The Pulse of the Bay: The 25th Anniversary of the RMP

Download the Pulse of the Bay! This report from the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay features articles on the four major pathways by which pollutants enter the Bay: municipal wastewater, industrial wastewater, stormwater, and dredging and dredged sediment disposal.  Each article provides a basic introduction to the pathway and discusses the regulatory framework, recent findings, and future challenges.  The report also includes some of the latest highlights from monitoring of important parameters such as nutrients, emerging contaminants, mercury, PCBs, and selenium.    

Hard copies of the 25th anniversary edition of the Pulse of the Bay are disappearing fast!  This edition celebrates the 25th anniversary of the RMP with a look back at the history of the program, along with articles on emerging contaminants, nutrients, and the Bay margins. Other highlights of this edition of the Pulse are the early indications of the effects of five years of epic drought followed by a similarly historic wet season in 2016/2017.