Table of Acronyms

7Q2
Seven-day, two-year low-flow

AWRL
Ambient Water Reporting Limit

BMP
Best Management Practices

BOD
Biochemical Oxygen Demand

CBOD
Carbonaceous Biochemical Oxygen Demand

CMS
Coordinated Monitoring Schedule

COC
Chain of Custody

COG
Council of Governments

CR
Contact Recreation

CRP
Clean Rivers Program

DO
Dissolved Oxygen

DQO
Data Quality Objective

EIH
Environmental Institute of Houston, University of Houston—Clear Lake

EPA
Environmental Protection Agency

FC
Fecal Coliform

FY
Fiscal Year

GBEP
Galveston Bay Estuary Program

GCHD
Galveston County Health District

GIS
Geographic Information System

GPS
Global Positioning System

HCEPHD
Harris County Environmental Public Health Division

H-GAC
Houston-Galveston Area Council

HHS
City of Houston Health and Human Services

LCRA
Lower Colorado River Authority

MPN
Most Probable Number

NCR
Noncontact Recreation

NELAC
National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference

NPS
Nonpoint Source Pollution

NRCS
Natural Resources Conservation Service

O-P
Orthophosphate

PL
Pearland

QA
Quality Assurance

QM
Quality Manual

QAO
Quality Assurance Officer

QAPP
Quality Assurance Project Plan

QAS
Quality Assurance Specialist

QC
Quality Control

QMP
Quality Management Plan

RL
Reporting Limit

RWA
Receiving Water Assessment

SJRA
San Jacinto River Authority

SOP
Standard Operating Procedure

SWQM
Surface Water Quality Monitoring

TAG
Technical Advisory Group

TCEQ
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

TDS
Total Dissolved Solids

TMDL
Total Maximum Daily Load

TOC
Total Organic Carbon

TRACS
TCEQ Regulatory Activities and Compliance System

TSWQS
Texas Surface Water Quality Standards

TSS
Total Suspended Solids

UAA
Use Attainability Analysis

USGS
United States Geological Survey

VOC
Volatile Organic Carbon

VSS
Volatile Suspended Solids

WQC
City of Houston Water Quality Control

WWTF
Wastewater Treatment Facilities