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Technical Advisory Committee

A Technical Advisory Committee identified and scoped dozens of potential pilot projects for the Puget Sound Coordinated Monitoring Program and selected four of these projects to conduct and complete between July 2008 and  June 30, 2009. These projects were intended to provide feedback for the Governance Committee's work to identify an organizational structure and decision-making process for coordinating regional monitoring and assessment.

The Technical Advisory Committee has had its last meeting.

Committee Roster

Four Pilot Projects

1. Development of Standardized Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs) for Stormwater
   • Update on this project: The SOP QA/QC Pilot Project held a kick off meeting on September 25, 2008. After a very productive first meeting, the group’s focus will be on developing four Standard Operating Procedures related to stormwater monitoring over the next year. The group will also develop a “Glossary of Terms” tailored toward stormwater monitoring.

This group will continue to meet every three weeks. This project is open for anyone to attend. If you would like to be added to the distribution list, please contact Julie Lowe at 360-407-6470 or julie.lowe@ecy.wa.gov.

• Agenda and meeting minutes from 6/25/2009 meeting
• Agenda and meeting minutes from 4/22/2009 meeting
• Agenda and meeting minutes from 3/11/2009 meeting
• Agenda and meeting minutes from 1/27/2009 meeting
• Agenda and meeting minutes from 11/13/2008 meeting
• Agenda and meeting minutes from 10/14/08 meeting
• Agenda and meeting minutes from the 9/25/08 meeting

2. Stream Benthos Gap Analysis Coordination, and Data Management

• Final report
• King County, City of Seattle, Pierce County, and Snohomish County have announced the first release of a stream benthic macroinvertebrate data management system at: http://www.pugetsoundstreambenthos.org/.

Data from 2006 and 2007 are loaded. Data for the 2008 monitoring season were loaded to the system directly by the taxonomic laboratories using the standardized data loading tool, making maintenance of the data sets far more manageable and easier than otherwise would be the case. Pre-2006 data should be loaded this year. This data management system allows for:

• Collaborative data management with professional and consistent management of stream benthos data.
• Enhanced data sharing and comparability between data sets.
• Improved documentation.
• Transparent and repeatable analyses.
• Updating of taxonomic data according to official Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) nomenclature.
• Automatic data loading directly from taxonomic laboratories.
• Data ownership by entities collecting the data.

3. Intercalibration Pilot Study
   Final report and QC reports
    
4. In-Line Ditch Stormwater Treatment Best Management Practice Program

Other Potential Pilot Projects

• Understanding Stormwater Particulate Matter Sampling Techniques
• Stormwater Toxicity Study

Meeting Information

Summaries	Agendas
Summary of 06/10/09 meeting Summary of 04/01/09 meeting Summary of 01/21/09 meeting Summary of 10/14/08 meeting Summary of 5/07/08 meeting Summary of 04/02/08 meeting Summary of 2/13/08 meeting Summary of 11/27/07 meeting Summary of 10/18/07 meeting Summary of 9/27/07 meeting	Agenda for 06/10/09 meeting Agenda for 04/01/09 meeting Agenda for the 01/21/09 meeting Agenda for 10/14/08 meeting Agenda for 5/07/08 meeting Agenda for 4/2/08 meeting Agenda for 2/13/08 meeting Agenda for 11/27/07 meeting Agenda for 10/18/07 meeting Agenda for 9/27/07 meeting