We Have the Data, Now What? Using Your Water Quality Monitoring Data
Held on April 23, 2002
Location: Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Reserve, Pennington, New Jersey
Many groups monitor their lakes and streams using a variety of methods. This workshop illustrated how two groups in the state of New Jersey use their data to determine the water quality in their watershed as well as communicating the results to their stakeholders.
The first slide show presents a brief overview of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP) monitoring and assessment programs for water quality. The power point presentation then addresses the importance of volunteer monitoring program and NJDEP's volunteer monitoring programs.
This next power point presentation documents the development efforts Pohatcong Creek Watershed Association (PCWA) undertook to design their benthic invertebrate monitoring program. The slide show wraps up by illustrating how PCWA inputs their data into the Stream Assessment Monitoring System (SAMS), a GIS database management system, which displays the results from the monitoring program. Displaying detailed analysis of sampling data for each site, the ability to calculate the NJ Impairment Score with six other features and view site photographs to name a few of the SAMS features. Please take a few moments to view the slide show below.
The final slide show describes Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association's (SBMWA) ten-year-old volunteer water quality monitoring program. SBMWA's presentation provides a visual on how the StreamWatch program (involving chemical biological and visual assessment) efforts is currently conveyed to their volunteers through a newsletter and to a broader audience using the Internet. The slide show also describes how monitoring data was utilized in a characterization and assessment of a subwatershed.
Please note: The following are PowerPoint presentations. If you do not have PowerPoint installed on your PC you may download a free viewer here: http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx
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Steve Yergeau, Watershed Assessment Specialist for the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, discussed how he uses the stream monitoring data collected by over 100 volunteers performing chemical, biological and visual assessments. Using Monitoring Data.ppt (large file 2.95MB)
Kerry Kirk-Pflugh, Section Chief, shared how the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection uses water quality monitoring data. Monitoring.ppt (large file 4.64 MB). She also related her experiences working as a volunteer with the Pohatcong Creek Watershed Association. Stream Monitoring Program.ppt (792 KB)
Contact information for these speakers and their respective organizations are: Kerry Kirk-Pflugh, Section Chief Education & Outreach, NJDEP, 401 E State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625, (609) 633-7020
For more information contact Alyse Greenberg at (609) 737-3735 or
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Photo Credits: Millstone River (Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association), Musconetcong River (Musconetcong Watershed Association), and Pequannock River (Pequannock River Coalition).
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Using Monitoring Data.ppt
