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OregonWater Quality
Report Card
Michael Mulvey December 12, 2012
Three Environmental Report Cards: Land Quality Air Quality Water Quality
Outcome Based Management Organizational processes measures Environmental outcomes measures
Intended Audiences: DEQ Management Oregon Legislators Natural Resource Agencies Environmental groups Oregonians
Brief Easy Clear Accurate Timely Visually appealing
Spatial Scales: Land UseBasinSub BasinSite (Segment?)
Rely on Indices not raw data: Environmental indices have strengths and limitations
The Massachusetts WQRC
Beneficial Use Indicator Data Source Water bodyAquatic Life Use Water Quality OWQI, Ambient Monitoring Network Larger RiversContact Recreation Use Human Health Bacteria (Amb Mon), Harmful Algal
Blooms (OHA)Larger Rivers, popular lakes
Drinking water Human Health Groundwater studies GroundwaterAquatic Life Use Biological Integrity Macroinvertebrate community scores
from Oregon Plan and other monitoring
Mostly wadeable streams but some larger rivers
Fish Consumption(Fish Tissue)
Human Health OHA fish consumption advisories Lakes and Rivers
DEQ Toxics Monitoring data Rivers
Fish Consumption(water column)
Human Health DEQ Toxics Monitoring Data Rivers
Aquatic Life Use Toxics water and sediment
DEQ Toxics Monitoring Data Rivers
Report Card Elements
Indicator Beneficial Use Monitoring Status In RC prototype?
Water Chemistry Aquatic Life On going Yes
Contact Recreation Swimmable Waters-Human Health
On going Yes
Groundwater Quality
Drinking Water-Human Health
Mostly discontinued Yes
Biological Integrity Aquatic Life Discontinued Yes
Fish Toxics Fish Edibility-Human Health
On going Partially
Water column toxics Fish Edibility-Human Health
On going Not yet
Water column toxics Aquatic Life On going Not yet
Not part of the RC prototype but should be: Bays, estuaries, beaches, lakes, wet lands, temperature.
DescriptionWater
ChemistryContact
RecreationGroundwater Biology Fish Edibility
Willamette Basin 86 0.83
Lower Willamette Sub Basin 65 0.59
Clackamas Sub Basin 93 0.96
Tualatin Sub Basin55 1
Molalla-Pudding Sub Basin 71 0.85
Yamhill Sub Basin81
1
Mid Willamette Sub Basin88 1
North Santiam Sub Basin 94 0.89
South Santiam Sub Basin1
McKenzie Sub Basin93 1
Coast Fork Willamette SubBasin 1
Middle Fork Willamette Sub Basin 1.1
Upper Willamette Sub Basin87
1
DescriptionWater
ChemistryContact
RecreationGroundwater Biology Fish Edibility
Lower Willamette Sub Basin 65 0.59
Willamette R. @ Hawthorne Br. Fair Good Willamette R. @ SP&S RR Br. (Portland) Fair Good Swan Island Channel (Willamette R.) Poor Good Columbia Slough @ Landfill Rd. Very Poor Good Johnson Ck. @ SE 17th Ave. (Portland) Very Poor Poor
Blue Lake
Fairview Lake
Laurelhurst Pond
Lake Oswego
Mid-Multnomah 1995 3
Milwaukie 1989 3
Sauvie Island 1985 2
X Columbia Slough: Willamette Zone, Multnomah County, the full length of the slough from the mouth of Fairview Lake
PCBs
X Portland Harbor: Extending from the Freemont Bridge northward to Sauvie Island
PCBs
X Willamette River Main stem, including the Coast Fork to Cottage Grove Reservoir.: The mainstem of the Willamette
Mercury and PCBs
X Willamette River Main stem, including the Coast Fork to Cottage Grove Reservoir.: The mainstem of the Willamette
Mercury and PCBs
X Lower Columbia River: Columbia River Zone PCBs
DescriptionWater
ChemistryWater Chem Issues
Contact Recreation
Contact Recreati
on Issues
Lower Willamette Sub Basin 65
Willamette R. @ Hawthorne Br. Fair Nut, BOD Good Willamette R. @ SP&S RR Br. (Portland) Fair Nut, T, BOD Good Swan Island Channel (Willamette R.) Poor Nut, DO, T, BOD Good Columbia Slough @ Landfill Rd. Very Poor Nut, DO, BOD, TS Good Johnson Ck. @ SE 17th Ave. (Portland) Very Poor Bact, Nut, BOD, TS Poor Bacteria Blue Lake Algae Fairview Lake Algae Laurelhurst Pond Algae Lake Oswego Algae
DescriptionWater
ChemistryWater Chem Impairments (OWQI
sub index)Groundwater
GW
Issu
es Contact Recreation
Contact Recreati
on Issues
Biology (O/E bug scores)
Fish Edibility (
OHA advisories)
Urban 0.200.80
Clackamas R. @ High Rocks Excellent BOD Good
Willamette R. @ Salem Excellent Good
Willamette R. @ Hawthorne Br. Fair Nut, BOD Good
Willamette R. @ SP&S RR Br. (Portland) Fair Nut, T, BOD Good
Swan Island Channel (Willamette R.) Poor Nut, DO, T, BOD Good
Fanno Ck. @ Bonita Rd. (Tigard) Very Poor Bact, Nut, DO, BOD, TS Poor Bacteria
Beaverton Ck. @ 216th St. (Orenco) Very Poor Bact, Nut, DO, BOD, TS Good
Columbia Slough @ Landfill Rd. Very Poor Nut, DO, BOD, TS Good
Tualatin R. @ Boones Ferry Rd. Very Poor Nut, DO, T, BOD, TS Good
Johnson Ck. @ SE 17th Ave. (Portland) Very Poor Bact, Nut, BOD, TS Poor Bacteria
Mid-Multnomah 1995 3 Nitrates, VOCs
Milwaukie 1989 3 VOCs
SantaClara/River Road 1980 4 Nitrates, Bacteria
Blue Lake Algae
Fairview Lake Algae
Laurelhurst Pond Algae
Lake Oswego Algae
Tualatin Reservoir Algae
X Columbia Slough: Willamette Zone, Multnomah County, the full length of the slough from the mouth of Fairview Lake on the east to its discharge into the Willamette River on the west PCBs
X Portland Harbor: Extending from the Freemont Bridge northward to Sauvie Island PCBs
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