2000 Annual Results

Contents

1. Introduction (PDF-1.3MB)
2. Water Monitoring (PDF-1.25MB)
3. Sediment Monitoring (PDF-1.3MB)
4. Bivalve Monitoring (PDF-904K)
5. Description of Methods (PDF- 524K)
6. QA/QC Tables-In Progress
7. Data Tables (PDF-792K)

Tables

1.1 Program participants

Overview

The overall goal of the San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances (RMP) is to provide and interpret data to help address the informational needs of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board), regional stakeholders,and environmental managers. Five major objectives of the RMP providea framework for monitoring activities and guide efforts to respondto more specific management questions:

1. Describe patterns and trends in contaminant concentration and distribution.
2. Describe general sources and loadings of contamination to the Estuary.
3. Measure contaminant effects on selected parts of the Estuary ecosystem.
4. Compare monitoring information to relevant water quality objectives and other guidelines.
5. Synthesize and distribute information from a range of sources to present a more complete picture of the sources, distribution, fates, and effects of contaminants in the Estuary ecosystem.

• 2000 RMP Monitoring Results present comprehensive data results, including data tables, discussions of results, and charts, from the Status and Trends Monitoring component.
• The Pulse of the Estuary—2000 Update summarizes current chemical contaminant problems in the Estuary and discusses efforts by environmental managers to reduce existing problems and prevent the development of new ones.

In 2000, the Regional Board and seventy-two federal, state, and local agencies and companies funded the RMP (see Table 1.1). These RMP participants also assisted in directing the RMP by having representatives on the Steering and Technical Review committees.