1. Central Coast Ambient Monitoring Program CCAMP  Summary of CCAMP Monitoring  How we make CCAMP happen  Making data available  Measuring performance - our “Watershed Report Card”

2. 2 Monthly monitoring at thirty-three sites since 2001 Long-term trend monitoring at Coastal Confluences sites Monterey Bay Santa Barbara Channel What we do

3. 3 Monthly monitoring at thirty sites in each rotation area since 1998 Salinas Santa Maria Pajaro & North Coast Santa Barbara Coast Big Basin & Estero Coast What we do 1998 / 2005 / 2011 1999 / 2006 / 2012 2000 / 2007 / 2013 2001 / 2008 / 2014 2002 / 2009 / 2015 Watershed Rotation Area Monitoring

4. 4 Conventional Water Quality Monthly Monitoring at All Sites – Nutrients – Salts – Copper and Zinc – Pathogen indicators – Probe measurements – Flow What we do

5. 5 Less frequently at a subset of CCAMP sites Benthic Invertebrate and algal assemblages Habitat assessment (pHab) Water and Sediment toxicity Microcystin screening Pesticide and metals chemistry (recent) Riparian assessment (future) What we do

6. Our data has resulted in:  11,700 Lines of Evidence for 303(d) Listing purposes  Enforcement actions  TMDL Success stories  Agricultural, NPDES, and storm water program decision support  Trend and change detection associated with regulatory actions In this case, a treatment plant upgrade went online in May, 2007

7. Making our data accessible  CCAMP has had data online since 2000  The CCAMP Data Navigator is our primary data display tool.  This tool updates on a scheduled basis from multiple databases, including SWAMP-CEDEN

8. Examples from the CCAMP Data Navigator Nitrate-nitrite in Region 3

9. Time series show improvement on Chorro Creek after a treatment plant upgrade. Nitrate-nitrite is shown below.

10. Change analysis at Chorro Creek - Ortho-phosphate also improved after a treatment plant upgrade

11. A note about status and change…

12. From our website: Nitrate in the Monterey Area

14. (note arrow icons denoting change).

15. We look at change in two ways: Kendall Trend Analysis

16. We look at change in two ways: Kendall Trend Analysis

17. Some change doesn’t fit a straight line:

20. Change Point Analysis defines probable change points in a time series of data In this case, a treatment plant upgrade went online in May, 2007

21. Change Point Analysis allows us to grade (color) two sections of arrow icon

22. Healthy Watershed Report Cards: A way to measure our performance

23. What do water quality managers and decision- makers need from their data?  Where is the problem?  What is causing the problem?  What land uses are associated with the problem?  Where are our best places, that need to be protected?  Where are places that could be enhanced or improved?  Are things getting better or worse? Where??

24. We can answer these types of questions in an assessment report But can we answer them with an online tool that updates as the data does??

25. Central Coast Healthy Watershed Website and Report Card Approach The Healthy Watersheds website is designed with the general public and decision makers in mind, but still allows an exploratory approach so an inquiring user can drill in for more details….

26. The website scores Hydrologic Units, waterbodies and sites for health

31. 31 Our Vision for the Central Coast… Healthy Watersheds By 2025: Healthy Aquatic Habitat - 80% of aquatic habitat is healthy; remaining 20% exhibit positive trends in key parameters Proper Land Management - 80% of land is managed to maintain proper watershed functions; remaining 20% exhibit positive trends in key parameters Clean Groundwater - 80 percent of ground water is clean, and the remaining 20 percent will exhibit positive trends in key parameters

32. To assess our goals we needed to characterize both status (health) and change  Multi-metric approach  Measured and modeled data  Consistent, threshold-based scoring approach  Status and change at different scales – Analyte and multi-metric scales – Site, waterbody, and watershed scales

33. General principles  Help the user answer Where, Why, What?  Data from readily available online sources  Data of documented quality  Transparency of methods  Drill down for detail  Staff-maintained technical content via wikis

34.  Adapted from Canadian Water Quality Index (CCME)  Magnitude and exceedance components  “Report card” paradigm We are also designating Outstanding (A+) for “Blue Water Streams” that score Excellent across all measures. Scoring Approach 5 Excellent Good Fair Poor Very Poor

35. Indices of Health Human Health Index Drinking water Nitrogen species Salts Metals Organic Chemicals Water Contact Pathogens Aquatic Life Index Conventional Analytes Toxicity Bioassessment Biostimulatory Risk Metals Organic Chemicals

37. Scoring whole watersheds (currently in progress)

38. Flow and Loading Assign scores to upstream reaches. Use modeled data to score unmonitored areas

39. Modeled data from California’s recent Healthy Watersheds Assessment

40. Healthy Watersheds Web Report Card, publically available later this winter

41. Next Steps Public release of Data Navigator Methods manual to the SWAMP program for peer review this fall. Public release of Phase 1 of the Central Coast Healthy Watersheds Report Card this winter

42. Phase 2 of the Healthy Watersheds Report Card Add linked groundwater data from GeoTracker to Human Health Goal Address Goal 2 related to land management Pesticide applications Impervious surfaces Ag program metrics Stormwater program metrics Other measures of performance

43. About CCAMP Products  Dave Paradies has done all of the software development  All funding for Dave’s time comes from the CCAMP Endowment, held by a non-profit organization  All code is open source, and is openly available for use by others  We are interested in finding support for this code into the future  Other entities, including EPA, State Board staff and the Calif. Water Quality Monitoring Council, have expressed interest in our tools.

44. How did our Regional Water Board make a project of this nature happen? Three important ways:  CCAMP Endowment (in addition to SWAMP $)  Staffing – Field staff – Data management and software support  Management support!

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