Monitoring Documents and Reports
All reports and other documents produced and/or funded (in whole or in part) by the San Diego Water Board’s SWAMP program are listed below:
SWAMP Documents
- Recommendations for a Southern California Regional Eelgrass Monitoring Program—2018 Update of Bernstein et al. 2011 (2018-July)
- Development of a Monitoring and Assessment Framework for Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) (2018-June)
- Fact Sheet of the San Diego SWAMP program (2018-January)
- Assessment of episodic streams in the San Diego Region (2017-December)
- Microcystin prevalence throughout lentic water bodies in coastal southern California (2017-September)
- Assessing the biological condition of intermittent and ephemeral streams in the San Diego Region (2017- September)
- San Diego Bay debris study (2016-October)
- Benthic cyanotoxins widespread in California streams (2016-September)
- Improving tools for monitoring multiple HAB toxins at the land-sea interface in coastal California (2016-July)
- Development of molecular methods to identify stream algae (2016-June)
- The prevalence of cyanotoxins in southern California waterbodies based on screening assessments and regional monitoring programs (2016-April)
- Assessment of the condition of southern California depressional wetlands (2016-April)
- Detection of caffeine in the streams and rivers within the San Diego region (2015-December)
- Executive Officer Reports on SWAMP
- Report on the detection of caffeine in the San Diego Region's streams and rivers
- Watershed Reports
- San Juan Watershed Report
- Santa Margarita Watershed Report
- San Luis Rey Watershed Report
- Carlsbad Watershed Report
- San Dieguito Watershed Report
- Los Penasquitos Watershed Report
- San Diego Watershed Report
- Pueblo San Diego Watershed Report
- Sweetwater Watershed Report
- Otay Watershed Report
- Tijuana Watershed Report
- Synthesis Report on Stream Assessments in the San Diego Region
Regional Bioassessment Monitoring Program
The regional bioassessment monitoring program is a probability-based program and is facilitated through the Stormwater Monitoring Coalition (SMC). More information on SMC's initiatives can be found at the following links:
- Publications (annual reports, special study reports, and fact sheets)
- Research
Algae as Indicators for Water Body Conditions
The State of California is developing tools to assess water body health through algae as indicators. You can find publications and technical reports here:
