The Water Board Monitoring Landscape Academy Hydromodification Workshop May 9, 2013

The Water Board Monitoring
Landscape
Academy Hydromodification Workshop
May 9, 2013
eric berntsen
State Water Resources Control Board
What are WE doing here?
(in terms of hydromodification monitoring)
• Rivers and Streams Portal
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• CalTrans Permit/401
• Moving towards a Watershed Framework
Caltrans MS4 Monitoring
Question
• Do Department new development and
redevelopment projects cause a
decrease in lateral (bank) and vertical
(channel bed) stability in receiving
stream channels?
– What’s the analysis domain?
Mendibury Creek Monitoring
Question
• Will the project cause a decrease in
lateral (bank) and vertical (channel
bed) stability in Mendibury Creek?
– What’s the analysis domain?
– Monitoring methodology?
State Water Board’s Watershed
Management Initiative (1996)
“water quality and ecosystem problems are best
prioritized, addressed, and solved at the local
watershed level rather than at the individual
discharger, waterbody, or state agency level……”
Thanks Dominic Roques
Overland
flow, rilling
& gullying
(OF)
Infiltration
and
groundwater
recharge
(GW)
Interflow
(shallow
groundwat
er mvmt.)
(IF)
Evapotranspi
ration
(ET)
Delivery of
sediment to
waterbody
(DS)
Delivery of
organic
matter to
waterbody
(DO)
Chemical/b
iological
transforma
tions (CBT)
Streams
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Wetland
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Lake
Large
rivers
X
X
Marine
nearshore
X
X
Groundwate
r aquifers
X
X
Oki 2009
Eric Berntsen
916-341-5911
[email protected]