| Standard Operating Procedures |
| Bureau of Environmental Protection |
| Summary Guidance for Reviewing Environmental Monitoring Data |
| Policy for Considering Environmental Justice in the Review of Investigation and Remediation of Contaminated Properties |
| Office of Waste Management - Superfund Program |
| WM-SF-1- Standard Operating Procedure for Civil Surveying at the Rose Hill Landfill |
| WM-SF-2- Standard Operating Procedure for Surface Water, Leachate and Sediment Sampling at the Rose Hill Landfill |
| WM-SF-3- Standard Operating Procedure for Underground Utility Location at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 4 |
| WM-SF-4- Standard Operating Procedure for Soil Gas Survey and Evaluation at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 1 |
| WM-SF-5- Standard Operating Procedure for Visual-Manual Identification of Soil at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 5, January 1997 |
| WM-SF-6- Standard Operating Procedure for Test pitting and Soil Sampling at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 3, January 1997 |
| WM-SF-7- Standard Operating Procedure for Well Gauging Purging and Sampling at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 5 |
| WM-SF-8- Standard Operating Procedure for Disposal of Bailed Product at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 4 |
| WM-SF-9- Standard Operating Procedure for Well Rehabilitation at the Rose Hill Landfill, Rev. 1, January 1997 |
| WM-SF-10- Standard Operating Procedure for Low Flow Purging and Sampling Procedures for the Collection of Water Samples from Monitoring Wells |
| WM-SF-11- Standard Operating Techniques - Drilling at Rose Hill Landfill |
| WM-SF-12- Standard Operating Techniques - Soil Gas Survey and Evaluation at Rose Hill Landfill |
| WM-SF-13- Standard Operating Techniques - Sampling of Surface Water and Water-Formed Deposits - Rose Hill Landfill |
| WM-SF-14- Standard Operating Procedure - Surface Water Sampling West Kingston Town Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-15- Standard Operating Procedure for Soil and Sediment Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-16- Standard Operating Procedure for Equipment Decontamination- W. Kingston Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-17- Standard Operating Procedure for Soil and Sediment Sampling- W. Kingston Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-18- Standard Operating Procedure for Air Monitoring- W. Kingston Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-19- Standard Operating Procedure for Vapor Diffusion Sampling in Sediments (Volatile Organic Compounds)- W. Kingston Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-20- Standard Operating Procedure for Pore Water Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-21- Standard Operating Procedure for Terrain Conductivity (Em-31) Method Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-22- Standard Operating Procedure for Test Pit Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-23- Standard Operating Procedure for Groundwater Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-24- Standard Operating Procedure for Small Diameter Well Point Installation and Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-25- Standard Operating Procedure for Seismic Refraction Method Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-26- Standard Operating Procedure for Monitoring Well Installation- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-27- Standard Operating Procedure for Hydraulic Conductivity Testing- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-28- Standard Operating Procedure for Tap Water/Residential Well Groundwater Sampling- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI |
| WM-SF-29- Standard Operating Procedure for Preparation & Analysis of Dioxin and Furans Samples by USEPA Method 8290- W. Kingston Town Dump/URI |
| Office of Waste Management - LUST Program |
| Standard Operating Procedure for Field Sampling |
| Office of Waste Management - Site Remediation |
| WM-30- Certifying a Site-Specific Quality Assurance Project Plan Addendum |
| WM-19- Chain of Custody Procedures |
| WM-4- Chip, Wipe, and Sweep Sampling |
| WM-16- Controlled Pumping Test |
| WM-2- Drum Sampling |
| WM-12- Groundwater Well Sampling |
| WM-14- Manual Water Level Measurement |
| WM-15- Monitor Well Development |
| WM-13- Monitoring Well Installation |
| WM-18- Photoionization Detector (PID) Hnu3 |
| WM-21- Removal Program Representative Sampling Guidance-Volume 1 Soil 6 |
| WM-22- Residential Well Sampling (for Chemical Analysis)- Field Sampling SOP |
| WM-1- Sampling Equipment Decontaimnation |
| WM-10- Sediment Sampling |
| WM-20- Site and Safety Considerations |
| WM-17- Slug Test |
| WM-7- Soil Gas Sampling |
| WM-6- Soil Sampling |
| WM-8- Soil Sampling and Surface Geophysics |
| WM-9- Surface Water Sampling |
| WM-3- Tank Sampling |
| WM-5- Waste Pile Sampling |
| Office of Water Resources |
| WR-W-01: Bacteria Field Sampling SOP |
| WR-W-02: Equipment Maintenance/Calibration - Current Meters - SOP |
| WR-W-03: Fecal Coliform Sample Collection SOP |
| WR-W-04: Field Data Sheet |
| WR-W-05: Measuring Stream Discharge- Field Sampling SOP |
| WR-W-06: Order of Activities - Sampling |
| SOP-WR-W-7: SOP for Secchi Disk Measurements
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| WR-W-08: Rapid Bioassessment Protocol For Use In Streams and Wadeable Rivers: Benthic Macroinvertebrates |
| WR-W-09: Measuring Culvert Stage & Flow-Field Sampling SOP |
| WR-W-10: Reading the Staff Gauge - Field Sampling SOP |
| WR-W-11: Hand-Dip Sampling for the Collection of Surface Water for the Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds |
| WR-W-12: Total Phosphorous Sample Collection SOP |
| WR-W-13: Installation and Operation of the Rainew Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge Field Sampling SOP |
| WR-W-14: Temperature, Specific Conductance, Dissolved Oxygen, Salinity Field Sampling SOP |
| WR-W-15: Chain of Custody Form - Watershed Watch |
| WR-W-16: Deep Ponds: Weekly and Biweekly Water Monitoring SOP |
| WR-W-17: Shallow Ponds: Weekly and Biweekly Monitoring SOP |
| WR-W-18: Shallow Ponds: Tri-season Water Monitoring and Collection SOP |
| WR-W-19: Deep Ponds: Tri-season Water Monitoring and Collection SOP |
| WR-W-20: Chlorophyll and Nutrients Sample Collection SOP |
| WR-W-21: Shellfish Growing Area Monitoring Program SOP |
| WR-W-22: Sampling Non-preserved Bottles |
| WR-W-23: Sampling Preserved Bottles |
| WR-W-24: Sampling Sediment TOC |
| WR-W-25: Field Procedures |
| WR-W-26: TMDL Photo SOP |
| WRR-W-27: User Fee Priority Pollutant Monitoring |
| WR-W-30: SOP for Water Column Profile – Lakes, Ponds, and Reservoirs |
| WR-W-31: SOP for Macrophyte Cover – Lakes, Ponds, and Reservoirs |
| WR-W-32: SOP for Bottle - Direct Water Samples- Lakes, Ponds, Reservoirs |
| WR-W-34: SOP for the Measurement of Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature, Specific Conductance, pH and Nitrate Using a Handheld YSI Professional Plus Instrument |
| WR-W-35: SOP for Stream Canopy Measurements by Densiometer |
| WR-W-36: SOP for Measurement of Benthic Algae Cover by Viewing Bucket |
| WR-W-37: SOP for Collection of Benthic Algae from Natural and Artificial Substrates |
| WR-GNUWW-1: Sediment Sampling Plan for Dredging Projects |
| Quality Manager |
| OD-QM-1: Procedure for Developing and Approving SOPs |
| OD-QM-2: DEM Standard Operating Procedure for Developing QAPPs and SAPs |
| OD-QM-3: Draft Standard Operating Procedure for Developing and Approving Policies |
| OD-QM-4: Digital Photograph Record Collection and Storage SOP |
| OD-QM-5: Electronic Document PDF Submission Standard Operating Procedure |
| OD-QM-6: DEM Quality System Management Assessment SOP |
| Emergency Response |
| Environmental Response Plans & Forms |
| Water Resources |
| QAPP Description |
Contact |
Approval Date |
| TMDL-Providence/Seekonk River, 1995 - 1996 |
Liz Scott |
6/95 |
| TMDL-Runnins River Dry Weather Coliphage, 1999 |
Liz Scott |
1999 |
| TMDL-Kickemuit Reservoir Nutrients and Pathogens, 2000 |
Liz Scott |
2000 |
| Woonasquatucket River metals and fecal coliform, 2001 |
Liz Scott |
9/00 |
| Saugatucket River Pathogens, 2000 |
Liz Scott |
4/01 |
| TMDL-Barrington/Palmer/Runnins Wet Weather Pathogens, 1998 |
Liz Scott |
4/01 |
| TMDL-Barrington and Runnins River Dry Weather Pathogens, 1998 - 1999 |
Liz Scott |
4/01 |
| 303(d) Supplemental Monitoring, 1998-1999 |
Liz Scott |
4/01 |
| Narrow River Pathogens, 1999 - 2000 |
Liz Scott |
4/01 |
| Hunt River Pathogens, 1999 |
Liz Scott |
4/01 |
| Greenwich Bay Wet Weather Pathogens, 2000 - 2001 |
Liz Scott |
5/01 |
| Ninigret / Green Hill Ponds 1999-2000 |
Liz Scott |
6/01 |
| Greenwich Bay Nutrients 2000 - 2001 |
Liz Scott |
6/01 |
| Dry and Wet Weather Bacteriological Sampling - Green Hill Pond, Ninigret Pond, Factory Brook, and Teal Brook |
Liz Scott |
6/01 |
| Crooked Brook |
Liz Scott |
6/01 |
| Optical Brightening Study- Green Hill Pond, Ninigret Pond, Factory Brook, Teal Brook |
Liz Scott |
6/01 |
| Dry and Wet Weather Metals (Copper, Lead and Zinc) Water Quality Sampling of Indian Run Brook and Source, 2001 |
Liz Scott |
6/01 |
| Sands Pond Nutrients, 2001 |
Liz Scott |
7/01 |
| Mashapaug Pond Nutrients, 2001 - 2002 |
Liz Scott |
7/01 |
| TMDL-Barrington/Palmer/Warren Pathogens, 1996 including Belcher Stream - East, Wet Weather |
Liz Scott |
9/01 |
| Stafford Pond Follow-up Monitoring |
Ken Ayers, Elizabeth Scott |
10/01 |
| Point Judith Pond |
Liz Scott |
2001 |
| RIDEM’s 2000 303(d) List of Impaired Waters
Supplemental Monitoring Program (Groups 3 and 4) |
Liz Scott |
2/02 |
| Field Sampling of Alternative and Innovative Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems |
George Loomis- URI |
9/03 |
Ambient River Monitoring Program-DEM
2011 Addendum
2012 Addendum |
Connie Carey, DEM
Katie DeGoosh, DEM
Katie DeGoosh, DEM |
12/10
12/11
1/13 |
| Ambient Water Quality Monitoring of RI Rivers-URI |
Dr. Ray Wright, URI
Eric Schneider |
8/04 |
| Bacteria, Metals and Biodiversity Monitoring of the Blackstone River |
Skip Viator |
2/05 |
| Blackstone River Various, 2001 - 2003 |
Louis Berger Inc./
Liz Scott |
2/05 |
| Watershed Watch Analytical Lab Procedures |
Linda Green URI/
Eric Schneider |
6/05 |
| Ambient Water Quality Monitoring of RI Lakes- URI |
Linda Green URI/
Eric Schneider |
9/05 |
| Narragansett Bay Fixed-Site Monitoring Network (NBFSMN) |
Heather Stoffel/
Sue Kiernan |
1/06 |
| Wet Weather Bacteriological Sampling - Mt. Hope Bay/Kickimuit |
Brian Zalewsky |
4/06 |
| Protection of Vulnerable Wetlands - Queen's River Watershed |
Carol Murphy |
5/06 |
| Buckeye Brook and Sources, Pathogens |
Skip Viator |
9/06 |
| Little Narragansett Bay and Pawcatuck River Bacteria Sampling Plan |
Heidi Travers |
5/07 |
| Ten Mile River Water Quality Sampling Plan |
Brian Zalewsky |
6/07 |
| Ten Mile River Project Overview |
Brian Zalewsky |
6/07 |
| Evaluating Outcomes - Permitting |
Carol Murphy |
10/07 |
| Nonpoint Source Grant Program QAPP |
Ernie Panciera |
11/07 |
| Taxonomic Identification of Benthic Macroinvertebrates- Biomonitoring for Wadeable Streams |
Eric Schneider |
3/08 |
| Protecting Vernal Pools |
Carol Murphy |
3/08 |
| Buckeye Brook Biodiversity |
Skip Viator |
7/08 |
| Freshwater Wetland Monitoring Year 3 |
Carol Murphy |
9/08 |
| Biomonitoring of Rhode Island Non-wadeable Streams |
Katie DeGoosh |
10/08 |
| Bissel Cove |
Liz Scott |
2008 |
| Generic Lake Monitoring QAPP |
Jane Sawyers |
8/11 |
| Freshwater Numeric Nutrient Criteria Development Data Analysis |
Jane Sawyers |
12/11 |
