Since 2011, the RMP has collaborated with county stormwater programs to fund watershed reconnaissance of PCBs and mercury and identify especially polluted watersheds within larger areas of older urban and industrial land use. Recently, more intensive data collection has focused on three watersheds in the region to help calibrate the Watershed Dynamic Model. These monitoring efforts will soon include a new remote sampler in tidal areas downstream from suspected PCB sources.
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Recent Publications
Regional Watershed Spreadsheet Model (RWSM): 2024
The San Francisco Bay Regional Watershed Spreadsheet Model (RWSM) was developed within the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) to estimate average annual regional and sub-regional scale…
Integrated Watershed Modeling and Monitoring Framework to Support the Regional Monitoring Program
The Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) is transitioning from a watershed program predominantly using monitoring data and data-driven load estimation methods to support management decisions on polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs…