AN OVERVIEW

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AN OVERVIEW Jay A. Davis San Francisco Estuary
Institute
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Under New Management
THE OLD RMP Rainer Hoenicke Bruce Thompson TRC,
SC RMP Staff
THE NEW RMP Jay Davis Sarah Lowe Bruce
Thompson TRC, SC RMP Staff
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My Priorities for the RMP

• Technical excellence
• Peer Review
• Publication
• Data interpretation
• Mass budgets and modeling prediction
• Current, well-organized web site
• Responsive to deadlines and budgets
• Retain our excellent staff

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RMP Redesign Process

• Five Year Review Panel (1997)
• RMP Workgroups
• Chlorinated Hydrocarbons (1998)
• Sources, Pathways, and Loadings (1998)
• Sediment (1998)
• Registered Pesticides (1998)
• Bioaccumulation (1999)
• Design Integration (2000)
• Sediment to Biota Transfer (2001)
• Exposure and Effects (2001)
• Role of Regional Board Karen Taberski
• Reconvene Review Panel in 2003

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RMP Objectives (1998)

• Describe patterns and trends in contaminant
  concentration and distribution
• Compare monitoring information to relevant water
  quality objectives and other guidelines
• Describe general sources and loading of
  contamination to the Estuary
• Measure contaminant effects on selected parts of
  the Estuary ecosystem
• Synthesize and distribute information from a
  range of sources to present a more complete
  picture of the sources, distribution, fates, and
  effects of contaminants in the Estuary ecosystem

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RMP Components

• Program Management
• Information Management
• Status and Trends
• Pilot Studies
• Special Studies

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2) Information Management

• Data Management (Cristina Grosso)
• Web Site (Patricia Chambers)
• Information Dissemination (Patricia Chambers)
• Annual Reporting
• Pulse of the Estuary (Mike May)
• Annual Data Summary (Cristina Grosso)
• Quality Assurance (Don Yee)
• Data Integration (Ben Greenfield)

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Data Integration
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3) Status and Trends

• Field Work (AMS, SFEI)
• Water Chemistry (UCSC, Brooks-Rand, Axys)
• Aquatic Toxicity (PERL)
• Fixed station, Episodic
• Sediment Chemistry (UCSC, Brooks-Rand, BACWA)
• Sediment Toxicity (GCML)
• Factors Controlling Suspended Sediment (USGS)
• Hydrography and Phytoplankton (USGS)
• Bivalve Chemistry (DFG)
• Fish Chemistry (MLML, DFG) Ben Greenfield

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Water and Sediment Sampling
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Analytes
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4) Pilot Studies

• Atmospheric Deposition (Mercury Deposition
  Network)
• Estuary Interface Pilot Study Jon Leatherbarrow
• Exposure and Effects Pilot Study (EEPS!)

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Contaminant Effects
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5) Special Studies

• Evaluation of Contaminants of Concern
• Mass Budget Models
• SPL Literature Review and Planning
• SPL Field Studies

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Sources, Pathways, and Loading
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Contaminant Profile Copper/Nickel

• Synthesize and distribute information from a
  range of sources
• Regional Board perspective Richard Looker
• South Bay TMDL Tom Grieb
• North of Dumbarton TMDL Tom Grovhoug

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In Closing

• The RMP is a world-class monitoring program
• We want to continue to improve
• Present challenge in managing the Program is in
  finding the best way to meet the new objectives
  within the existing budget

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