sampled 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
UDWQ’s Cooperative Monitoring
Exchange State DOH Laboratory resources for field sampling efforts
� Annual training, guidance, SOP documentation
� Cooperators operate under DWQ’s QAPP
� State manages data
� Salt Lake County
� Salt Lake City
� Central Utah Water
Conservation District
� Jordan River/Farmington Bay
Water Quality Council
UDWQ’s Data Management
• Data Management History
• Quality Assurance
• New Data Management
• Data Validation
• Database Use
UDWQ’s Data Management History
� Local Version of STORET
� Software-dependent
� “Data request”-driven sharing
� No longer supported by EPA
� Replaced with Water Quality
Exchange - “WQX”
UDWQ’s Quality Assurance
� DEQ Quality Management Plan (QMP)
� DWQ Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP)
� Project/Program Sampling Analysis Plans (SAPs)
� Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Documentation online after March 15, 2012
http://www.WaterQuality.Utah.gov/Monitoring
UDWQ’s Data Management
� AWQMS/WQX
� Utah installed “out-of-the-box” AWQMS database
� Web-based application
� Migrated all “historic” data
� Parallel to EPA’s WQX database
� Currently in-development to add enhancements
� Data validation tools
� Data query tools
� ..and more
� AWQMS User’s Community
� “Community Software” approach
UDWQ’s Data Validation
� Streamlined data processing
� Automated validation
� Data Status: Preliminary v. Final
� Internal threshold analyses
� Variety of access rights
� Flexible design
UDWQ’s Database Use
� Submit data to EPA
� Internal access to data for CWA reporting needs
� External access to Cooperators for data submission and data access
� Manage and
store data
DWQDWQ
UDWQ’s DatabaseLab Chemistry
Data
Field Data
MacroinvertebrateData
Additional Biological and Physical Data
E. coli Data
Field Data
E. coli Data
QC
QC
QC
QC QC
Validation
EPA’sWQX
Database
External Data Users
Internal Data Users
Cooperative Data Users
QC
QC
Cooperators
UDWQ’s Database
A demonstration of the new DWQ Database
Coming soon…
Coming soon…
Coming soon…
Coming soon…
Data CollectionData Collection Data ManagementData Management
� Volunteer monitoring
� Field audits
� Long-term monitoring instrumentation
� SAPs
� Public access to database
� Credible data criteria
UDWQ’s Goals
Thank you!
JAMES HARRIS
801 -536 -4360
KATE T IPPLE
801 -536 -4367
TRISHA JOHNSON
801 -536 -4193
UDWQ Contacts