The Beneficial Use Monitoring Program (BUMP) was created in 1998 through legislatively appropriated funds under the direction of the OWRB, the agency responsible for the promulgation of the State’s Water Quality Standards (WQS) and WQS Implementation Rules. The BUMP provides information needed for the WQS and facilitates the prioritization of pollution control activities.The specific objectives of the BUMP are to detect and quantify water quality trends, document and quantify impairments of assigned beneficial uses, and identify pollution problems before they become a pollution crisis.
The components of the Beneficial Use Monitoring Program include fixed station lakes monitoring, fixed station rivers and streams monitoring, rotating station rivers and streams monitoring, fixed station load monitoring, fixed station groundwater monitoring (proposed but not currently funded), and intensive investigation sampling (proposed but not currently funded).
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