Nutrient Control Actions for Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico (2009) / Chapter Skim
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5 Monitoring the Effectiveness of Nutrient Control Actions and Strategies
5 Monitoring the Effectiveness of Nutrient Control Actions and Strategies
Pages 49-56
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" WATER QUALITY MONITORING FOR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN AND THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO Mississippi River Mainstem and River Basin Federal and state agencies across the Mississippi River basin support many different water quality monitoring programs. At the federal level, much of the water quality monitoring across the river basin is overseen by the U.S.
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Both organizations, however, have important and relevant experience in the region that would represent useful input to future nutrient control and water quality efforts. The multiple water quality programs across the Mississippi River basin have improved scientific understanding, communication, and cooperation on Mississippi River water quality issues; however, none of them are conducted specifically with regard to Clean Water Act reporting requirements.
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The existing water quality database and monitoring infrastructure is too diffuse and inconsistent to provide adequate support for a more comprehensive nutrient control program -- such as the NCII -- for the Mississippi River basin and northern Gulf of Mexico. Northern Gulf of Mexico Downstream in the northern Gulf of Mexico, current monitoring efforts of hypoxic zone dynamics are supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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Just as the previous 2008 NRC report called for stronger federal leadership for Mississippi River water quality monitoring, stronger federal leadership will be necessary to implement and administer the NCII and to support processes of nutrient load reductions allocations. As mentioned in this report and as documented in the previous, NRC 2008 report on Mississippi River water quality and elsewhere, the existing water quality database and monitoring infrastructure across the river basin is diffuse, spotty, and inadequate to support a systematic nutrient control effort such as the NCII.
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Nevertheless, this committee did consider several crucial functions to be carried out via a strengthened water quality monitoring effort and how they might be most effectively achieved. Those functions include: a capacity to support sustained, consistent collection of water quality data across the river basin; a capacity to support and promote cooperative monitoring and research among USDA, EPA, other relevant federal agencies, state agencies, local experts and officials, and university and other experts; and the capacity and resources to administer the NCII program.
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The center's efforts also will be useful in helping identify key variables and statistical approaches to be used in evaluating the local and downstream water quality effects of nutrient control actions. Finding/recommendation 8: To facilitate implementation of this report's recommendations, a Mississippi River Basin Water Quality Center should be established.
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Current funding levels and commitments and institutional arrangements, however, do not ensure that this monitoring will be conducted in the future. Finding/recommendation 9: To augment the efforts of the Mississippi River Basin Water Quality Center, the EPA, the USGS, NOAA, and the Mississippi River basin states should strengthen their commitment to systematic, evaluation-oriented water quality monitoring for the northern Gulf of Mexico.
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