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SWAMP adopts five‑year plan to prioritize filling bioaccumulation data gaps, to begin with lakes in 2025–26

SWAMP Safety Work Group (SWAMP program, State Water Board partners) · April 24, 2024
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Summary

SWAMP staff reported management decisions to focus the next five years on filling identified data gaps (with an equity lens), prioritize lakes monitoring in 2025–26, and use a tiered funding approach and annual feedback schedule to add sites or analytes as budgets permit.

SWAMP staff reported that management has adopted a five‑year monitoring strategy that prioritizes filling identified data and information gaps statewide rather than continuing the program’s statistically driven trend panels as the primary activity.

Anna, who led the long‑term priorities process, told the Safety Work Group the plan is the product of presentations and written feedback from the nine regional water boards, the Division of Water Quality, OEHHA, Biomonitoring California and five California Native American governments. She said the intent is to produce a…

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