Lake Michigan Tributary Surface Water Quality Monitoring Objectives and Protocols Inventory Form

 

The following form is a follow up to the recently completed assessment of monitoring in the Lake Michigan watershed to provide more detailed information regarding water quality monitoring objectives, sampling locations, parameters analyzed, and sampling and analyses protocols employed to meet the monitoring objectives. Please complete the form to the best of your ability and return it to Charlie Peters by June 15th,2000. If you conduct more than one monitoring program please provide information on each program, using additional copies of this form if necessary. The form should take about 30 minutes to complete.

 

 

General Information

 

1)      Please provide primary contact information for the monitoring program.

 

Name:

 

Organization:

 

Address:

 

City:                                         State:                            Zip:

 

Phone:                                      Fax:

 

Email:                                       Website:

 

 

2)      What is the name of the monitoring program? 

 

 

3)      What are the objectives of the monitoring program?

a)      Research

b)      Regulatory

c)      Trends

d)      Occurrence and Distribution

e)      Other, describe

 

4)      Is there written documentation of the Data Quality (DQO) or Measurement Quality Objectives (MQO) for the program?

 

 

 

5)      When did the monitoring program Begin? Is the program Ongoing? Is there a scheduled date when the monitoring program will end?

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring Network

 

1)      Are computer based maps of the monitoring locations available? If so what format are they in?

 

 

2)      What is the Spatial sampling strategy employed?

a)      Random

b)      Regulation Based

c)      Environmental Feature Based

d)      Politically Based

e)      Other, describe

 

 

 

3)      What is the temporal sampling strategy employed?

a)      Quarterly

b)      Every 6 weeks

c)      Monthly

d)      Every 2 weeks

e)      Weekly

f)        Storms Only

g)      Every 6 weeks plus storms

h)      Monthly plus storms

i)        Every 2 weeks plus storms

j)        Weekly plus storms

k)      Automated

 

 

4)      What water quality parameters are being monitored: (in table format – check box)

 

a)      Physical parameters?

                                                                     i.            Flow

                                                                   ii.            Temperature

                                                                  iii.            Sediment

a.       Suspended

b.      Bed load

                                                                 iv.            Other, describe

 

b)      Field measurements?

                                                                     i.            PH

                                                                   ii.            Conductance

                                                                  iii.            Alkalinity

                                                                 iv.            DO

                                                                   v.            Other, describe

 

 

c)      Chemical parameters?

                                                                     i.            Inorganics

a.       Major Ions (Cl, So4, Na, K, Ca, Mg, HCO3)

b.      Trace Elements and Metals

c.       Nutrients

 

                                                                   ii.            Organics

a.       DOC

b.      VOCs

c.       Pesticides

d.      Base Neutral (BNAs)

e.       PAHs

 

                                                                  iii.            Radioactive or Stable Isotopes

 

d)      Microbiological

                                                                                 i.            Describe

 

e)      Biological

                                                                               ii.            Fish Community

                                                                              iii.            Algae Community

                                                                             iv.            Macro Invertebrates

 

f)        Bed Sediment Chemistry

                                                                                 i.            Trace Elements

                                                                               ii.            Organics

a.       Chlorinated

b.      BNAs

c.       Gross

g)      Tissue Chemistry

                                                                                 i.            Trace Elements

                                                                               ii.            Organics

a.       Chlorinated

b.      BNAs

c.       Gross

 

 Sample Collection Methods

 

1)      What water chemistry sample collection method was used?

a.       Grab

b.      EWI

c.       Other, describe

 

2)      Is there written documentation for the water chemistry sampling protocols employed? If so, provide reference.

 

 

3)      What Biological sample collection methods were used? (are there 2 or 3 choices?)

 

4)      Is there written documentation for the biological sampling protocols employed? If so, provide reference.

 

 

5)      What Microbiological sample collection method was used?

 

6)      Is there written documentation for the biological sampling protocols employed? If so, provide reference.

 

 

7)      What Sediment chemistry sample collection method was used?

 

8)      Is there written documentation for the sediment chemistry sampling protocols employed? If so, provide reference.

 

 

 

9)      What Tissue chemistry sample collection method was used?

 

10)  Is there written documentation for the Tissue chemistry sampling protocols employed? If so, provide reference.

 

 

 

 

Analytical Methods

 

1)      What analytical methods are used to provide the chemical, biological, microbiological or sediment and tissue chemical results?

a.       EPA Guidelines, provide method series number and reference.

b.      Standard Methods, provide method numbers.

c.       ASTM Methods, provide method numbers.

d.      AOAC Methods, provide method numbers.

e.       USGS Methods, provide method numbers.

f.        Field Kit, provide manufacturer and method numbers.

g.       Field Probes

h.       Other, describe

 

           

2)      What laboratory conducts the analyses? Does the laboratory have a website?

 

 

3)      Is quality assurance information available for the analytical method used?

a.       Precision

b.      Accuracy

c.       Detection Levels

d.      Intereference Information

e.       Concentration range

f.        Ruggedness

g.       Other, describe

 

Data Management

 

1)      How are the results of the analyses provided?

a.       Hard Copy

b.      Computer File

c.       On-line

d.      Other, describe

 

 

2)      Is there meta data (site location, sampling and analytical protocol, etc. information) provided with the data?