SCCWRP and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works have developed an index scoring tool that rates the overall performance of various structural stormwater BMPs (best management practices) based … More
Articles by: Emily Lau
Bight ’23 study assessing effects of ocean acidification on shell-forming organisms
The Ocean Acidification study element of the Southern California Bight 2023 Regional Monitoring Program has launched a two-year effort to track how ocean acidification is adversely affecting shell-forming organisms in … More
Bight ’23 kicking off regional assessment of eelgrass bed health
The Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program is kicking off a first-of-its-kind regional monitoring survey this September to evaluate the health of the region’s eelgrass beds based on their ecological … More
Study quantifies human fecal pollution in urban stormwater
SCCWRP and its partners have completed a sweeping, five-year investigation quantifying the relative contributions of six major sources of human fecal contamination in the San Diego River watershed during wet … More
Tools being finalized to help determine whether streams subject to Clean Water Act
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are preparing to release final versions of flow classification tools intended to help watershed managers determine which streams … More
Study investigates using low-cost sensors to automate detection of illicit discharges
SCCWRP and Orange County Public Works have launched a two-year study investigating the feasibility and logistics of using low-cost field sensors to automate detection of illicit pollutant discharges that can … More
Year 2 monitoring completed to support regional BMP monitoring network
The Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition (SMC) has completed the second sampling year of its new Regional BMP Monitoring Network, collecting data from six stormwater BMPs across Southern California during … More
Year 1 sampling completed in effort to measure how well bioretention BMPs remove microplastics in runoff
SCCWRP and its partners have completed the first season of wet-weather sampling for a two-year study investigating the effectiveness of bioretention BMPs (best management practices) at removing microplastics pollution from … More
Pilot phase completed for mechanistic study seeking to open BMP “black box”
SCCWRP and its partners have successfully completed the pilot testing phase for a three-year study working to characterize the mechanistic inner processes by which biofiltration stormwater BMPs (best management practices) … More
Special journal issue highlights effort to standardize microplastics measurement methods
An international effort to standardize the methods being used to measure microplastics in a range of aquatic matrices is chronicled in a newly published special issue of the journal Chemosphere. … More