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Problem Identification
- Endangered Species
- Endangered
and Threatened Wildlife and Plants
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has created this web page to
keep the public informed of the endangered species list and any
applicable current events. The site contains the current list of
endangered species searchable by state.
- Monitoring
- Index of Watershed Indicators
- This web site enables citizens to view the health of their watersheds
using 17 indicators and includes county-specific rankings for each
of the indicators and a helpful map library.
- Monitoring Water
Quality - This site provides information on methods and tools
to monitor, assess, and report on the health of a waterbody.
- National Directory
of Volunteer Monitoring Programs - This directory lists volunteer
organizations around the country engaged in monitoring rivers, lakes,
estuaries, beaches, wetlands, and ground water, as well as surrounding
lands.
- Section
319 Nonpoint Source National Monitoring Program Successes and Recommendations
November 2000 (preprint) -
This report shares some of the successes and lessons learned from
the National Monitoring Program. Based on these lessons, recommendations
are made to help enhance future watershed projects and state nonpoint
source water quality programs.
- Technical
Monitoring Guidance - EPA developed this site to list helpful
guidance materials.
- Volunteer
Estuary Monitoring: A Methods Manual - This guide describes
the role of volunteer monitoring in state programs and details how
managers can best organize and administer these monitoring programs.
The manual focuses on the concepts and plans developed by the EPA
guide and places them in a nuts-and-bolts context specifically for
volunteer estuary monitoring programs.
- Volunteer
Lake Monitoring: A Methods Manual (PDF) (65 pages, 868KB) - The purpose of this manual
is to present methods for monitoring important lake conditions using
citizen volunteers. This information will be helpful to agencies,
institutions, and private citizens wishing to start new volunteer
monitoring efforts, as well as those who may want to improve an
existing program. The citizen volunteer who uses these techniques
will be able to collect reliable data that can be used with confidence
for a variety of resource management purposes.
- Volunteer
Stream Monitoring: A Methods Manual - This manual is intended
to serve as a tool for program managers who want to launch a new
stream monitoring program or enhance an existing program. Volunteer
Stream Monitoring presents methods that have been adapted from
those used successfully by existing volunteer programs.
- The
Volunteer Monitor's Guide to Quality Assurance Project Plans -
The quality assurance project plan, or QAPP, is a document that
outlines the procedures that those who conduct a monitoring project
will follow to ensure that the data they collect and analyze meet
project requirements. It is an invaluable planning and operating
tool that outlines the project's methods of data collection, storage,
and analysis. It serves not only to convince skeptical data users
about the quality of the project's findings but also to record methods,
goals, and project implementation steps for current and future volunteers
and for those who may wish to use the project's data over time.
- Water
Quality Monitoring Training Program -
The Natural Resources Conservation Service offers a free, self-paced
course to the public. This site provides information on registration
and testing.
- Monitoring Databases and Tools
- Complex Effluent
Toxicity Information System for Personal Computers (PC-CETIS)
- The Complex
Effluent Toxicity Information System (CETIS) is a set of computerized
functions that provide standardized entry, maintenance, storage,
and retrieval of toxicity test data.
- ECOTOX - The ECOTOXicology
database is a source for single-chemical toxicity data for aquatic
life, terrestrial plants, and wildlife.
- Envirofacts
Warehouse - This web site provides access to several EPA databases
that contain information about environmental activities that may
affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States.
- National Water Information
Systems -
Check out this site for water resources data for approximately 1.5
million sites across the nation.
- National Water Quality
Assessment (NAWQA) Program -
The U.S. Geological Survey monitors 59 "study units" in rivers and
streams around the nation. This site provides USGS's findings on
many pollutants, including pesticides, nutrients, and volatile organic
compounds.
- The Quality of Our Nation's
Water, 305(b) Water Quality Report - This site, developed by
EPA's Office of Wate, includes the National Water Quality Inventory
Reports to Congress. Reports from 1994, 1996, and 1998; fact sheets;
and the report brochure can also be viewed on this site.
- Reach
Files - EPA's Reach Files are a series of national hydrologic
databases that uniquely identify and interconnect the stream segments
or "reaches" that compose the country's surface water drainage system.
- STORET - STORET (short
for STOrage and RETrieval) is a repository for water quality, biological,
and physical data and is used by state environmental agencies, EPA,
and other federal agencies, universities, private citizens, and
many others.
- Water Use Data -
The U.S. Geological Survey has put this site together to offer real-time
water data, a suspended sediment database, maps, and GIS data for
water resources.
- Other Databases
- National Drinking Water Contaminant
Occurrence Database - This database contains information on contaminant
occurrences from public and other water sources. This database can
be queried in a number of ways.
- National Inventory of
Dams
- The purpose
of this site is to update the dam inventory data with information
from the states and federal agencies.
- National Oceanic Data Center
(NODC)
- NODC's
primary mission is to ensure that global oceanographic data (physical,
chemical, and biological) collected at great cost is maintained in
a permanent archive that is easily accessible to the world scientific
community and to other users.
- National Resources Inventory
(NRI)
- The
Natural Resources Conservation Service, a division of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture, created this program to gather information on 800,000
sample points on nonfederal land around the nation. This site contains
maps and tables summarizing a variety of findings, including water
quality, wetlands, land capability, and conservation needs.
- National Wetlands
Inventory Center
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The National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service produces information on the characteristics, extent, and status
of the nation's wetlands and deepwater habitats. This database is
used by federal, state, and local agencies; academic institutions;
the U.S. Congress; and the private sector.
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