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1. Utah’s Water Quality Data
KATE TIPPLE
DEQ – DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY
JORDAN RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL MEETING
FEBRUARY 22, 2012

2. Data: From River to Database
• MONITORING FOR DATA
• DATA MANAGEMENT
• FUTURE GOALS

3. Monitoring for
Data
• CWA Requirements
• Strategic Monitoring
Plan
• Cooperative
Monitoring

4. Monitoring for Clean Water Act
DWQ is responsible for implementing and enforcing
Clean Water Act
Monitoring is performed to:
Assess conditions
Set state standards
Ensure current health and environmental standards are met

5. Monitoring for Clean Water Act
Integrated Report Nonpoint Quality TMDL Groundwater Permitting
Source Grants Assurance Reporting
Report
Timeframe Due April 1st of even Required annually Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing
number years (e.g.
2002, 2004)
CWA • 40 CFR 130.8(b)(2) Section 319(h)(11) 40 CFR 31.45 Section 303(d) N/A Inspection
Requirement and 130.8(b)(1) Reports
• Section 314(a)(1)(F)
• Section 303(d)
Objective 305(b) Reporting. The The State reports on Ensures The TMDL section Utah Geological Uniform
primary assessment of the activities, reliability of the prepares a report Survey Aquifer Enforcement
state water quality; summary of procedures used identifying the Classification Oversight System
leads to the projects, to obtain data for cause(s) and Reports (DWQ (UEOS) Report
development of water environmental all reports. source(s) of the reviews), Water-
quality management accomplishments, impairment, the Resources
plans. federal consistency, amount of each Investigation
status of grants, pollutant that Reports (Prepared
Clean Lake Report. reductions in comes from point by USGS with
State reports on the nonpoint source sources and cooperation of the
status and trends of loadings. Water nonpoint sources, DWQ).
water quality in lakes quality monitoring the background or
included in 305(b) natural
303(d) List. State report. component of the
identifies waters that pollutant is also
are impaired; causes quantified,
and sources of allocation of
impairment, prioritizes reduction and
waters targeted for establishment of
TMDL development endpoints.

6. UDWQ’s Strategic Monitoring Plan
A Tiered and Adaptive Framework

7. UDWQ’s Strategic Monitoring Plan
A Rotating Basin Approach
Water year – October 1 through September 30
Jordan River-Utah Lake Basins sampled 2009, 2010, 2011,
2012

8. UDWQ’s Cooperative Monitoring
Exchange State DOH Laboratory resources for field
sampling efforts
Annual training, guidance, SOP documentation
Cooperators operate under DWQ’s QAPP
State manages data
Salt Lake County
Salt Lake City
Central Utah Water
Conservation District
Jordan River/Farmington Bay
Water Quality Council

9. UDWQ’s Data
Management
• Data Management
History
• Quality Assurance
• New Data
Management
• Data Validation
• Database Use

10. UDWQ’s Data Management History
Local Version of STORET
Software-dependent
“Data request”-driven sharing
No longer supported by EPA
Replaced with Water Quality
Exchange - “WQX”

11. UDWQ’s Quality Assurance
DEQ Quality Management Plan (QMP)
DWQ Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP)
Project/Program Sampling Analysis Plans (SAPs)
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Documentation online after March 15, 2012
http://www.WaterQuality.Utah.gov/Monitoring

12. UDWQ’s Data Management
AWQMS/WQX
Utah installed “out-of-the-box” AWQMS database
Web-based application
Migrated all “historic” data
Parallel to EPA’s WQX database
Currently in-development to add enhancements
Data validation tools
Data query tools
..and more
AWQMS User’s Community
“Community Software” approach

13. UDWQ’s Data Validation
Streamlined data processing
Automated validation
Data Status: Preliminary v. Final
Internal threshold analyses
Variety of access rights
Flexible design

14. UDWQ’s Database Use
Submit data to EPA
Internal access to data for CWA reporting needs
External access to Cooperators for data submission
and data access
Manage and
store data

15. DWQ Additional
E. coli Data Biological and
Physical Data
Macroinvertebrate
Data
QC QC
Cooperators
QC
Field Data Field Data
QC QC
UDWQ’s
Lab Chemistry QC Database QC E. coli Data
Data
Validation
Internal Data
Users
EPA’s External Data
WQX Users Cooperative
Data Users
Database

16. UDWQ’s
Database
A demonstration of the
new DWQ Database

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Coming soon

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Coming soon

40. UDWQ’s Goals
Data Collection Data Management
Volunteer monitoring Public access to
Field audits database
Long-term monitoring Credible data criteria
instrumentation
SAPs

41. Thank you!

42. UDWQ Contacts
JAMES HARRIS
JAMESHARRIS@UTAH.GOV
801-536-4360
KATE TIPPLE
KTIPPLE@UTAH.GOV
801-536-4367
TRISHA JOHNSON
TBJOHNSON@UTAH.GOV
801-536-4193