CORRECT REPORTING AND ANALYSES are mandated by the U.S. EPA Clean Water Act in the NPDES permits for each of the City's treatment plants. The Legal Reporting Unit of the Environmental Monitoring Division is responsible for overseeing the preparation of all legally required monthly, quarterly, semiannual and annual reports to regulatory agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (LARWQCB), and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). Legally required reports include 52 weekly, 144 monthly, 44 quarterly, 16 semiannual and 6 annual National Pollutant Elimination System (NPDES) reports, all of which address the environmental effects of wastewater discharge from the City's four wastewater treatment plants, and air quality reports for the Hyperion Treatment Plant (HTP). EMD ensures that all its data meet QA/QC requirements and are defensible in court, checks NPDES limits for compliance, prepares NPDES/Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs), and submits the reports within legally mandated deadlines.

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Santa Monica Bay Biennial Assessment Report: 2001-02
	Chapter 1. Introduction
	Chapter 2. Effluent Quality
	Chapter 3. Microbiology Water Quality Shoreline And Inshore
	Chapter 4. Water Quality - Offshore
	Chapter 5. Sediment Chemistry
	Chapter 6. Macrofaunal Assemblages
	Chapter 7. Trawl-Caught Fish And Invertebrates
	Chapter 8. Tissue Chemistry
	Executive Summary

Santa Monica Bay Biennial Assessment Report: 2003-04
	Title Page
	Table Of Contents
	Executive Summary
	Chapter 1: Introduction
	Chapter 2: Effluent Quality
	Chapter 3: Microbiology Water Quality Shoreline And Inshore
	Chapter 4: Offshore Water Quality
	Chapter 5: Sediment Chemistry
	Chapter 6: Macrofaunal Assemblages
	Chapter 7: Trawl-Caught Invertebrates And Fish
	Chapter 8: Tissue Chemistry
	Appendix A: Acknowledgements
	Appendix B: Diversity & Multivariate Analyses
	Appendix C: Chemical Methodologies - Sediment And Tissue Measurements
	Appendix D: List Of Priority Pollutants Analyzed
	Santa Monica Bay Status Report: December 2004 (A condensed version of the Santa Monica Bay Biennial Assessment Report: 2003-04)

Santa Monica Bay Biennial Assessment Report: 2005-06
	Front Cover
	Title Page
	Table Of Contents
	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Executive Summary
	Chapter 1: Introduction
	Chapter 2: Effluent Quality
	Chapter 3: Water Quality
	Chapter 4: Sediment Chemistry
	Chapter 5: Macrofaunal Assemblages
	Chapter 6: Trawl-Caught Invertebrates And Fish
	Chapter 7: Tissue Chemistry
	Appendix A: Acknowledgements
	Appendix B: Diversity & Multivariate Analyses
	Appendix C: Chemical Methodologies - Sediment And Tissue Measurements
	Appendix D: List Of Priority Pollutants Analyzed
	Back Cover

Los Angeles Harbor Annual Assessment Report: 2002
	Chapter 1. Introduction
	Chapter 2. Effluent Quality
	Chapter 3. Microbiology
	Chapter 4. Water Quality
	Chapter 5. Sediment Chemistry
	Chapter 6. Macrofaunal Assemblages
	Chapter 7. Fish And Macroinvertebrates
	Chapter 8. Tissue Chemistry

Los Angeles Harbor Annual Assessment Report: 2003
	Chapter 1. Introduction
	Chapter 2. Effluent Quality
	Chapter 3. Microbiology
	Chapter 4. Water Quality
	Chapter 5. Sediment Chemistry
	Chapter 6. Macrofaunal Assemblages
	Chapter 7. Fish And Macroinvertebrates
	Chapter 8. Tissue Chemistry

Los Angeles Harbor Annual Assessment Report: 2004-05
	Front Cover
	Title
	Table of Contents
	List of Figures and Tables
	Executive Summary
	Chapter 1. Introduction
	Chapter 2. Effluent Quality
	Chapter 3. Microbiology
	Chapter 4. Water Quality
	Chapter 5. Sediment Chemistry
	Chapter 6. Macrofaunal Assemblages
	Chapter 7. Trawl-Caught Fish and Megainvertebrates
	Chapter 8. Tissue Chemistry
	Appendix A: Acknowledgements
	Appendix B: Diversity & Multivariate Analyses
	Appendix C: Chemical Methodologies - Sediment And Tissue Measurements
	Appendix D: List Of Priority Pollutants Analyzed
	Back Cover

Los Angeles Harbor Annual Assessment Report: 2006-07
	Front Cover
	Title
	Table of Contents
	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Executive Summary
	Chapter 1. Introduction
	Chapter 2. Effluent Quality
	Chapter 3. Microbiology
	Chapter 4. Water Quality
	Chapter 5. Sediment Chemistry
	Chapter 6. Macrofaunal Assemblages
	Chapter 7. Trawl-Caught Fish and Megainvertebrates
	Chapter 8. Tissue Chemistry
	Appendix A: Abbreviations
	Appendix B: Diversity & Multivariate Analyses
	Appendix C: Chemical Methodologies - Sediment And Tissue Measurements
	Appendix D: List Of Priority Pollutants Analyzed
	Appendix E: Acknowledgements
	Back Cover