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Wastewater and Stormwater Services
Kinnetic Laboratories, Inc. has a long and extensive project record on watershed and stormwater monitoring, Best Management Practices (BMP`s), and receiving water projects. Kinnetic Laboratories designed and successfully carried out the first major urban watershed stormwater projects in California: the Santa Clara Valley program that predated the 1991 regulations, and the Alameda County program. These programs both won EPA awards of excellence and served as models for the Federal stormwater regulations and most of the subsequent large urban projects in California. Since then, Kinnetic Laboratories has conducted over 20 major stormwater monitoring projects encompassing both urban and rural/agricultural areas.
Over the years, Kinnetic Laboratories provided important innovations and approaches to overall watershed and stormwater sampling. These innovations include the early use of automated sampling equipment, the development of telemetered controlled stormwater stations, bioassay testing, receiving water studies coupled with contaminant input measurements, and low level organic contaminant measurement methods. In addition to documenting water quality, our methods have allowed precise measurements of contaminant loads to receiving waters important to Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) regulatory requirements.
Kinnetic Laboratories has monitored over 2,500 storm events. We have established and implemented monitoring programs in California with: the City of Long Beach, Sacramento City and County, San Diego City and County, Oxnard/Ventura, Stockton, Monterey Bay Region, Santa Clara, Alameda County, and San Mateo County. These studies have encompassed both stormwater and receiving water monitoring such as those carried out in Alamitos Bay for the City of Long Beach. Another such study is the CCLEAN (Central Coast Longterm Environmental Assessment Network) project. Here we monitor low level bioaccumulative compounds using automated samplers at the rivers and wastewater discharges, as well as a custom designed system to monitor the offshore receiving waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.