Clean Water Program

This initial Delta RMP Data Workgroup Meeting will establish the procedure and requirements for participants. Ideal participants for this workgroup include data managers, programmers, quality assurance and monitoring specialists, and SWAMP representatives. We envision that workgroups will meet approximately every two months and will need from three to six meetings to complete their work, depending on the complexity of the issues. A basic premise for these workgroup efforts is that they not impose additional monitoring requirements or significantly increase program costs.

This meeting will feature informational presentations about the Interagency Ecological Program, the San Francisco Bay RMP, CEDEN, and the California Water Quality Council My Water Quality Portals. This meeting is intended to inform stakeholders and present an option for synthesizing information. There will be an opportunity to discuss and comment on the material presented in order to establish a clear path moving forward.

Jane Curren, a PhD student with Mike Stenstrom at UCLA, will present her master's thesis on the "Identification of subwatershed sources for chlorinated pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in the Ballona Creek watershed". Her presentation is very relevant to the questions being addressed by the Small Tributary Loading Strategy.

David Senn, from the EAWAG (Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology) and the ETH (Tech. University) gave a brown bag at SFEI on "Mercury in the northern Gulf of Mexico: biogeochemistry, trophic transfer, and human exposure". He received his PhD from MIT and taught at the Harvard Public School of Health before going to Switzerland.