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# About SWAMP
## SWAMP
SWAMP sits within the Water Board's Office of Information Management and Analysis (OIMA), which serves as an advocate for data management, a bridge between data collectors and users, as well as, provides transparency of the Water Board's information management infrastructure.
> The SWAMP mission is to provide resource managers, decision makers, and the public with timely, high-quality data, information and tools needed to evaluate the condition of all surface waters throughout California.
SWAMP accomplishes this through carefully designed, externally reviewed statewide and regional surface water monitoring programs, and by assisting other entities state-wide in the generation of comparable data that can be brought together in integrated assessments that provide answers to current management questions. In addition to providing information and tools, SWAMP's vision is to help enhance monitoring, assessment and reporting activities throughout the Water Boards.
Statewide SWAMP Monitoring Programs include:
- [Bioaccumulation Monitoring Program](https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/bioaccumulation_monitoring.html)
- [Bioassessment Program](https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/bioassessment/)
- [Freshwater and Estuarine HABs Program](https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/freshwater_cyanobacteria.html)
- [Toxicology and Contaminants Program](https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/spot/)
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## SWAMP IQ
SWAMP IQ assists SWAMP Statewide and Regional monitoring programs, and other ambient monitoring projects and programs throughout the state by offering resources that support each stage of water quality monitoring, from sample collection to data entry, as well as providing quality assurance review, verification, and data storage.
> SWAMP IQ strives to promote question-driven monitoring, and to ensure the highest quality data is used to evaluate the health of California's water bodies.
## Core Principles
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Values = **WHO** we are and the foundation of how we work
Purpose = **WHY** we do what we do
Vision = **WHERE** we want to go
Mission = **HOW** we work to achieve our vision
Paragraphs below were pulled from existing SWAMP SAP - AH recommends reviewing and revising to make more succinct (\~1 sentence each) and better aligned with descriptions above.
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### Our Values
Link to OIMA & Water Boards value documents and describe how we apply those to SWAMP
### Our Purpose
Reference - State Water Board Strategic Plan, Open Data Resolution, etc.
### Our Vision
Water Board monitoring data and information are used to inform decisions that help protect and restore California watersheds, and to provide California communities with easy to find, up to date information about the conditions of their local lakes, rivers and streams.
### Our Mission
Our mission is to generate high quality, accessible, and usable data and information that is used to protect and restore California’s watersheds, and to inform California communities about local conditions of waterbodies monitored by SWAMP.
### Guiding Principles
SWAMP has established the following guiding principles as the foundation upon which to prioritize its actions (SWAMP Strategy, 2010):
- SWAMP monitoring evaluates the physical, chemical, and biological integrity of California’s waters.
- Monitoring and assessment at both statewide and regional levels is necessary to protect and restore water quality.
- Monitoring of both high-quality waters and those known or suspected to be degraded is essential to a robust ambient monitoring program.
- Monitoring is designed to support a network of information users that include state, federal, and local agencies, the regulated community, the interested public, and their elected representatives.
- Monitoring efforts are prioritized and coordinated to maximize utility and minimize costs.
- SWAMP seeks to make the most efficient use of data collected by all Water Board programs, as well as the large amount of data collected by other agencies and the regulated community.
## Background & History
Pull from SWAMP SAP?
## Key Contacts
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## Key Resources
*Best to integrate links below into text above and delete this section altogether*
| Purpose | Webpage |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Overview of SWAMP | [SWAMP Website](https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/) |
| Overview of SWAMP IQ | [SWAMP IQ Website](https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/swamp_iq) |
| Current SWAMP program priorities and strategies | [SWAMP Strategic Action Plan, 2020-2023](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g08L8GUHdEMLCxNS1vppNEXobf4bYOmK/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118425894617420506258&rtpof=true&sd=true) |
| Detailed overview of SWAMP monitoring standards and requirements | [SWAMP Quality Assurance Program Plan (QAPP), 2022-2024](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16QmALh0kkREJSKMvVb6fcKkLsWiAsiTAIJKfzpBRoPc/edit#heading=h.q961pnmk2sje) |
| Overview of OIMA | [OIMA Website](https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/resources/oima/) |
| Strategic actions to improve the way the Water Boards use data and information about CA water resources | State Water Resources Control Board [Strategic Data Action Plan (SDAP), draft](https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/resources/data_databases/docs/sdap_draft.pdf) |
| Projects carried out in the SDAP | State Water Resources Control Board [SDAP, project portfolio summaries](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kg0tzfRJljwsmFQ2Qyzt_rPW8CrXX3oKWO6myH3ECVo/edit?usp=sharing) |