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SWiMS 2008
7th Annual Surface Water Monitoring and Standards (SWiMS) Meeting
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Information from SWiMS 2007, SWiMS 2006, SWiMS 2005, SWiMS 2004, SWiMS 2003 and SWiMS 2002 is also available. Please contact the SWiMS Coordinator by email at Sarah Lehmann (lehmann.sarah@epa.gov) or by telephone at (312) 353-4328 if you have any questions or have any recommendations for future meetings.
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SWiMS 2008
General Information
The SWiMS meeting is an annual State/Tribal/EPA technical coordinators meeting
aimed at sharing monitoring successes and challenges, learning about the
most up-to-date scientific information, and discussing programmatic issues.
The meeting covered a wide range of monitoring, standards, and assessment
topics including issues related to Cladophora, nutrient criteria, mussels, source water assessments, mining, and others. Each session
typically includes 3-4 presentations on different scientific, technical, and/or
policy-related issues. While the meeting is aimed at States and Tribes, we also encourage federal
agencies, the regulated community, academics, environmental organizations,
and others to attend.
Participant Information: Approximately 200 people attended the 2008 SWiMS meeting. The registration list is available here (15p, 83KB).
Agenda and Presentation Information
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The 2008 SWiMS agenda is available here in pdf for download (5p, 41KB).
SWiMS Agenda Session:
- Pre-SWiMS Meeting: Update on Nutrient Criteria Development in R5 States
- Demonstration: Data to Maps
- Plenary Session
- Concurrent Sessions
- Anti-degradation Stakeholders Forum
- Sanitary Surveys and Predictive Models: Success and Opportunities for the Future
- Statistical Tools for Analyzing Nutrient Data for Criteria Development
- Making Assessment Decisions: Combining Multiple Types of Data
- Water Quality Standards: New Criteria
- Probabilistic Surveys: Update of Regional Activities
- Monitoring our Source Waters and SDWA/CWA Integration
- Monitoring and Assessing the Great Lakes
- Post-Implementation Monitoring
- Freshwater Mussels and Water Quality
- Pesticide Session 1- State/Tribe & Office of Pesticide Program (OPP) Water Quality Monitoring and Reporting
- Monitoring and the Increase in Mining Activities in Region 5
- Pesticide Session 2 – OPP Benchmarks, States’ Water Quality Standards, and OW National and GLI Criteria
Tuesday, March 18
Pre-SWiMS Meeting: Update on Nutrient Criteria Development in R5 States, Brian Thompson, EPA Region 5 Objective: Region 5 States provided an update on progress over the past year, expected milestones this year, and opportunities for stakeholder input over the next year. (presentations coming soon) - Nutrient Standards for Illinois Surface Waters, Paul Terrio, United State Geological Survey - Status of Indiana’s Nutrient Criteria Developments, Shivi Selvaratnam, Indiana Department of Environmental Management - Nutrient Criteria Development in Michigan, Sylvia Heaton, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality - Minnesota’s Approach to Nutrient
Criteria Development: Brief update
on lake & river criteria, Steve Heiskary, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency - Empirical Evidence Supporting
Development of Nutrient Water
Quality Standards for Rivers and - Wisconsin Phosphorus Criteria for
Streams/Rivers, Lakes/Reservoirs
and Great Lakes, Jim Bauman, Wisconsin Department of Enviromental Quality - ORSANCO Ohio River
nutrient criteria
development, Greg Youngstrom, ORSANCO |
Demonstration of Data to Maps (D2M), Janice Huang, EPA Region 5 Please note a complete workshop on D2M will be at the National NPS Monitoring Conference in September, 2008. Objective: Locally-led watershed projects need to be able to show the public, partners and others where water quality problems are occurring in their watershed. Smaller organizations tend to be more focused on implementation and may not have the available personnel expertise or technology to pull together sampling results in a way to clearly demonstrate the water quality of their watershed. To address this need, working with local watershed groups, USEPA Region 5 developed Data2Maps (D2M). D2M is a custom Excel application in which users can overlay their sampling data on static maps and do preliminary assessment and analyses. The outputs can be printed directly from D2M or pasted into other applications (e.g., PowerPoint, MSWord) for outreach and reporting materials. Session Abstract (1p, 24KB) Other Materials - Creating Maps for Data2Maps (3p, 509KB) |
Plenary Session: Cladophora and its Impacts: Ecological Links, Monitoring, Pathogens, and Management Implications, Kristi Minahan, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources - Surveying for Cladophora distribution & water chemistry on the nearshore of Western L. Michigan, 2004-2007, Paul Garrison, WI Dept. of Natural Resources - Impact of Cladophora mats on E. coli concentrations in beach water in Door County, WI, Greg Kleinheinz, R.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Other Information Related to Cladophora: |
Session 2A: Anti-degradation Stakeholders Forum, David Pfeifer, EPA Region 5 Objective: This session is intended to encourage participants to think about and discuss how antidegradation ought to work. Environmental advocacy groups in the Region have been prepared detailed analyses of several States' antidegradation policies and procedures as well as suggested revisions to improve the antidegradation policies and their implementation. Speakers Include: - Albert Ettinger, Environmental Law and Policy Center; - Betsy Lawton, Midwest Environmental Advocates; - Chris Sigford, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy. Session Abstract (1p, 9KB) |
Session 2B: Sanitary Surveys and Predictive Models: Success and Opportunities for the Future, David Rockwell, GLNPO and Holly Wirick, EPA Region 5 - Sanitary Surveys: Success and
Opportunities for the Future, Dr. Greg Kleinheinz, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Dr. Julie Kinzelman, Racine Health Department; - Virtual Beach and Beach Manager Tools, Kurt Wolfe, ORD-Athens - Developing Water and Land Tools to Forecast
Bacterial Exposure in Beach Settings, Advanced Monitoring Initiative, Richard Zepp, ORD-Athens; Richard Zdanowicz, EPA-Region 5 - Beach Models: Predicting Water Quality, Illinois Department of Public Health DVD on three predictive models used in the Great Lakes To receive a copy of the DVD, please send a request to Holiday Wirick at wirick.holiday@epa.gov |
Wednesday, March 19
Session 3A: Statistical Tools for Analyzing Nutrient Data for Criteria Development, Dr. Michael Paul, Tetra Tech, Inc. Objective: Dr. Paul will be presenting an overview of relevant statistical tools for developing nutrient criteria, from a perspective of how non-statisticans can effectively use them. Other Information Related to Nutrients: |
Session 3B and 4B: Making Assessment Decisions: Combining Multiple Types of Data, Gregg Good, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Session Abstract (1p, 11KB) 9:35 IA and Weight of Evidence – A Historical Perspective, Including the Nuts and Bolts, Chris Yoder, Midwest Biodiversity Institute 9:00 IA and Weight of Evidence – Region 5 Position and Perspectives, Donna Keclik, EPA Region 5 9:20 Illinois Perspectives, Roy Smogor, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency 9:35 Minnesota Perspectives, Bill Cole, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency 10:30 Ohio Perspectives, Jeff DeShon, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency |
Session 4A: Water Quality Standards: New Criteria, David Pfeifer, EPA Region 5 - Water Quality Criteria/Standards:International Trends and Application, Dr. William Stubblefield, Oregon State University |
Session 5A: Probabilistic Surveys: Update of Regional Activities, Sarah Lehmann, EPA Region 5 - National Lakes Assessment Project (NLAP): Enhancements for Minnesota, Steve Heiskary, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency -Assessment of Wisconsin’s Stream Resources Using Probabilistic Sampling, Mike Miller, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource - Analysis of Wadeable Stream Survey Data from Region V: Effects of Spatial Survey Design on Estimates of Biological Condition and Stressor Awareness, Chris Yoder, Midwest Biodiversity Institute Other information related to probability sampling: |
Session 5B: Monitoring our Source Waters and SDWA/CWA Integration, Cary McElhinney, EPA Region 5 Objective: Harnessing research, bio-monitoring and other Clean Water Act tools, this session provides examples of assessing and protecting our source water in action. - Upper Mississippi Water Quality Monitoring Network: Status and Future, Joel Allen (USEPA ORD), Bill Franz (USEPA Reg. 5), Sri Panguluri (Shaw Environmental) - Drinking Water Source Protection through Effective Use of the TMDL Processes, Laura Blake, The Cadmus Group, Inc. - EPA’s Experimental Stream Facility: Design and Research, Christopher T. Nietch, PhD, EPA-Office of Research and Development |
Session 6A: Monitoring and Assessing the Great Lakes, Sarah Lehmann, EPA Region 5 - Screening and surveillance for chemicals of emerging concern in the Great Lakes Basin, Ted Smith, EPA-Great Lakes National Program Office - Great Lakes Monitoring, Judy Beck, EPA-Great Lakes National Program Office |
| Session 6B: Post-Implementation Monitoring, Gary Kohlhepp, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Objective: Federal, state, tribal, and local agencies spend a great deal of staff time and money implementing water quality protection and restoration projects. Continued support for such activities requires evaluating the effectiveness of these projects. This session describes some monitoring approaches that have been used to evaluate changes in water quality after project implementation. - From headwaters to mouth: Tribal stream and wetland restoration as a top-down model for successful watershed restoration, Jim Snitgen, Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin - The effect of stream restoration projects on sediment, macroinvertebrates and fish in the Manistee River watershed, Stephanie Ogren, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians - Stormwater BMP Monitoring – Rain Gardens and Fertilizer Runoff, John Barten, Three Rivers Park District - Post-implementation monitoring in the Dead River, Gary Kohlhepp, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality - TMDL Implementation Tracking: Current Status and Future Needs for States in EPA Regions 5, 6, and 10, Laura Blake, The Cadmus Group, Inc |
Thursday, March 20
Session 7A: Freshwater Mussels and Water Quality, Ed Hammer, EPA Region 5 - A comprehensive assessment of the hazards of current use pesticides to native freshwater mussels, W. Gregory Cope, North Carolina State University -Effects of water temperature on early life stages of freshwater mussels: Implications for effluent criteria and climate change. Tamara J. Pandolfo, North Carolina State University. - Reproductive Effects of the
Pharmaceutical Fluoxetine on
Native Freshwater Mussels, W. Gregory Cope, North Carolina State University |
Session 7B: Pesticide Session 1- State/Tribe & Office of Pesticide Program (OPP) Water Quality Monitoring and Reporting, Speakers Include:
Session Abstract (1p, 9KB) |
Session 8A: Monitoring and the Increase in Mining Activities in Region 5, Amanda Bosak, Bay Mills Indian Community, and Dan Cozza, EPA Region 5 - Comparison of Predicted and Actual Water Quality at Hardrock Mines, Jim Kuipers, Kuipers & Associates (via conference phone) -Monitoring the Distribution and Movement of Mine Wastes in Lake Superior, Estabon Chiriboga, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission - Tribal concerns regarding monitoring of mining activities within the Mesabi Iron Range, Nancy Schuldt, Fond du Lac Band |
Session 8B: Pesticide Session 2 – OPP Benchmarks, States’ Water Quality Standards, and OW National and GLI Criteria, Angela Preimesberger, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Session Abstract (1p, 9KB) - Angela Preimesberger, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency - Lisa Reynolds Fogarty, U.S. Geological Survey Michigan Water Science Center; Gary Kohlhepp, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality; - Brian Koch, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency |