Middle Santa Ana River Quality Assurance Project Plan

223 Pages·2013·2.98 MB·English

Middle Santa Ana River
Quality Assurance Project Plan

PREPARED BY
CDM Smith

ON BEHALF OF
Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority
San Bernardino County Stormwater Program
Riverside County Flood Control District
Cities of Chino, Chino Hills, Claremont, Corona, Fontana, Montclair, Norco, Ontario,
Pomona, Rancho Cucamonga, Rialto, Riverside, and Upland
Milk Producers Council, and Chino Watermaster Agricultural Pool

Version 4.0
July 2013

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Summary of Revision History

July 2013
 Revised cover page
 Revised project management names on approval signature page
 Revised distribution list
 Revised Section 4.1 and Table 4-1: revised personnel list
 Section 4.4: updated Organization Chart
 Section 5.3: revised urban community funding sources
 Section 5.5: revised QAPP purpose
 Section 6.1: revised overview sections for USEP Monitoring Program Tier 2 source evaluation
 Section 6.2: revised constituents to be monitored for Tier 2 secondary screening tools
 Table 7-1: revised field measurements to include Tier 2 secondary screening tools
 Table 9-1: removed mentions of UC Davis Lab
 Section 10: revised to add USEP Tier 2 monitoring schedule
 Section 11.4: revised to add USEP Tier 2 secondary screening procedures
 Section 12.1, 12.2, and 12.3 revised
 Section 13: revised Table 13-1, Table 13-2
 Section 15: revised Table 15-1
 Section 17: revised Table 17-1
 Section 24: revised purpose of USEP Tier 2 source evaluations
 Attachment 1: revised field data sheet for Tier 2 sampling
 Appendix C: removed University California Davis lab SOPs; added Clinical Labs SOPs
 Appendix D: added new appendix Babcock Labs SOPs
 Appendix E: revised to include TMDL Taskforce Contact List; updated contact list

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May 2012
 Revised cover page
 Revised project management names on approval signature page
 Revised distribution list
 Revised Section 4.1 and Table 4-1: revised personnel list
 Section 4.4: updated Organization Chart
 Section 5.5: revised QAPP purpose
 Section 6.1: revised overview sections for USEP Monitoring Program
 Section 6.2: revised constituents to be monitored
 Table 7-1: revised precision column – removed “No SWAMP requirement” reference
 Table 7-2: addeded Bacteroides to bacterial analyses group
 Table 9-1 revised in Reports section
 Section 10 revised
 Section 12.1 and 12.3 revised
 Section 13: revised Table 13-2
 Section 14: revised Table 14-2, Table 14-3, Table 14-5
 Section 15: revised Table 15-1
 Appendix D: Updated TMDL Taskforce Contact List

May 2011
 Revised cover page
 Added Summary of Revision History page
 Revised project management names on approval signature page
 Revised distribution list
 Global revisions: Revised text throughout QAPP to make the document more general and not
specific to previous Grant-related project, which included monitoring and evaluation of
BMP effectiveness.
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 Revised Section 4.1 to describe potential future changing roles of involved parties. Changes
will be described in future report submittals to the Regional Board.
 Table 4-1: revised personnel list
 Section 4.2: added text to describe QAQC to be included in wet and dry season report
monitoring reports.
 Section 4.4: updated Organization Chart
 Section 5.1: removed the BMP Efffectiveness monitoring project that was specific to the past
Grant project.
 Section 5.5: revised QAPP purpose
 Section 6.1:
o added footnote regarding removal of Icehouse Canyon watershed-wide compliance
monitoring site.
o revised overview sections for USEP and AgSEP Monitoring programs
 Section 6.4: revised to include general language that schedules will be updated per
Monitoring Plan updates
 Table 9-1 revised in Reports section
 Section 10: revised sample frequency and schedule
 Section 12: removed specific references to past project contractors and replaced with general
reference - “Monitoring Contractor”
 Table 13-1: revised units for conductivity to be µS/cm instead of mS/cm
 Revised Table 15-1: replaced past specific named contractor to general reference to
“Monitoring Contractors”
 Section 21: Revised reports to management section
 Appendix D: Updated TMDL Taskforce Contact List

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Group A: Project Management
Approval Signatures
Title Name Signature Date*
SAWPA Project Director Mark Norton
SAWPA Project Coordinator Rick Whetsel
Strategic Planner, Risk Sciences Tim Moore
CDM Smith Project Manager Richard Meyerhoff
CDM Smith QA Officer Barbara Wells
Agricultural/Dairy Representative Pat Boldt
Riverside County Flood Control &
Rebekah Guill
Watershed Conservation District
(or her designee)
(RCFC&WCD) Monitoring Manager
RCFC&WCD Steve Clark

Monitoring QA Officer (or his designee)
San Bernardino County Flood Control Marc Rodabaugh (or

District (SBCFCD) Monitoring Manager his designee)
Marc Rodabaugh
SBCFCD Monitoring QA Officer
(or his designee)
City of Pomona Julie Carver

Monitoring Manager (or her designee)
City of Pomona Julie Carver

Monitoring QA Officer (or her designee)
City of Claremont Loretta Mustafa

Monitoring Manager (or her designee)
City of Claremont Loretta Mustafa

Monitoring QA Officer (or her designee)
Orange County Public Health Water
Dr. Richard Alexander
Quality Laboratory (OCPHL) Director
OCPHL QA Officer Joseph Guzman
OCWD Laboratory Director Donald Phipps
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OCWD Laboratory QA Officer Menu Leddy
Clinical Lab Director Bob Glaubig
Clinical Lab QA Officer Alex Popa
ESB Laboratory Director Stacey Fry
ESB QA Officer Paul Monroy
Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Board
William Rice
(RWQCB) Representative
RWQCB QA Officer Renee Spears

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2. Table of Contents

Group A Elements: Project Management ............................................................................................ 5
1. Title and Approval Sheets ............................................................................................................... 5
2. Table of Contents .............................................................................................................................. 7
3. Distribution List ................................................................................................................................ 9
4. Project/Task Organization ........................................................................................................... 11
5. Problem Definition/Background ................................................................................................. 17
6. Project/Task Description .............................................................................................................. 22
7. Quality Objectives and Criteria for Measurement Data ........................................................... 32
8. Special Training Needs/Certification ......................................................................................... 36
9. Documents And Records .............................................................................................................. 37

Group B: Data Generation and Acquisition ..................................................................................... 39
10. Sampling Process Design .............................................................................................................. 39
11. Sampling Methods ......................................................................................................................... 42
12. Sample Handling and Custody .................................................................................................... 57
13. Analytical Methods ........................................................................................................................ 61
14. Quality Control ............................................................................................................................... 65
15. Instrument/Equipment Testing, Inspection, and Maintenance .............................................. 68
16. Instrument/Equipment Calibration and Frequency ................................................................. 70
17. Inspection/Acceptance of supplies and Consumables ............................................................. 71
18. Non-Direct Measurements (Existing Data) ................................................................................ 72
19. Data Management .......................................................................................................................... 73

Group C: Assessment and Oversight ................................................................................................. 75
20. Assessments & Response Actions ................................................................................................ 75
21. Reports to Management ................................................................................................................ 76

Group D: Data Validation and Usability ........................................................................................... 77
22. Data Review, Verification, and Validation Requirements ....................................................... 77
23. Verification and Validation Methods .......................................................................................... 78
24. Reconciliation with User Requirements ...................................................................................... 79

TABLES
4-1. Personnel Responsibilities ............................................................................................................ 13
6-1. Watershed-wide Monitoring Program Sample Locations ........................................................ 24
6-2. USEP Monitoring Program Tier 1 Sample Locations ................................................................ 26
7-1. Data Quality Objectives for Field Measurements ...................................................................... 33
7-2. Data Quality Objectives for Laboratory Measurements ........................................................... 34
9-1. Document and Record Retention, Archival, and Disposition Information ........................... 38
10-1. Watershed-wide Monitoring Program Sampling Schedule ..................................................... 40
11-1. Sampling Locations and Sampling Methods .............................................................................. 44
13-1. Field Methods ................................................................................................................................. 61
13-2. Laboratory Analytical Methods ................................................................................................... 63
14-1. Sampling (Field) QC (Field Parameters) ..................................................................................... 65
14-2. Sampling (Field) QC (TSS) ............................................................................................................ 65
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14-3. Sampling (Field) QC (Fecal Coliform, E. coli, Bacteroides) ........................................................ 66
14-4. Analytical QC (TSS) ....................................................................................................................... 66
14-5. Analytical QC (Fecal Coliform, E. coli, Bacteroides) .................................................................... 67
15-1. Testing, Inspection, Maintenance of Sampling Equipment and Analytical Instruments .... 69
17-1. Inspection/Acceptance Testing Requirements for Consumables and Supplies ................... 71

FIGURES
5-1 Bacterial Indicator Impairments in the MSAR .............................................................................. 19
6-1 Watershed-wide Monitoring Program ........................................................................................... 23
6-2 USEP Monitoring Program .............................................................................................................. 28

ATTACHMENTS
1. Example MSAR Bacterial Indicator TMDL Field Data Sheet Form
2. Example Chain of Custody Forms
3. Flow Measurement Form

APPENDICES
A. Orange County Public Health Water Quality Lab Standard Operating Procedures
B. Orange County Water District, Laboratory Standard Operating Procedures
C. Clinical Laboratory of San Bernardino, Inc., Laboratory Standard Operating Procedures
D. Babcock Laboratories Inc., Laboratory Standard Operating Procedures
E. MSAR Watershed TMDL Taskforce Contact List
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3. Distribution List

Title Name (Affiliation) Tel. No. QAPP No.
RWQCB Representative William Rice (Regional Board) 951-782-4130 8839
RWQCB QA Officer Renee Spears (State Board) 916-341-5583 8839
Project Director Mark Norton (SAWPA) 951-354-4220 8839
Project Coordinator Rick Whetsel (SAWPA) 951-354-4220 8839
MSAR TMDL Task Force See Appendix D 8839
Strategic Planner Tim Moore (Risk Sciences) 615-370-1655 8839
Project Manager Richard Meyerhoff(CDM Smith) 909-579-3500 8839
Project QA Officer Barbara Wells (CDM Smith) 909-579-3500 8839
Ag/ Dairy Representative Pat Boldt 951-808-8531 8839
RCFC&WCD Monitoring Manager Rebekah Guill (RCFC&WCD) 951-955-2901 8839
RCFC&WCD Monitoring QA Officer Steve Clark(RCFC&WCD) 951-323-1786 8839
SBCFCD Monitoring Manager Marc Rodabaugh (SBCFCD) 909-387-8119 8839
SBCFCD Monitoring QA Officer Marc Rodabaugh (SBCFCD) 909-387-8119 8839
City of Pomona Monitoring Manager Julie Carver (Pomona) 909-620-3628 8839
City of Pomona Monitoring QA
Julie Carver (Pomona) 909-620-3628 8839
Officer
City of Claremont Monitoring
Loretta Mustafa (Claremont) 909-399-5474 8839
Manager
City of Claremont Monitoring QA
Loretta Mustafa (Claremont) 909-399-5474 8839
Officer
OC PHL Director Dr. Richard Alexander 714-834-8379 8839
OC PHL QA Officer Joseph Guzman 949-219-0423 8839
OCWD Laboratory Director Donald Phipps 714-378-3200 8839
OCWD Laboratory QA Officer Menu Leddy 714-378-3200 8839
ESB Director Paul Monroy 951-653-3351 8839
ESB QA Officer Stacey Fry 951-653-3351 8839
Clinical Labs Director Bob Glaubig 909-825-7693 8839
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Clinical Labs QA Officer Alex Popa 909-825-7693 8839
* This distribution list will be updated accordingly as participant change.
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