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70 percent of the salmon caught off California's coast spawn in the river and its hatcheries.
70 percent of the salmon caught off California's coast spawn in the Sacramento River

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Designing and Maintaining a Water Quality Monitoring Program

August 19, 2004
Chico

The SRWP held a successful one-day educational workshop attended by 64 people and the media.

The workshop presentations covered the a variety of  topics, including overviews of the State Board's SWAMP and citizen's monitoring efforts, case studies of successful monitoring programs, integrating monitoring with educational opportunities, managing data, and more.

Presentations

Presentation Title Presenter File size
Elements of a Monitoring Program Plan Tom Grovhoug, LWA 147KB
Overview of Quality Assurance Karen Larsen, SWRCB 37 KB
Overview of the State Board’s Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) Emilie Reyes, SWRCB 325 KB
Case Studies of Successful Monitoring Programs A. Regional Monitoring Program Rainer Hoenicke 1218 KB
Pit River Alliance James Rickert 5380 KB
South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) Janet Cohen 1536 KB
El Dorado County RCD Mark Egbert 1342 KB
Bay-Delta Tributaries (BDAT) Database Karl Jacobs, DWR 2266 KB
SWAMP Data Management Emilie Reyes, SWRCB 303 KB
Western Shasta Watershed Information Model Chris Glover, Western Shasta RCD 1468 KB
San Francisco Bay Regional Monitoring Program Rainer Hoenicke, SFEI 1128 KB
SRWP Monitoring Program Tom Grovhoug, LWA 147 KB
Bioassessment Monitoring Jim Harrington, DFG 2535 KB
Watershed Group Monitoring Dennis Heiman, CVRWQCB 4499 KB