Web Portal Partners

The California Water Quality Monitoring Council is working with a number of expert stakeholder work groups to develop theme-based water quality web portals.  Several additional organizations actively work with the Monitoring Council to provide water quality information.  These web portals also feature information from a number of other agencies and organizations.

Theme-Specific Work Groups

• Is our water safe to drink?
  • Safe Drinking Water Workgroup
  • Groundwater
    • Groundwater Ambient Monitoring Program (GAMA) of the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB)
• Is it safe to swim in our waters?
  • Safe-to-Swim Workgroup
• Is it safe to eat fish and shellfish from our waters?
  • Safe to Eat Workgroup (formerly known as the Bioaccumulation Oversight Group (BOG)) of the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP)
• Are our aquatic ecosystems healthy?
  • Wetlands
    • California Wetland Monitoring Workgroup (CWMW)
  • Streams, Rivers & Lakes
    • Healthy Watersheds Partnership
  • Estuaries - initially focusing on the SF Bay-Delta Estuary
    • California Estuary Monitoring Workgroup
  • Ocean and Coastal Waters
    • Rocky Intertidal Habitats (Tide Pools)
      • Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network (MARINe)
• What stressors and processes affect our water quality?

Organizations Actively Working with the Monitoring Council

• California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW)
  
  
• California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
  
  
• California Department of Water Resources (DWR)
  
  
• Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
  
  
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
• Region 9, San Francisco
  
  
• Interagency Ecological Program (IEP)
  
  
• Heal the Bay
  
  
• Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
  
  
• Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy
  
  
• San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI)
  
  
• Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP)
  
  
• State and Federal Contractors Water Agency (SFCWA)
  
  
• State and Regional Water Boards
• Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP)
  
  
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  
  
• Water Education Foundation
  
  
• 34 North

Other Sources of Portal Information

• California Local Environmental Health Agencies (CEHA)
  
  
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)