The publication provides guidance for designing water quality monitoring projects and selecting monitoring parameters. Although the focus is on forest management and streams in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, a broader perspective is taken and much of the information is more widely applicable. Part I reviews the regulatory mechanisms for nonpoint source pollution and defines seven types of monitoring. A step-by-step process for developing monitoring projects is presented. Because monitoring is a sample procedure, study design and statistical analysis are explicitly addressed. Part II is a technical review of the parameters, and these are grouped into seven categories: physical and chemical constituents, flow, sediment, channel characteristics, riparian, and aquatic organisms.

"May 1991"--Cover. "EPA/910/9-91-001." "These guidelines were developed for Region 10, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ... under EPA Assistance No. CX-816032-01-0 with the Center for Streamside Studies in Forestry, Fisheries & Wildlife, College of Forest Resources/College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington." As of 02/12/2016, GPO could not validate the distribution status of this title for the FDLP. Includes bibliographical references.

Legal context of water quality monitoring efforts -- Structure of a water quality monitoring project -- Relevance of statistics to water quality monitoring -- Designated uses of water -- Forest harvest -- Road building and maintenance -- Forest fertilization -- Application of herbicides and pesticides -- Grazing -- Developed recreation/rural populations -- Placer mining/sand and gravel extraction -- Hardrock mining -- Wildfire and prescribed burning -- Physical and chemical constituents -- Changes in flow -- Sediment -- Channel characteristics -- Riparian monitoring -- Aquatic organisms.