{"id":108,"date":"2021-06-30T06:46:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T06:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:56:31","slug":"monitoring-assessment-and-standards-section","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/monitoring-assessment-and-standards-section\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring, Assessment and Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Surface Water Quality Bureau &#8211; Monitoring, Assessment, and Standards Section (MASS) consists of the following three teams &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>Monitoring Team<\/strong>&nbsp;is responsible for the <a href=\"\/surface-water-quality\/water-quality-monitoring\/\">collection of water quality data<\/a> for all New Mexico lakes, streams, and rivers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>Standards and Outreach Team<\/strong>&nbsp;is responsible for developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/protocols-and-planning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">planning documents<\/a> in addition to <a href=\"\/surface-water-quality\/wqs\/\">water quality standards<\/a> for the surface waters of New Mexico.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>TMDL and Assessment Team<\/strong>&nbsp;is responsible for&nbsp;the development of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/calm\/\">Comprehensive Assessment and&nbsp;Listing Methodology<\/a> (CALM) document&nbsp;for&nbsp;determining whether the state\u2019s waterbodies are attaining water quality standards and supporting designated uses. The results of&nbsp;this assessment&nbsp;are used for reporting&nbsp;through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/303d-305b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">303(d)\/305(b) Integrated Report <\/a>and the development of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/tmdl\/\">total maximum daily load<\/a> (TMDL) documents for each waterbody not meeting standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key MASS Documents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/sop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/qaqc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quality Control\/Quality Assurance (QA\/QC)<\/a> information<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/wqmp-cpp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Water Quality Management Plan\/Continuing Planning Process (WQMP\/CPP)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/10\/10-yearmonitoringplan_FINAL_June2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Monitoring and Assessment Strategy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/12\/Air-WaterTemperatureCorrelation08-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Air-Water Temperature Correlation Model<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data submittal <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/data-submittals\/\" target=\"_blank\">guidelines<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NMED blue-green algae <a href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/03\/BlueGreenAlgaeFAQ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FAQ<\/a> and NMED-HABs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/habs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NMED-SWQB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/storymaps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ArcGIS StoryMaps<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/fish-consumption-advisories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fish Consumption Advisory Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Surface Water Quality Bureau &#8211; Monitoring, Assessment, and Standards Section (MASS) consists of the following three teams &#8211; Key MASS Documents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/surface-water-quality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}