Water Quality Monitoring SWAMP Workshop
September 7–9, 2005
Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District
10545 Armstrong Avenue, Room 170
Mather, CA 95655
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The Sacramento River Watershed Program (SRWP) and the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) are offering three days of workshops to provide training on water quality monitoring, quality assurance, and SWAMP data management.
These three separate day-long workshops are described below. These workshops are open to anyone interested in conducting SWAMP-comparable monitoring and data management. Participants can register and attend one or more of the workshops.
Workshop objectives
Attendees will develop a better understanding of the planning documents required for their monitoring-related grant projects and the relationships between them; access to tools and resources to help with collection of scientifically defensible
monitoring data; hands-on experience with implementing some basic concepts of the monitoring design; and training on the statewide CEDEN on-line database. Each day of the workshop builds on the previous so if you feel a need for training in all of the
subjects, we encourage you to sign up for them all.
Day 1: Water Quality Monitoring Design and Project Planning
With a focus on thoughtful planning, we will go through the development of a monitoring program.
- Effectiveness Tracking and other requirements (PAEP/PMPP/PMAP, Monitoring Plan, QAPP, Project Report)
- Designing a monitoring project—question formulation, probabilistic/deterministic sampling design principles, choosing the “what, where, and when.”
- Statistical comparisons and power analysis
- Data representativeness and measurement quality
- Management of data for validation, retrieval, interpretation, and presentation
- Group exercises—Working on different monitoring project scenarios
Day 2: Quality Assurance for Projects Comparable with SWAMP
Day 1 and 2 should be taken together since the monitoring design training leads to the development of better Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs).
- Monitoring quality assurance overview
- The QAPP Preparation and Review Process—The 24 elements of a QAPP and the use of the SWAMP Quality Assurance Management Plan (QAMP) – comparable QAPP template
- Group exercise - development of selected QAPP elements for a case study
Day 3: Water Quality Database Management
Training on the California Environmental Data Exchange Network (CEDEN). CEDEN is a growing statewide cooperative effort of various groups involved in the water and environmental resources of the State of California. This on-line database network is
open to federal, state, county and private organizations interested in sharing data throughout the state. SWAMP-comparable data must be entered into CEDEN databases. This day of training will provide background on CEDEN, an introduction to the data
entry software and several of the monitoring data entry modules. We plan on covering the following topics during the day:
- CEDEN overview
- SWAMP data entry modules and components:
- SWAMP comparable field data sheet
- Chemistry standard formats
- Toxicity standard formats
- Status of bioassessment module of the SWAMP database
- Using SWAMP query files
- Available resources
