Item talk:Q228756

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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/new-jersey-water-science-center/science/new-jersey-ambient-surface-water-quality-monitoring",
 "headline": "New Jersey Ambient Surface-Water-Quality Monitoring Network",
 "datePublished": "August 23, 2018",
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     "name": "Heidi L. Hoppe",
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     "text": "ASWQMN Site Types"
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     "text": "Fixed Sites"
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     "text": "NETWORK OBJECTIVE\nThe ASWQMN provides surface-water-quality information to facilitate the effective planning and management of New Jersey\u2019s water resources and provides water-quality information to the public. The data obtained are used to:"
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     "text": "NETWORK DESCRIPTION\nThe ASWQMN consists of summaries of 126 surface-water-quality monitoring sites including 76 fixed and 50 periodic sites statewide, which are sampled quarterly. The locations of the fixed sites do not change over time and fall into three categories\u2014land-use indicator, watershed integrator, and background sites.  Fifty new sites are randomly selected every 2 years for sampling to ensure a statistically valid statewide assessment."
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     "text": "Periodic Sites"
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     "text": "INTRODUCTION\nThe Federal Clean Water Act and Section 106 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Water Pollution Control Grants mandate that states monitor the quality of their ambient waters. In order to meet these requirements, the cooperative Ambient Surface-Water-Quality Monitoring Network (ASWQMN) was established in 1976 to determine the status of and trends in the quality of water in New Jersey\u2019s freshwater streams and rivers. As part of this network, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) New Jersey Water Science Center and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), in cooperation with the New Jersey Water Supply Authority and the Delaware River Basin Commission, collect water samples quarterly and streambed-sediment samples annually at surface-water-monitoring stations throughout New Jersey."
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     "text": "__________________________________________"
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     "text": "___________________________________________"
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     "text": "The periodic component of the ASWQMN allows for a comprehensive statistical evaluation of statewide water quality by routinely changing the sites that are included as a subset of the ASWQMN. This subset of sites provides data from a set of randomly selected sites to assess water quality statewide (1998-2011) or provides data from a set of selected sites in priority regions, basins, and/or watersheds (2011 - present)."
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     "text": "What is Collected?"
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     "text": "The fixed, long-term sites determine status and trends of  ambient water-quality of  surface waters in the State of NJ. General objectives of the Fixed sites include:"
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     "text": "The USGS New Jersey Water Science Center, in cooperation with the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), New Jersey Water Supply Authority, and the Delaware River Basin Commission, maintain the New Jersey Ambient Surface-Water-Quality Monitoring Network (ASWQMN) \u2014 a collection of monitoring stations on streams throughout New Jersey. Constituent concentration data from the ASWQMN are used to determine statewide water-quality status and trends, define the quality of water in streams near the downstream end of each NJDEP Watershed Management Area (WMA), define background water quality in each of the four physiographic provinces of New Jersey, and define the quality of water in streams that drain targeted land-use areas. The ASWQMN consists of as many as 126 stations located throughout the 20 WMAs in New Jersey."
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