WATER QUALITY DATA - QUALITY ASSURANCE / QUALITY CONTROL
Coordinated Monitoring Schedule
Measurement Performance Specification Tables (LCRA)
Measurement Performance Specification Tables support the collection of
surface water quality data needed for conducting water quality assessments
in accordance with TCEQ's Guidance for Assessing Texas Surface and
Finished Drinking Water Quality Data.
MPS Tables for FY 2008-09 (PDF) 233K
MPS Tables for FY 2006-07 (PDF) 131K
MPS Tables for FY 2004-05 (PDF) 2.5M
Regional Quality Assurance Project Plan
Quality assurance policy and procedures, management structure and requirements
to document reliable and valid data.
FY 2008-09 Regional QAPP (PDF) 418K
Coordinated Monitoring Station Location Map FY08 (PDF) 4.2M
Amendment 1 (PDF) 314K
Amendment 2 (PDF) 264K
Amendment 3 (PDF) 264K
Amendment 4 (PDF) 247K
Amendment 5 (PDF) 293K
Amendment 6 (PDF) 254K
Amendment 7 (PDF) 313K
Amendment 8 (PDF) 249K
FY 2006-07 Regional QAPP (PDF) 341K
Coordinated Monitoring Station Location Map FY06 (PDF) 3.8M
Amendment #1 - Water Quality and Biological Characterization
Highland Bayou and Marchand Bayou Watersheds near Houston, Texas
Appendix G (PDF) 210K
Appendix G.1 (PDF) 5K
Appendix G.2 (PDF) 22K
Appendix G.3 (SEE) 854 K (change extension to EXE, doubleclick to extract files)
Appendix G.4 (PDF) 60K
Appendix G.5 (PDF) 21K
Cotton Bayou and West Fork DoubleBayouWatersheds, near Houston, Texas
Appendix H (PDF) 527K
Appendix H.1 (PDF) 5K
Appendix H.2 (PDF) 27K
Appendix H.3 (SEE) 854K (change extension to EXE, doubleclick to extract files)
Appendix H.4 (PDF) 60K
Appendix H.5 (PDF) 21K
Amendment #2 - Coordinated Monitoring Station Location Map FY07 (PDF) 3.8M
Amendment #3 - PBS Sampling Activities on Cedar Bayou (PDF) 53K
Amendment #4 - Changes Made by the Harris County Lab (HCEPHD) (PDF) 36K
Surface Water Monitoring Data (ZIP) 7M
Data set contains TCEQ Quality Assured ZIP data files for the four assessment basins
within the H-GAC Region. Data are in MS Access 2000 format and have been zipped
(using WinZip). Data sets contain TCEQ Quality Assured ZIP data files for the four
assessment basins within the H-GAC Region. Data are in MS Access 2000 format
and have been zipped (using WinZip).
Water Quality Forms
The following documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader or Microsoft Word 2002.
Please send the completed forms by e-mail or fax to:
Houston-Galveston Area Council
Attn. Bruce Ridpath
Clean Rivers Program Data Manager
Phone: (832) 681-2537
Fax: (713) 993-4503
bruce.ridpath@h-gac.com
a) Data Review Checklist
Use this checklist to assist in your review of data processing methods prior
to submitting your data to H-GAC.
Data Review Checklist (PDF) 114K
Data Review Checklist (DOC) 44K
b) Microbiological QA Comment Sheet
Use this sheet to provide additional comments relating to your data submittal
and Microbiological Quality Assurance.
Microbiological QA Comment Sheet (PDF) 5K
Microbiological QA Comment Sheet (DOC) 19K
c) Station Status
Use this form to help H-GAC maintain Status information for your stations.
Station Status (PDF) 138 K
Station Status (DOC) 21KInteractive Maps
Clean Rivers Program - Find Your Watershed
A popular educational tool for communicating water flow and waterway connectivity.
Please disable the pop-up blocker on your computer to view the interactive maps.
Enter your ZIP Code and find out which watershed you live in.
You can also view Summary and Water Quality Information for your Watershed.
Clean Rivers Program - Regional Monitoring Stations
View ambient water quality monitoring stations in the Houston-Galveston Region
and download surface water quality data from local monitoring partners.
Clean Rivers Program - Ambient Water Quality Data
Perform simple queries on online surface water quality monitoring databases
from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality or Local Monitoring Agencies.
Queries are based on Station ID-Description, Segment # and STORET Parameter Code.
Data Not Under A Quality Assurance Project Plan
H-GAC's Community & Environmental Planning Department also manages water
quality data Not Under a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP).
This data includes metals and additional conventional parameters by each agency
that are not covered by the Regional QAPP. In addition, there are Quality Assurance
data available for all data submitted to H-GAC. For more information please contact:
Todd.Running@h-gac.com
Disclaimer
The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) assumes no legal liability
for the accuracy or completeness of the data provided in the clearinghouse.
All local agencies are under a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) for
the Texas Clean Rivers Program, and the data has been through an extensive
quality control process. For information regarding the QAPP, please refer
to the information provided in the Data Quality Objectives Section of
the clearinghouse or, for further information, contact:
Todd.Running@h-gac.com
For those with questions concerning the data, please call the agency responsible
for sampling.