{"id":11349,"date":"2020-01-09T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T16:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch-draft\/?page_id=11349"},"modified":"2024-07-08T16:28:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:28:38","slug":"quality-assurance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/resources\/quality-assurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Assurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">URI Watershed Watch Quality Assurance<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"justify\">URI Watershed Watch data are intended to be used by the local programs that help support it, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM), Rhode Island Department of Health (RIHealth), the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and others. That means that the data&nbsp; must be credible and meet the needs of these organizations. URI Watershed Watch ensures the quality of our data through our Quality Assurance Project Plans or QAPPs which are approved by both RIDEM and USEPA. <span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">These QAPPs document the <\/span><em style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">Who, What, When,<\/em><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">Where,Why<\/em><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">How&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">our monitoring occurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Here are our approved QAPPs<span style=\"color: #ff6600\">*<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/LabQAPP-v7b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">URI WW Analytical Laboratory QAPP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1BzCfSr0OJtmTBk4I4nbrM8WTchKwvKjP\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laboratory QAPP Appendix &#8211; Lab Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/QAPPField-v4b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">URI WW Ambient and Field Assays QAPP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/Field-SOPs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Field QAPP Appendix &#8211; Field SOPs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/BIGHPQAPPfinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">URI WW Block Island and Green Hill Pond Ambient and Marine Field Monitoring Program QAPP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">*These QAPPs are available for use in the development of your own QAPP. Please recognize that working through the process of determining your own data requirements and quality control methods is essential in creating a plan that will meet your needs.<\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URI Watershed Watch Quality Assurance URI Watershed Watch data are intended to be used by the local programs that help support it, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM), Rhode Island Department of Health (RIHealth), the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and others. That means that the data&nbsp; must be credible and meet the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3449,"featured_media":0,"parent":11316,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-11349","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14519,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11349\/revisions\/14519"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}