CWT - Technical Support
The Clean Water Team provides technical resources and you can also contact the Clean Water Team for additional technical assistance to help your program (monitoring plans, QAPPs, training, health and safety, event support…).
Clean Water Team Main Pages
Clean Water Team Technical and Organizational Resources (Citizen Monitoring Tools)
- Clean Water Team Guidance Compendium for Monitoring and Assessment Compendium
- Fact Sheets in Section 3 - some available in Spanish
- CWT Tool Box for Citizen Monitoring Programs
This Toolbox has template files and documents that will help you manage and organize your water quality monitoring data. - The Clean Water Team Glossary - A Vocabulary for Water Quality Monitors and Watershed Stewards
- APPS for Water Quality Monitoring and Watershed Programs
- Aquatic Invasive Species
- CWT Summary of Online Storm Water Resources
- Clean Water Team Videos — hosted on YouTube
- SWAMP Field Methods Course: A Multi Media Training Tool for Water Quality Monitoring
The California Citizen Science, Crowdsourcing (CA-CSCS) and STEM Toolkit for Agencies and Tribes Working with Surface Waters and Watersheds STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Other Citizen Monitoring and Community Science Resources
- USEPA Nonpoint Source: Volunteer Monitoring
- Volunteer Stream Monitoring: A Methods manual (PDF) This document covers the basic elements of stream monitoring, how to conduct a watershed survey, how to measure various water quality components, and how to manage and present monitoring data. (EPA 841-B-97-003)
- Volunteer Estuary Monitoring: A Methods Manual (PDF) (2006) This guide describes the role of volunteer monitoring in state programs and details how managers can best organize and administer these monitoring programs. The manual focuses on the concepts and plans developed by the EPA guide and places them in a nuts-and-bolts context specifically for volunteer estuary monitoring programs.
- Volunteer Lake Monitoring: A Methods Manual (PDF) (1991) The purpose of this manual is to present methods for monitoring important lake conditions using citizen volunteers. This information will be helpful to agencies, institutions and private citizens wishing to start new volunteer monitoring efforts, as well as those who may want to improve an existing program. The citizen volunteer who uses these techniques will be able to collect reliable data that can be used with confidence for a variety of resource management purposes. (EPA 440491002)
- USEPA Volunteer Monitoring Can Protect Wetlands
- USEPA (Community & Citizen) Participatory Science for Environmental Protection
- National Water Quality Monitoring Council – Volunteer Monitoring
- USA Volunteer Water Monitoring Network
State Resources for California Watershed Monitoring and Stewardship
- California State Water Resources Control Board (Water Boards)
- State Water Board's Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP)
The program that integrates existing water quality monitoring in the State. - California Water Quality Monitoring Council "My Water Quality"
- California Water Data Science Symposium
- California Environmental Data Exchange Network (CEDEN)
- CA Watershed Assessment Manual (240 Pages)
- California Association of Resource Conservation Districts
- University of California Cooperative Extension Rangeland Ecosystem Services
Federal Resources for Watershed Monitoring and Stewardship
Additional Resource Links
- Aquatic Sensor Workgroup (National Water Quality Monitoring Council)
- Environmental Education
- Environmental Literacy Council - Watersheds
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
- National Environmental Methods Index (NEMI)
- National Water Quality Monitoring Conference Proceedings
- National Weather Service River Forecast Center - Precipitation Data
- River Network Resource Library
- Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project
- San Francisco Estuary Institute
- The National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC)
- University of California Institute for Water Resources
