Standard Operating Procedures

Described here are the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for completing a level-one biosurvey. These SOPs are designed and intended for the assessment of wadeable streams.

Described here are the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for completing an advanced biosurvey. These SOPs are designed and intended for the assessment of wadeable streams.

This document describes the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for water quality sample collection. The focus of this document is volunteers but it is applicable for any third party water quality data colleciton.

Includes links to lab-style ID-sheet and labels.

The composition of the streambed and banks is an important facet of stream character, influencing channel form and hydraulics, erosion rates, sediment supply, and other parameters.

Listed here are select projects and reports where WV Save Our Streams Program played the lead or active role.

The purpose of the program’s QAQC manual is to provide the background and the basic structure and organization of the SOS Program.

USEPA's Volunteer Monitoring: A Methods Manual was written to provide a better understanding of the concepts and procedures needed to evaluate the conditions of streams and rivers.

Many professional and volunteer monitoring programs throughout the United States use a rectangular style kick-net. The reasons are simple; it is easy to use and versatile.

The procedures described here are mostly for advanced volunteer monitors; however level-one streamside procedures can be modified if collections from low-gradient (muddy bottom) streams are necessary.

Most of the equipment listed in table one is provided at no charge to volunteer monitoring groups who complete a stream monitoring certification workshop and agree to an MOU.

The typical stream reach has riffles, pools and runs and should be perennial. The X-site (X) is the furthest downstream location, it is usually where the latitude and longitude readings are taken.

USEPA's Rapid Bioassessment Protocols.

WVDEP's Watershed Assessment Branch SOP

Nonpoint Source Program’s Streambank monitoring protocols

WV Save Our Stream's Scientific Collection Permit