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Other Monitoring Programs for Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic Pollutants (PBTs)OTHER NATIONAL and CONTINENTAL PROGRAMS:
Northern Contaminants Program (NCP)
The Northern Contaminants Program (NCP) was established in response to studies that showed the presence of contaminants in the Arctic ecosystem. Many of these contaminants have no Arctic sources and yet some are found at high levels in animals at the top of the Arctic food chain and in humans. The three main contaminants groups of concern are persistent organic pollutants (POPs), heavy metals and radionuclides. National Dioxin Air Monitoring Network (NDAMN) In June 1998, the U.S. EPA established the National Dioxin Air Monitoring Network (NDAMN). The primary goal of NDAMN is determine the temporal and geographical variability of atmospheric CDDs, CDFs and coplanar PCBs at rural and nonimpacted locations throughout the United States. Two reports are also available:
Environment Canada’s National Air Pollution Surveillance (NAPS)
Network
Through the National Air Pollution Surveillance (NAPS) network, data are collected on ambient air levels of a variety of toxics at rural, suburban, city-centre and industrial sites in Canada. This effort is carried out in cooperation with provincial environmental and municipal agencies.
Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project (WACAP)
The Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project (WACAP) was developed to determine the environmental risks in western national parks from long-range transport of airborne contaminants. Trans-Pacific Transport Monitoring EffortsThe University of Washington-Bothell and Oregon State University have established atmospheric deposition and transport research stations in the Pacific Northwest. EPA’s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) is a research program to develop the tools necessary to monitor and assess the status and trends of national ecological resources. EMAP's goal is to develop the scientific understanding for translating environmental monitoring data from multiple spatial and temporal scales into assessments of current ecological condition and forecasts of future risks to our natural resources.
San Francisco Estuary Institute’s Regional Monitoring Program (RMP)
for Trace Substances
SFEI was founded as a non-profit organization in 1994 to foster the development of the scientific understanding needed to protect and enhance the San Francisco Estuary. The RMP is SFEI's largest program and monitors contamination in the Estuary. It provides water quality regulators information they need to manage the Estuary effectively.
New Jersey Atmospheric Deposition Network (NJADN)
The New Jersey Atmospheric Deposition Network (NJADN) was established in 1997 to provide quantitative estimates of toxic chemicals and metals plus nitrogen loading to New Jersey, identify potential sources for the air toxic chemicals, and determine relative atmospheric loadings to selected watersheds based on availability of loading data from other sources. See also (NJADN). EPA’s Lake Michigan Mass Balance (LMMB) Study The Lake Michigan Mass Balance Study (LMMB), began in 1994, focuses four chemicals (PCBs, trans-nonachlor, atrazine, and mercury) that represent larger classes of pollutants. The LMMB will provide a better understanding of where these chemicals are entering the Lake and what happens to them as they move through the ecosystem. The study also will identify relative pollutant loads from rivers, air deposition, and sediment resuspension, and will predict the benefits associated with reducing loads. Summary results of the LMMB may also be found in the Lake Michigan Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP) USGS Toxic Substances Hydrology Program: Watershed- and Regional-Scale Investigations The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Toxic Substances Hydrology (Toxics) Program was initiated in 1982 to provide objective and reliable scientific information needed to develop policies and practices that help avoid exposure to toxic substances, mitigate environmental deterioration from contaminants, provide cost-effective cleanup and waste-disposal strategies, and reduce future risk of contamination. USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program In more than 50 major river basins and aquifers covering nearly all 50 states, USGS scientists collect and interpret data about water chemistry, hydrology, land use, stream habitat, and aquatic life. In selected basins, PBTs are measured.
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