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Appendix A: Interim Report
Appendix A: Interim Report
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Appendix A Interim Report cod
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33~520 We are pleased to transmit ten copies of an interim report by the Committee to Review the USGS National Water Quality Assessment (hIAWQA) pilot program.
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In addition, various committee members have made site visits to five of seven pilot study areas to discuss the program with local officials and researchers as well as with USGS personnel directly involved in the sampling and data collection program. The committee is scheduled to provide a final report on its review of the NAWQA program by April 1990.
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To address the potential usefulness of a full-scale NAWQA program, the committee members (in small teams) visited five of the seven pilot site study areas, including the Carson River Basin, Upper Illinois River Basin, Yakima River Basin, Kentucky River Basin, and Central Oklahoma Aquifer.
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The data and information generated by the NAWQA program should be able to be made available to state and local agencies and to private industry in a timely and cost-effective way. NEED FOR A LONG-TERM WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT The committee believes there is a genuine need for a longterm, large-scale national assessment of water quality in the United States.
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Second, the processes affecting water quality take place over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. For example, ground water flow rates are very small, and a "snapshot," or even several snapshots closely spaced in time, would provide relatively little information about change.
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Therefore, a national assessment is a particularly timely undertaking. COMMITTEE'S EVALUATION OF SPECIFIC PROGRAM COMPONENTS Integration of Surface Water/Ground Water Study Units The original NAWQA program plan specified 120 separate planned surface water and ground water study areas or units.
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Third, the analysis of existing data may delineate water quality trends that could influence the sampling efforts of the local NAWQA projects and identify existing or potential water quality problems that need attention from agencies or private industry.
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The USGS must remain vigilant for and take advantage of, as appropriate, not only activities already in existence, but also those activities in the planning stages, such as EPA's proposed Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program. NAWQA should also be coordinated with existing programs such as the Fish and Wildlife Service's National Contaminant Biomonitoring Program, the Great Lakes International Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program, NOAA's program on environmental quality of coastal waters, and NOAA's tissue banking program.
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Temporal Considerations There are several unique characteristics of the NAWQA program that might loosely be referred to as "temporal considerations." For a given study unit, current plans call for five years of intensive data collection followed by four years of less intensive data collection activity (the "on/off" approach)
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The USGS has an excellent reputation in performing its water quality data collection programs at the national, state, and local levels. This will be important when it comes to cooperation with other federal, state, and local agencies.
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Committee to Review the USGS National Water Quality Assessment Pilot Program Richard S Engelbrecht (Chairman)
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