Puget Sound Coordinated Monitoring Program > Exploratory Committee

Exploratory Committee

An exploratory committee that preceded the Puget Sound Monitoring Consortium recognized the need for coordinated monitoring to control costs and provide better information to strengthen our decision making processes. The exploratory committee submitted a report and recommendations in March 2007. They looked at coordinated monitoring programs that are up and running elsewhere in the country; the detailed analysis in the report provided an excellent starting point for the Governance Committee’s efforts. The Legislature provided Ecology with funding to take the next steps to develop a coordinated regional monitoring program during the 2007-2009 biennium.

2007 Report

• Surface Water and Aquatic Habitat Monitoring Advisory Committee Report and Recommendations (3/9/07)
• Surface Water and Aquatic Habitat Monitoring Advisory Committee Report and Recommendations (1/11/07)
• Appendix C - Abridged List Of Watershed Health And Salmon Recovery Databases Reported—Puget Sound Basin (WRIAs 1-19)

Regional Monitoring Workshop Presentations

The Exploratory Committee hosted a regional monitoring workshop on October 19, 2006 to discuss coordinated monitoring programs elsewhere in the country and learn from their experiences.

• Cooperative Regional Monitoring: The Southern California Experience
• Stormwater Monitoring Coalition and Other Regional/Statewide Collaborative Approaches in California Washington Regional Monitoring Workshop
• Regional Monitoring: The Lessons from San Francisco Bay

Contact Karen Dinicola, Project Manager, at 360-407-6550 for more information.