# Presentation: 707252

## Water Monitoring Programs of EPA and its Clean Water Act Partners

## Program Categories:

**1. ****	****Status and Process Monitoring**
**2.****	****Monitoring to Guide the       Management of National Programs**
**3.****	****Monitoring to Guide the Management of Geographic Programs**

## Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP)
Media Studied:
Surface Waters, Landscapes, Wetlands 
 Agroecosystems, Forests, Rangelands
Waters Studied:
 Western EPA Regions, 
Mid-Atlantic, 
Estuaries 

- Media Studied:
- Surface Waters, Landscapes, Wetlands
-  Agroecosystems, Forests, Rangelands
- Waters Studied:
-  Western EPA Regions,
- Mid-Atlantic,
- Estuaries

***Category 1:  Status and Process Monitoring***

## Water Pollution Control Program 
Monitoring
Planning, Assessment, Compliance
The Section 319 Nonpoint Source Controls 
National Monitoring Program

**Monitoring**
- Planning, Assessment, Compliance
**The Section 319 Nonpoint Source Controls **
- National Monitoring Program

***Category 2: Monitoring to Guide the Management of National Programs***

## Major grant programs cover many activities
 Funding shown is Federal grant only
Monitoring is only a portion of these funds

-  Funding shown is Federal grant only
- Monitoring is only a portion of these funds

***Category 2: Monitoring to Guide the Management of National Programs***

## What we know:
Monitoring By States Covers
Establishing Standards	
Basin Planning
Identifying Problems
TMDL Development	
Setting Permit Limits	
Assessing NPS Controls	
Beach/Bed  Closures
Trending/Indexing		
Public Education
Federal funding is about 1/3 of the total state programs
Monitoring consumes $112 to about $180 million annually

- Monitoring By States Covers
- Establishing Standards
- Basin Planning
- Identifying Problems
- TMDL Development
- Setting Permit Limits
- Assessing NPS Controls
- Beach/Bed  Closures
- Trending/Indexing
- Public Education
- Federal funding is about 1/3 of the total state programs
- Monitoring consumes $112 to about $180 million annually

***Category 2: Monitoring to Guide the Management of National Programs***

## Source: ASIWPCA

**Source: ASIWPCA**

## Water Pollution Control Program 
National Study of Chemical Residues in Lake Fish Tissue
EPA - Marine Debris Monitoring and Abatement
Pesticides in Selected Water-Supply Reservoirs and Finished Drinking Water, 1999-2000
Beach Program
National Estuary Program (NEP): 
National Coastal Assessment Intensive Sampling
Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring

**National Study of Chemical Residues in Lake Fish Tissue**
**EPA - Marine Debris Monitoring and Abatement**
**Pesticides in Selected Water-Supply Reservoirs and Finished Drinking Water, 1999-2000**
**Beach Program**
**National Estuary Program (NEP): **
**National Coastal Assessment Intensive Sampling**
**Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring**

***Category 2: Monitoring to Guide the Management of National Programs***

## Beaches and Other Monitoring

***Category 2: Monitoring to Guide the Management of National Programs***

## The Florida Keys		$ 1.7
Chesapeake Bay		18.1
Great Lakes			25.2
Gulf of Mexico		 1.8
						$55 Million	

- Chesapeake Bay		18.1
- Great Lakes			25.2
- Gulf of Mexico		 _1.8_
**	****	****	****	****	****	****$55 Million****	**

***Category3. Monitoring to Guide the Management of Geographic Programs***

## Program Categories:

**1. ****	****Status and Process Monitoring **
**	****	****$43.3 M Annually**
**2.****	****Monitoring to Guide the Management of National Programs **
**	****	****$124-192 M Annually**
**3.****	****Monitoring to Guide the Management of Geographic Programs**
**	****	****$5 M Annually**