Common use of Purpose of the Project Clause in Contracts

Purpose of the Project. A. The primary objectives of the Monitoring Project are to: 1. Supplement existing data on major ions, nutrients, and trace elements to enable determination of long-term water quality trends; 2. Examine the differences in water quality among water supplies within the region, especially differences among smaller upland sources, large multi-purpose reservoirs, and run-of-river supplies; 3. Provide tributary loading data and in-lake data for predictive modeling; 4. Establish a database for the presence or absence of synthetic organic compounds in surface waters in the region; and 5. Report results of the monitoring program to governmental officials, the scientific community, and the general public. B. The objectives for Phase VII of the Monitoring Project are to: 1. Continue fixed-interval water quality monitoring at the sites and frequencies and for the parameters listed on Table 1 of the Monitoring Project Proposal for Phase VI (see Attachment C); 2. Continue water quality data collection at existing tributary sites during high-flow events as shown on Table 2 of Attachment C; 3. Continue stream flow gaging at the sites shown on Table 3 of Attachment C; 4. Conduct additional monitoring and data analysis to ascertain the occurrence and distribution of algal toxins and taste and odor compounds at drinking-water intake sites in the Monitoring Project study area and prepare an interpretive report on the findings; and 5. Support the USGS application for DWQ certification for selected field parameters and laboratory analytes, including nitrogen and phosphorus fractions, chlorophyll a, and selected metals and trace elements.