2018 Quality Assurance Program Plan for the Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay

The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) was created to provide long-term monitoring information on ecosystem health in the Bay. The impetus for the program development was a resolution by the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Board to require dischargers in the Bay Area regulated under the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program to participate in regional monitoring. Contribution to the Program constitutes compliance with the requirement to participate. Elimination of certain permit requirements for individual permits offset the requirement for continued participation. The RMP began as a pilot study in 1989 and has been collecting water, sediment, and biological tissue data since 1993.