What proportion of stream miles support X% of expected species richness and or macro-invertebrate species richness?
Streamlining between states’ water body assessments and their subsequent interpretations is a broader goal of the Wadeable Streams project. By developing and refining approaches where uniform interpretations of ecological aquatic health can be made, notwithstanding state boundaries and methods used, regional water body assessments can be similarly made and interpreted. This improves methods, providing a way for reaching the goal of moving towards normalizing water quality assessments nationally, and approaches the goal of fulfilling the original intent of the national water quality inventory. This project is a collaboration between the EPA New England Regional Laboratory (NERL), the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (NEIWPCC), and EPA ORD’s Atlantic Ecology Division (AED) in Narragansett, RI. NEIWPCC was awarded a cooperative agreement to support this project. Substantial assistance has been provided by AED in the form of developing a design for probability samp
