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Illinois Water Monitoring Strategy ILLINOIS WATER MONITORING STRATEGY 2007-2012 Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Bureau of Water Springfield, IL September 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS OVERVIEW OF MONITORING STRATEGY ......................................................................... 1 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 3 MONITORING OBJECTIVES ................................................................................................... 4 MONITORING DESIGN ............................................................................................................ 8 Water Quality Monitoring Programs ..................................................................................... 8 Ambient Water Quality Monitoring Network..................................................................11 Intensive Basin Survey Monitoring Program ..................................................................15 Facility-Related Stream Survey Monitoring Program .....................................................17 Ambient Lake Monitoring Program.................................................................................17 Illinois Clean Lakes Program...........................................................................................20 Volunteer Lakes Monitoring Program.............................................................................20 Lake Michigan Monitoring Program ...............................................................................21 Watershed-Based Monitoring Program ...........................................................................27 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permittee Self-Monitoring ...............27 Municipal and Industrial Effluent Monitoring Program..................................................27 Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program...........................................................................28 Groundwater Monitoring Program ..................................................................................29 Overview of Major Monitoring Gaps and Weaknesses and Improvement Efforts Planned for 2007 through 2012........................................................................................33 Planned Monitoring Efforts for 2007-2012 .....................................................................36 Potential Monitoring Efforts for 2007-2012....................................................................46 ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS..........................................................................................48 Overview................................................................................................................................48 Beneficial Uses and Water Quality Standards.......................................................................48 Indicators of Environmental Condition in Surface Waters....................................................52 Indicators of Environmental Condition in Groundwater .......................................................52 Recommendations and Strategies for Improvement..............................................................55 QUALITY ASSURANCE...........................................................................................................58 Bureau of Water Quality System ...........................................................................................58 Bureau of Water Quality System Goals and Objectives........................................................58 Quality Assurance Tools and Practices..................................................................................58 Recommendations and Strategies for Improvement..............................................................62 i DATA MANAGEMENT.............................................................................................................64 Surface Water.........................................................................................................................64 Laboratory Results and Corresponding Sample Information for Physicochemical Conditions in Water, Sediment, or Fish Tissue .............................64 Field-Measured Results and Corresponding Sample Information for Physicochemical Conditions in Water.......................................................................64 Results and Information from Biological and Physical Habitat Monitoring ...................65 Results of Whole Effluent Toxicity Testing ....................................................................65 Information on Assessments of Use Attainment .............................................................66 Groundwater ..........................................................................................................................66 Groundwater Monitoring Data.........................................................................................66 Recommendations and Strategies for Improvement..............................................................67 Improvements in Storage .................................................................................................68 Improvements in Retrieval and Accessibility..................................................................68 Improvements in Timing..................................................................................................69 DATA ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT .................................................................................70 Overview................................................................................................................................70 Data Solicitation.....................................................................................................................70 REPORTING ...............................................................................................................................71 Illinois Integrated Water Quality Report and Section 303(d) List - 2006 .............................71 Section 319 Nonpoint Source Reports...................................................................................71 Beaches Act Reports..............................................................................................................71 Intensive Basin Survey Reports.............................................................................................71 Specific Basin Reports...........................................................................................................71 Illinois Clean Lake Monitoring Program Reporting..............................................................72 Lake Michigan Monitoring Program .....................................................................................72 Total Maximum Daily Load Reports.....................................................................................72 Reporting of Whole Effluent Toxicity Testing......................................................................72 Fish Contaminant Monitoring Reporting...............................................................................72 Illinois Groundwater Protection Program Biennial Comprehensive Status and Self-Assessment Reports...........................................................................................73 PROGRAMMATIC EVALUATION..........................................................................................74 ii GENERAL SUPPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING.............................................75 Current Staff and Training.....................................................................................................75 Current Laboratory Resources ...............................................................................................75 Current Funding.....................................................................................................................75 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................80 APPENDICES .............................................................................................................................83 Appendix A. Laboratory and Field Parameters Assessed in Bureau of Water Monitoring Programs..................................................................................85 Appendix B. Illinois EPA Ambient Water Quality Monitoring Network – 2006 ................92 Appendix C. Illinois EPA Intensive Basin Survey Program ............................................. 111 Appendix D. Illinois EPA Ambient Lake Monitoring Program........................................ 119 Appendix E. Illinois EPA Fish Contaminant Monitoring.................................................. 129 LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Primary objectives of Bureau of Water monitoring programs and the extent to which each program meets its primary objectives............................. 9 Table 2. Illinois EPA water monitoring program design summary......................................10 Table 3. Bureau of Water monitoring efforts for 2007 - 2012..............................................35 Table 4. Beneficial uses of Illinois waters and applicable water quality standards..............50 Table 5. Environmental indicators used by the Illinois EPA Bureau of Water ....................53 Table 6. Proposed updates to Illinois Groundwater Quality Standards................................57 Table 7. Standard operating procedures for Bureau of Water monitoring programs
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