2021 RMP Water Cruise Plan
Melissa Foley, Rebecca Sutton, Don Yee, Paul Salop | October 14th, 2021
This report details plans associated with the annual Regional Monitoring Program for Water
Quality in the San Francisco Estuary (RMP) water cruise. The RMP water sampling program
was redesigned in 2002 to adopt a randomized sampling design at thirty-one sites in place of
the twenty-six base program stations sampled previously. In 2007, the number of sites was
decreased to twenty-two stations, and it remains as such for 2021. The analytes for 2021 have
been modified based on the Status and Trends (S&T) Review process that started in 2020. The
analytes that are being removed from the program include selenium and methylmercury
(dissolved and particulate), while bisphenols and organophosphate esters (OPEs) have been
added to S&T monitoring.
Keywords
agricultural drainage, monitoring, pesticides, pollutants, Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, stormwater, water quality