Beneficial Use Monitoring Program ( BUMP ); the statewide water quality monitoring program in Oklahoma; Oklahoma Water Resources Board

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       Lake Data

     Stream Data

WHY BUMP? In 1997, before BUMP, Oklahoma was making decisions and even laws with little or no real data about the causes and sources of pollution to our lakes and streams… even the regulated community was clamoring for a baseline monitoring program. …folks may have forgotten how we were making major decisions in the dark. Learn more...

- J.D. Strong, Oklahoma Sec. of Environment & OWRB Exec. Director

Lake Impairments

Stream Impairments

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"Someone asked me once, ‘When can we quit spending money on all of this monitoring? Don’t we have enough data?’ which elicited my reply When can you quit going to the doctor for your annual checkup?"

- Derek Smithee, OWRB Water Quality Div. Chief

The 2010-2011 BUMP Report is just released and available for download both as full reports for streams and for lakes or in parts.

Created in 1998, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board's Beneficial Use Monitoring Program (BUMP) was developed in response to a growing awareness that key water quality management decisions were being made based on inadequate or incomplete data. Today, BUMP data provides critical information to support Oklahoma's Water Quality Standards and prioritize pollution control activities.

BUMP includes two funded components. Lakes monitoring employs fixed stations on approximately 130 lakes statewide sampled on a five-year rotation. In addition, 103 river and stream sites, both fixed and rotating stations, are sampled each year. Currently unfunded components include fixed station load monitoring, fixed station groundwater monitoring and intensive investigation sampling.

Specific objectives of BUMP are to detect and quantify long-term water quality trends, document and quantify impairments of assigned beneficial uses, and identify pollution problems before they become a pollution crisis.

In a river or stream, what is the impact of development on turbidity and how are turbidity trends affecting water or wastewater treatment costs and fish and wildlife habitat?
At what point do wastewater discharges exceed a stream's capacity to assimilate those wastes?
What are the specific effects of excessive agricultural or urban fertilizers, pesticides and related pollutants?

BUMP data has become indispensable to sound decision-making. Problem areas can now be identified before mitigation activities become too costly or are ineffective. BUMP enables the development of targeted pollution control and remediation programs. Pollution "hot spots" can be identified and activities can be modified to reduce pollution stress on waterbodies.

Ongoing state water quality monitoring through BUMP ensures that future generations of Oklahomans will be able to make fair and defensible decisions concerning both the quality and quantity of future supplies critical to the continued growth and welfare of the state. BUMP data will be an indispensible component in implementation of the Comprehensive Water Plan.

2009	2008	2007	2006


Lakes (23 MB)	Lakes (6.4 MB)	Lakes (27 MB)	Lakes (30 MB)
Streams (2.42 MB)		Streams (3.4 MB)	Streams (8.3 MB)

2005	2004	2003	2002
Lakes (1 MB)	Lakes (9.4 MB)	Lakes (11.6 MB)	Full Report (19.5 MB)
Streams (1 MB)	Streams (5.2 MB)	Streams (7.8 MB)

2001
Full Report (5.9 MB)



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