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Steve Bauer
Boise, Idaho

steve@pocketwater.com

 

 



 

Services

Water Quality Monitoring & Design Data Analysis/Report Writing
Clean Water Act Assessments Watershed Analysis
Water Monitoring Equipment Water Quality Monitoring and Design

We assist clients with each assessment phase - monitoring design, field assessment, data analysis, and report preparation.  An objective based approach to monitoring plans assures that field studies address specific environmental questions.  A scientific framework for monitoring saves time and dollars in the long run by providing defensible information needed for balanced decision-making.  Our experience with continuous monitoring helps clients in choosing the right equipment for the project. Services we provide include: 

  • Design of Water Quality Monitoring Networks
  • Quality Assurance/Quality Control Plans
  • Nonpoint Source Assessments - grazing, mining, forestry, dryland agriculture, and irrigated agriculture
  • Aquatic Habitat Evaluations
  • Development of State and EPA Approved Water Quality Monitoring Plans
  • Field Protocol Documents (guidance for technicians)
  • Event-Based Monitoring for Storm and Snowmelt Driven Pollutants
  • Automated and Continuous Monitoring Equipment
  • Specify Analytical Requirements and Coordination with Certified Laboratories
  • Experience with Temperature, Nutrients, Metals, Turbidity, Sediment Monitoring, etc.
Data Analysis/Report Writing
We have the tools and experience to organize and evaluate water quality, stream habitat, and bio-monitoring data.  We use integrated software to organize databases, evaluate information with spreadsheet, statistical, and graphics programs, and write informative reports.  Reports can be printed in hard copy, output to compact discs, and/or published on the internet.   We can assist clients with specific elements of their data analysis, or complete the report from start to finish.
  • Database development (MS Access)
  • Literature Search
  • Bibliographic compilation (ProCite)
  • Spatial data interface (ArcView)
  • Data analysis (SigmaStat, SigmaPlot)
  • Experienced information evaluation and synthesis
Clean Water Act Assessments
Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and watershed assessment are major initiatives of the Clean Water Act (CWA).  A TMDL is a written, quantitative assessment of water quality problems, contributing sources, and allocation of pollutants in the watershed.   We evaluate the underlying assumptions of a TMDL and assess nonpoint pollutant contributions.   We help clients address basic questions inherent in developing a TMDL.  What are the beneficial uses in the waterbody?  Are these uses attainable? What are the limiting factors?   What are the contributing sources in the watershed?  These basic biological and environmental interactions are often overlooked in the current rush to meet court-directed deadlines.  A more holistic view of water quality evaluation requires a watershed assessment framework.  Pocket Water Inc. networks with a broad spectrum of natural resource professionals to apply watershed assessment principles to CWA assessments (See Watershed Analysis below.)   Services that we provide include: 
  • TMDL problem assessments
  • Watershed analysis<
  • Aquatic and riparian habitat condition
  • Beneficial use attainability analysis
  • Pollutant load calculation and allocation
  • Nonpoint Source Assessment
  • Water quality criteria evaluation
  • Water chemistry and biomonitoring
Watershed Analysis
Watershed analysis is a systematic procedure for characterizing watershed and ecological processes.  Watershed analysis consists of technically rigorous and defensible procedures that are designed to: 1) characterize the chemical, physical, and biological processes active within a watershed; 2) spatially identify where these processes occur in the watershed; 3) describe the current upland, riparian, and stream channel conditions; and 4) assess how these factors influence water quality, beneficial uses, and aquatic and riparian habitats.  Watershed analysis is organized as a set of modules that examine processes in a watershed which include:
  • Mass wasting
  • Surface erosion
  • Hydrology
  • Geomorphology
  • Stream channel morphology
  • Water quality
  • Riparian condition
  • Fish and wildlife habitat
  • Habitat diversity
  • Monitoring
  • Environmental documentation

Pocket Water Inc. is a member of the Watershed Professionals Network (WPN), a group of natural resource professionals with broad experience in watershed analysis.  WPN members have completed numerous watershed analyses, and conducted investigations of sediment transport, water quality, soils, hillslope stability, and erosion.  WPN members have developed portions of the Washington Department of Natural Resource Watershed Analysis Methodology, the Oregon Watershed Analysis Methodology, and watershed analyses procedures in California.

WPN - www.watershednet.com

Water Monitoring Equipment
Pocket Water Inc. has water quality sampling and monitoring equipment and specialized continuous data loggers for client projects.   Pocket Water Inc. assists clients with acquiring the appropriate equipment to meet monitoring objectives.   Basic equipment includes:
  • Depth-integrated water quality samplers
  • Marsh McBirney flow meter
  • Macroinvertebrate sampling equipment
  • Smith Root Backpack Electro-fisher
  • Campbell Scientific Dataloggers
  • Custom made continuous turbidity dataloggers (logger, turbidity sensor, deep cycle battery, solar panel)
  • Water level data recorders
  • Temperature dataloggers
  • Digital Imaging
Associated Services
  • Instrumentation design and water quality modeling - Rapid Creek Research   www.rcresearch.com
  • Aquatic bioassessment, macroinvertebrate and fish identification - EcoAnalysts, Inc.  www.ecoanalysts.com
  • Geographic Information Systems, spatial analysis - Environmental Data Capture
  • Bibliographic compilation, literature search, and document retrieval - Inez Hopkins Research

 

 

 
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