Utah's Water Quality Data

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

JAMESHARRIS@UTAH.GOV

801 -536 -4360

KATE T IPPLE

KTIPPLE@UTAH.GOV

801 -536 -4367

TRISHA JOHNSON

TBJOHNSON@UTAH.GOV

801 -536 -4193

UDWQ Contacts