OVERVIEW OF WATER QUALITY INDICES

OVERVIEW OF WATER QUALITY INDICES

Recorded during the 2019 CWBSS's Concurrent Session: Community Water Science Workshop

Nick Martorano, Director of the California Water Quality Monitoring Council

Ali Dunn, Senior SWAMP Program Chief at the State Water Resources Control Board.
She is the lead of the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program Unit
and chair of the Healthy Watersheds Partnership.

Analysis and interpretation of water quality and aquatic ecosystem monitoring data can be challenging and complicated. Water quality indices are often used to summarize and report complex data in simple and consistent terms (e.g., poor to good) for specific beneficial uses of water such as aquatic life. We will take a high-level view of the various grading systems, or water quality indices, used throughout the State and how these tools can inform future monitoring and management/restoration actions.

https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/resources/data_databases/wq_science_symposium.html

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