Environmental Data Environmental Data, Data Quality Management, Standard Operating Procedures and Quality Assurance Project Plans DEM is the repository of significant amounts of environmental data. This data provides information on the health of the water we use to drink, swim in and provides a home for the many aquatic species that call Rhode Island home. DEM also collects air quality data that monitors the air we breathe. DEM is also responsible for using scientific means to collect the data that is used in environmental decision-making. This web site is being developed to bring together information that is being collected by the department into one location. Environmental Data Air Pesticides Waste Water Data Quality Management DEM Quality Management Plan EPA Guidance Standard Operating Procedures Bureau of Environmental Protection OWM- Superfund Projects OWM- Site Remediation Projects Office of Water Resources Quality Manager Emergency Response UST Program Quality Assurance Project Plans Pesticides OCTA Air Waste Water Air Data Data Source DEM Pesticides Data Data Source Turf Pesticides & Nitrogen Monitoring Report DEM Waste Data Data Source Solid Waste Report DEM Sites with Planned Response Actions by 9/30/05 Sites with Completed Response Actions by 9/30/04 DEM Water Data Data Source Surface Water Data USGS Groundwater Data USGS Water Quality Data USGS Beach Monitoring & Closures RIDOH Drinking Water EPA Drinking Water RIDOH List of Impaired Waters (303(d) DEM Water Quality Assessment Integrated Reports DEM DEM Data Quality Management Data Source DEM Quality Management Plan DEM EPA Guidance DEM Standard Operating Procedures Bureau of Environmental Protection Summary Guidance for Reviewing Environmental Monitoring Data Policy for Considering Environmental Justice in the Review of Investigation and Remediation of Contaminated Properties Office of Waste Management - Superfund Program WM-SF-1- Standard Operating Procedure for Civil Surveying at the Rose Hill Landfill WM-SF-2- Standard Operating Procedure for Surface Water, Leachate and Sediment Sampling at the Rose Hill Landfill WM-SF-3- Standard Operating Procedure for Underground Utility Location at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 4 WM-SF-4- Standard Operating Procedure for Soil Gas Survey and Evaluation at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 1 WM-SF-5- Standard Operating Procedure for Visual-Manual Identification of Soil at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 5, January 1997 WM-SF-6- Standard Operating Procedure for Test pitting and Soil Sampling at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 3, January 1997 WM-SF-7- Standard Operating Procedure for Well Gauging Purging and Sampling at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 5 WM-SF-8- Standard Operating Procedure for Disposal of Bailed Product at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 4 WM-SF-9- Standard Operating Procedure for Well Rehabilitation at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 1, January 1997 WM-SF-10- Standard Operating Procedure for Low Flow Purging and Sampling Procedures for the Collection of Water Samples from Monitoring Wells WM-SF-11- Standard Operating Techniques - Drilling at Rose Hill Landfill WM-SF-12- Standard Operating Techniques - Soil Gas Survey and Evaluation at Rose Hill Landfill WM-SF-13- Standard Operating Techniques - Sampling of Surface Water and Water-Formed Deposits - Rose Hill Landfill WM-SF-14- Standard Operating Procedure - Surface Water Sampling West Kingston Town Dump/URI WM-SF-15- Standard Operating Procedure for Soil and Sediment Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI WM-SF-16- Standard Operating Procedure for Equipment Decontamination- W. Kingston Dump/URI WM-SF-17- Standard Operating Procedure for Soil and Sediment Sampling- W. Kingston Dump/URI WM-SF-18- Standard Operating Procedure for Air Monitoring- W. Kingston Dump/URI WM-SF-19- Standard Operating Procedure for Vapor Diffusion Sampling in Sediments (Volatile Organic Compounds)- W. Kingston Dump/URI WM-SF-20- Standard Operating Procedure for Pore Water Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI WM-SF-21- Standard Operating Procedure for Terrain Conductivity (Em-31) Method Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI WM-SF-22- Standard Operating Procedure for Test Pit Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI WM-SF-23- Standard Operating Procedure for Groundwater Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI WM-SF-24- Standard Operating Procedure for Small Diameter Well Point Installation and Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI WM-SF-25- Standard Operating Procedure for Seismic Refraction Method Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI WM-SF-26- Standard Operating Procedure for Monitoring Well Installation- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI WM-SF-27- Standard Operating Procedure for Hydraulic Conductivity Testing- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI WM-SF-28- Standard Operating Procedure for Tap Water/Residential Well Groundwater Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI WM-SF-29- Standard Operating Procedure for Preparation & Analysis of Dioxin and Furans Samples by USEPA Method 8290- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI Office of Waste Management - LUST Program Standard Operating Procedure for Field Sampling Office of Waste Management - Site Remediation WM-19- Chain of Custody Procedures WM-4- Chip, Wipe, and Sweep Sampling WM-16- Controlled Pumping Test WM-2- Drum Sampling WM-12- Groundwater Well Sampling WM-14- Manual Water Level Measurement WM-15- Monitor Well Development WM-13- Monitoring Well Installation WM-18- Photoionization Detector (PID) Hnu3 WM-21- Removal Program Representative Sampling Guidance-Volume 1 Soil 6 WM-22- Residential Well Sampling (for Chemical Analysis)- Field Sampling SOP WM-1- Sampling Equipment Decontaimnation WM-10- Sediment Sampling WM-20- Site and Safety Considerations WM-17- Slug Test WM-7- Soil Gas Sampling WM-6- Soil Sampling WM-8- Soil Sampling and Surface Geophysics WM-9- Surface Water Sampling WM-3- Tank Sampling WM-5- Waste Pile Sampling Office of Water Resources WR-W-01: Bacteria Field Sampling SOP WR-W-02: Equipment Maintenance/Calibration - Current Meters - SOP WR-W-03: Fecal Coliform Sample Collection SOP WR-W-04: Field Data Sheet WR-W-05: Measuring Stream Discharge- Field Sampling SOP WR-W-06: Order of Activities - Sampling SOP-WR-W-7: SOP for Secchi Disk Measurements WR-W-08: Rapid Bioassessment Protocol For Use In Streams and Wadeable Rivers: Benthic Macroinvertebrates WR-W-09: Measuring Culvert Stage & Flow-Field Sampling SOP WR-W-10: Reading the Staff Gauge - Field Sampling SOP WR-W-11: Hand-Dip Sampling for the Collection of Surface Water for the Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds WR-W-12: Total Phosphorous Sample Collection SOP WR-W-13: Installation and Operation of the Rainew Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge Field Sampling SOP WR-W-14: Temperature, Specific Conductance, Dissolved Oxygen, Salinity Field Sampling SOP WR-W-15: Chain of Custody Form - Watershed Watch WR-W-16: Deep Ponds: Weekly and Biweekly Water Monitoring SOP WR-W-17: Shallow Ponds: Weekly and Biweekly Monitoring SOP WR-W-18: Shallow Ponds: Tri-season Water Monitoring and Collection SOP WR-W-19: Deep Ponds: Tri-season Water Monitoring and Collection SOP WR-W-20: Chlorophyll and Nutrients Sample Collection SOP WR-W-21: Shellfish Growing Area Monitoring Program SOP WR-W-22: Sampling Non-preserved Bottles WR-W-23: Sampling Preserved Bottles WR-W-24: Sampling Sediment TOC WR-W-25: Field Procedures WR-W-26: TMDL Photo SOP WRR-W-27: User Fee Priority Pollutant Monitoring WR-W-30: SOP for Water Column Profile � Lakes, Ponds, and Reservoirs WR-W-31: SOP for Macrophyte Cover � Lakes, Ponds, and Reservoirs WR-W-32: SOP for Bottle - Direct Water Samples- Lakes, Ponds, Reservoirs WR-W-34: SOP for the Measurement of Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature, Specific Conductance, pH and Nitrate Using a Handheld YSI Professional Plus Instrument WR-W-35: SOP for Stream Canopy Measurements by Densiometer WR-W-36: SOP for Measurement of Benthic Algae Cover by Viewing Bucket WR-W-37: SOP for Collection of Benthic Algae from Natural and Artificial Substrates WR-W-45: SOP for Measurement of Substrate Size Distribution, Benthic Algae and Plant Cover by Modified Pebble Count WR-W-46: SOP for Collection of Water Samples from Lakes, Ponds, and Reservoirs using a Van Dorn Sampler WR-GNUWW-1: Sediment Sampling Plan for Dredging Projects Quality Manager OD-QM-1: Procedure for Developing and Approving SOPs OD-QM-2: DEM Standard Operating Procedure for Developing QAPPs and SAPs OD-QM-3: Draft Standard Operating Procedure for Developing and Approving Policies OD-QM-4: Digital Photograph Record Collection and Storage SOP OD-QM-5: Electronic Document PDF Submission Standard Operating Procedure OD-QM-6: DEM Quality System Management Assessment SOP Emergency Response Quality Assurance Project Plans Pesticides QAPP Description Contact Pesticide Sampling Elizabeth Lopes-Duguay Pesticide Formulation And Residue & Dilution Sample Analysis Elizabeth Lopes-Duguay Pesticides Enforcement Compliance Monitoring Program and Water Protection Monitoring Program Eugene Pepper Technical & Customer Assistance QAPP Description Contact QAPP for Underground Storage Tanks Ron Gagnon MS4 Site Construction Runoff Control Environmental Results Program QAPP Ron Gagnon Auto Salvage Environmental Results Program QAPP Tom Armstrong Air Resources QAPP Description Contact Criteria Pollutants Barbara Morin Fine Particulate Matter (PM 2.5) Barbara Morin Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Barbara Morin Air Toxics Barbara Morin Waste Management QAPP Description Contact Office of Waste Management Quality Assurance Program Plan CERCLA Program/DOD Program State Site Investigation & Voluntary Clean-up Program Superfund Pre-Remedial Program (Brownfields) Solid Waste & Landfill Closure Program Paul Kulpa Kelly Owens Cynthia Gianfrancesco Robert Schmidt Hazardous Waste Management Program Generic QAPP Laurie Grandchamp (OWM)/T. Tyrell (OCI) Rose Hill Landfill QAPP Matthew Destefano West Kingston Town Dump / URI Disposal Area QAPP Matthew Destefano Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program Generic Sofia Kaczor Water Resources QAPP Description Contact Approval Date TMDL-Providence/Seekonk River, 1995 - 1996 Jane Sawyers 6/95 TMDL-Runnins River Dry Weather Coliphage, 1999 Jane Sawyerst 1999 TMDL-Kickemuit Reservoir Nutrients and Pathogens, 2000 Jane Sawyers 2000 Woonasquatucket River metals and fecal coliform, 2001 Jane Sawyers 9/00 Saugatucket River Pathogens, 2000 Jane Sawyers 4/01 TMDL-Barrington/Palmer/Runnins Wet Weather Pathogens, 1998 Jane Sawyers 4/01 TMDL-Barrington and Runnins River Dry Weather Pathogens, 1998 - 1999 Jane Sawyers 4/01 303(d) Supplemental Monitoring, 1998-1999 Jane Sawyers 4/01 Narrow River Pathogens, 1999 - 2000 Jane Sawyers 4/01 Hunt River Pathogens, 1999 Jane Sawyers 4/01 Greenwich Bay Wet Weather Pathogens, 2000 - 2001 Jane Sawyers 5/01 Ninigret / Green Hill Ponds 1999-2000 Jane Sawyers 6/01 Greenwich Bay Nutrients 2000 - 2001 Jane Sawyers 6/01 Dry and Wet Weather Bacteriological Sampling - Green Hill Pond, Ninigret Pond, Factory Brook, and Teal Brook Jane Sawyers 6/01 Crooked Brook Jane Sawyers 6/01 Optical Brightening Study- Green Hill Pond, Ninigret Pond, Factory Brook, Teal Brook Jane Sawyers 6/01 Dry and Wet Weather Metals (Copper, Lead and Zinc) Water Quality Sampling of Indian Run Brook and Source, 2001 Jane Sawyers 6/01 Sands Pond Nutrients, 2001 Jane Sawyers 7/01 Mashapaug Pond Nutrients, 2001 - 2002 Jane Sawyers 7/01 TMDL-Barrington/Palmer/Warren Pathogens, 1996 including Belcher Stream - East, Wet Weather Jane Sawyers 9/01 Stafford Pond Follow-up Monitoring Ken Ayars, Jane Sawyers 10/01 Point Judith Pond Jane Sawyers 2001 RIDEM�s 2000 303(d) List of Impaired Waters Supplemental Monitoring Program (Groups 3 and 4) Jane Sawyers 2/02 Field Sampling of Alternative and Innovative Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems George Loomis- URI 9/03 Ambient River Monitoring Program-DEM 2011 Addendum 2012 Addendum 2013 Addendum 2014 Addendum Jane Sawyers, DEM Katie DeGoosh, DEM Katie DeGoosh, DEM Jane Sawyers, DEM 12/10 12/11 1/13 11/14 Ambient Water Quality Monitoring of RI Rivers-URI Dr. Ray Wright, URI Jane Sawyers 8/04 Bacteria, Metals and Biodiversity Monitoring of the Blackstone River Skip Viator 2/05 Blackstone River Various, 2001 - 2003 Louis Berger Inc./ Jane Sawyers 2/05 Watershed Watch Analytical Lab Procedures Linda Green URI/ Jane Sawyers 6/05 Ambient Water Quality Monitoring of RI Lakes- URI Linda Green URI/ Jane Sawyers 9/05 Narragansett Bay Fixed-Site Monitoring Network (NBFSMN) Heather Stoffel/ Sue Kiernan 6/20 Surface Water Sampling in Newport's Nine Water Supply Reservoirs FSOP1 (Field Standard Operating Procedures) FSOP1a FSOP2 FSOP3 FSOP4 FSOP5 LSOP1 (Laboratory Standard Operating Procedures) LSOP2 LSOP3 LSOP4 LSOP5 LSOP6 LSOP6a LSOP7 LSOP11 LSOP12 Sonde Deployment Brian Zalewsky 5/15 Wet Weather Bacteriological Sampling - Mt. Hope Bay/Kickimuit Brian Zalewsky 4/06 Protection of Vulnerable Wetlands - Queen's River Watershed Carol Murphy 5/06 Buckeye Brook and Sources, Pathogens Skip Viator 9/06 Little Narragansett Bay and Pawcatuck River Bacteria Sampling Plan Heidi Travers 5/07 Ten Mile River Water Quality Sampling Plan Brian Zalewsky 6/07 Ten Mile River Project Overview Brian Zalewsky 6/07 Evaluating Outcomes - Permitting Carol Murphy 10/07 Nonpoint Source Grant Program QAPP Ernie Panciera 11/07 Taxonomic Identification of Benthic Macroinvertebrates- Biomonitoring for Wadeable Streams Jane Sawyers 3/08 RI Wadeable Streams Biomonitoring and Habitat Assessment Katie DeGoosh 2/15 Protecting Vernal Pools Carol Murphy 3/08 Buckeye Brook Biodiversity Skip Viator 7/08 Freshwater Wetland Monitoring Year 3 Carol Murphy 9/08 Biomonitoring of Rhode Island Non-wadeable Streams Katie DeGoosh 10/08 Bissel Cove Jane Sawyers 2008 Generic Lake Monitoring QAPP Jane Sawyers 8/11 Freshwater Numeric Nutrient Criteria Development Data Analysis Jane Sawyers 12/11 Surface Water Sampling in Upper and Lower Melville Ponds Jeffrey Flashinski 7/21