Resources: Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis

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Helpful Water Quality Monitoring  and Analysis Web pages

• Monitoring and Assessing Water Quality Home
• Aquatic Resources Monitoring
• Assessing and Monitoring Floatable Debris
• Bioassessment Publications
• Biological Assessment Home
• Clean Water Act Analytical Test Methods
• Environmental Monitoring & Assessment Program (EMAP) Home
• EPA's Quality System for Environmental Data and Technology
• Estuary, Coasts, and Oceans Monitoring and Assessment
• Risk Assessment: Environmental Sampling
• River and Stream Monitoring and Assessment
• Volunteer Monitoring
• Wetlands Monitoring and Assessment

Helpful Water Quality Monitoring  and Analysis Documents/Guidance

• Concepts and Approaches for the Bioassessment of Non-wadeable Streams and Rivers (PDF) (25 pp, 379K)
  (EPA 600-R-06-127, September 2006)
• Use of Biological Information to Better Define Designated Aquatic Life Uses in State and Tribal Water Quality Standards: Tiered Aquatic Life Uses (PDF) (208 pp, 2.92Mb)
  (EPA 822-R-05-001, August 2005)
• Stressor Identification Guidance
  (EPA 822-B-00-025, December 2000)
• Rapid Bioassessment Protocols for Use in Streams and Wadeable Rivers: Periphyton, Benthic Macroinvertebrates, and Fish, 2nd Edition
  (EPA 841-B-99-002, 1999)
• Biological Criteria: Technical Guidance for Survey Design and Statistical Evaluation of Biosurvey Data (PDF)  (47 pp, 3.2MB)
  (EPA 822-B97-002, December 1997)
• Biological Criteria: Technical Guidance for Streams and Small Rivers, Revised Edition (PDF) (174 pp, 4.25MB)
  (EPA 822-B-96-001, 1996)
• Guidance for Data Useability in Risk Assessment
  (EPA 540-G-90-008, April 1992)