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Lake Michigan has been chosen as one of three pilot study sites for use in the development of the National Water Quality Monitoring Network for U.S. Coastal Waters and their Tributaries, commonly known as the National Monitoring Network (NMN). The NMN is a response to a recommendation by the U.S. Oceans Commission for a national monitoring network that can provide the information necessary for effective stewardship of ocean and coastal resources. The pilot study will test and refine the NMN design across a broad range of Lake Michigan resource components, from upland watersheds to offshore waters.
The pilot study will examine current Lake Michigan monitoring and gaps in relation to the proposed NMN design specifications. During the project, Lake Michigan monitoring stakeholders will test and refine the NMN design for nine resource components (see below). The project may serve as a catalyst for enhanced monitoring coordination throughout the Great Lakes basin. Work on the pilot study is scheduled to be completed by January 2008. The next demonstration phase is anticipated to begin shortly thereafter, and most likely will involve improvements to existing monitoring sites, and installation of new sites, sensors, and data systems needed to fill critical data gaps in selected regions.
For more information, see http://acwi.gov/monitoring/network or http://wi.water.usgs.gov/lmmcc.
Resource Component Workgroups
REGARDING CONTAMINANTS: I am preparing an excel worksheet with the current NAWQA parameter list in the first column. This had to be supplemented for Mussel Watch and GLNPO fish monitoring. Additional columns are described below. Worksheet contents are limited to the Lake Michigan Basin.
2. NAWQA parameter name--helps to align other agency water quality monitoring.
3. NAWQA report units mass/mass, volume/volume, etc.
4. NAWQA primary schedule--this may be deleted. Does anyone perceive a need for it?
5. CAS number--helps those of us challenged by chemistry name conventions.
6. Indiana Rotating Basin Monitoring
7. Indiana Fixed Station Statewide
8. Illinois Lake Michigan Basin IL analytical numbers are STORET numbers. Didn't know this when I started.
9. Michigan Water Quality Monitoring Strategy-- cells are completed with phrases like "Core Water Quality (WQ) Indicator (Ind.) for Aquatic Life (Aq. Life)" and FCA/WCA for fish consumption advisory/wildlife consumption advisory.
10. Wisconsin Non-wadable Rivers
11. Wisconsin Long Term Trends Ambient Water Quality Network
12. Mussel Watch -- identifies analytes
13. Western Lake Michigan NAWQA
14. GLNPO water > 27 meters depth
15. I can add IADN, mercury deposition network, CASTNET, etc.
Sue Rodenbeck Brauer, brauer.sue@epa.gov, ph 312-353-6134
What you do is very important, if not to say noble. You are engaged into a useful activity and you must be really proud of it. I downloaded the report on the subject on http://www.picktorrent.com search engine and found out that the Lake Michigan Monitoring Coordination Council (LMMCC) had organized work groups around a multi-component framework that closely resembled the NMN framework components. Is it really so?
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