Clean Water Team (CWT) Citizen Monitoring

RESOURCE MATERIALS and RELATED WEB SITES Note: The contents of some of these documents do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the SWRCB, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.

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• The CWT Water Quality Monitoring Compendium (a series of 'how-to' manuals)
  
  
• Designing Your Monitoring Strategy: Basic Questions and Resources to Help Guide You
  
  
• Volunteer Monitoring Protocols:  A Reference Guide for Monitoring California's  Rivers, Streams, and Watersheds
• U.S. EPA Wetlands Volunteer Monitoring Guidance
• U.S. EPA Watershed Academy - Online Training in Watershed Management

• New ! California Aquatic Bioassessment Workshops (2003-2006) - Including Citizen Monitoring Presentations
  
  
• U.S. EPA and the Center for Watershed Protection's Urban Subwatershed Restoration Manuals (8/17/04)
  
  
• More information on these small watershed restoration manuals (8/17/04)
  
  
• Heal the Bay's & the Southern California Marine Institute's Freshwater & Marine Team Field Guide
  
  
• Simplified Acute Toxicity Testing Ceriodaphnia Protocol  (See Compendium, Section 3.7)
  

Macroinvertebrate Bioassessment Information

• The California Streamside BioSurvey - An Introduction to Using Aquatic Invertebrates as Water Quality Indicators (See Compendium, Section 3.5)

Other Resource Materials

• Cooperative State Research, Extension and Education Services (CSREES) Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring - National Facilitation Project
  
  

• U.S. EPA's Watershed Organizing Guide: Getting in Step: Engaging and Involving Stakeholders in your Watershed (January 2003)
  
  
• Updated ! U.S. EPA's "A Guide to Community Culture and the Environment"
  
  
• U.S. EPA's "Polluted Runoff Urban Issues Summary"
  
  
• U.S. EPA's "National Conference on Urban Stormwater: Enhancing Programs at the Local Level"
  
• University of California Cooperative Extension Rangeland Watershed Program
  
  
• California Association of Resource Conservation Districts
  
  
• Streamkeeper Catalog - Tools
  
• Sierra Nevada Alliance - Watershed Council Toolkit
  
  
• A Directory of California's Volunteer Monitoring Organizations
  
  
• National (USA), Regional, Other States, and Additional (Non-California) Watershed Monitoring Programs
  
• Water Webster: A Web Portal to News, Services, Associations, and Contacts for the Water & Wastewater Industry
  
  

(updated 3/21/08)