San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) | January 12th, 2022
Summary
With RMP funding allocated in 2017 and 2018, a pilot study was completed using a subset of data from watersheds in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties to build new methods
With RMP funding allocated in 2017 and 2018, a pilot study was completed using a subset of data from watersheds in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties to build new methods for organizing and analyzing the existing stormwater reconnaissance data that will provide further evidence to support decisions about which watersheds may be of interest for prioritized management focus. The pilot study resulted in two new analysis methodologies outlined in two companion reports:
Davis, J.A. and Gilbreath, A.N., 2019. Small Tributaries Pollutants of Concern Reconnaissance Monitoring: Pilot Evaluation of Source Areas Using PCB Congener Data. SFEI Contribution No. 956. San Francisco Estuary Institute, Richmond, California.
McKee, L.J., Gilbreath, A.N., Hunt, J.A., Wu, J., Yee, D., and Davis, J.A., 2019. Small tributaries pollutants of concern reconnaissance monitoring: Loads and yields-based prioritization methodology pilot study. SFEI Contribution No. 817. San Francisco Estuary Institute, Richmond, California.
In this final report, we describe a few enhancements to the storm-event loads and yields method and then apply both methods to a much larger data set and provide the resulting database to support stormwater management and decision making.