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PROJECT INFORMATION Project Code Short Description Project Manager (customer) Section Field Project Manager Start Date End Date Full Description BISC Biscayne Bay Monitoring Cecelia Weaver WQM ckennedy 19-MAR-1979 09-NOV-2010 This cooperative program with Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) consists of monthly surface water quality monitoring in Biscayne Bay and its major tributaries. DERM began routine monitoring of Biscayne Bay surface water quality in March 1979. The original program consisted of 48 fixed stations distributed throughout the Bay and at the mouths of most major tributaries. Over the years, sampling stations were added and the parameter matrix was modified. The most significant changes occurred when the District began funding the Program in 1988 as part of the Biscayne Bay Surface Water Management and Implementation (SWIM) Plan. Degradation of water quality in Biscayne Bay was a primary factor that influenced the State legislature to place Biscayne Bay on the initial SWIM priority list. Stations were added primarily in the tributaries and the parameter matrix was expanded in an effort to: 1) detect spatial, seasonal and interannual trends and possible impacts on the health of the bay ecosystem and 2) identify areas of potential degradation. These data have been instrumental in documenting a variety of impacts to surface water quality in Biscayne Bay and continue to give direction for investigations and remedial actions. The data are regularly used by academic institutions, private sector organizations and public agencies. Monthly surface water quality monitoring at 25 sites in Biscayne Bay is also conducted by Florida International University as part of the South Florida Estuarine Water Quality Monitoring Program described in Section 23. Query returned 1 project record(s).

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