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Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council & Colorado Data Sharing Network Committees
The Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council (CWQMC) has been organized to meet the current needs of its members. In 2007, the CWQMC developed a new vision, mission, and organizational structure based on feedback received from meetings held with water data users, generators and members over a multi-year period. These are documented in detail in the Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council Charter.
The CWQMC currently has 4 working committees (the Leadership Team and Executive Committee duties specified in the Charter have been combined). New committee members are welcome at anytime. Meetings are usually held in the Denver-metro area and may be attended in person or by calling in on the telephone conference line announced on the meeting agenda.
While CWQMC was devoting most of its energy and resources toward implementing the Colorado Data Sharing Network (CDSN) Work Plan between 2004 and 2007, other objectives that initiated the interest of CWQMC's original members did not receive as much attention. We are now looking to expand our committees and other Council activities and services.
CWQMC continues to solicit feed back on data management needs and the services that the Council should provide to better serve the public and water data community. We strongly encourage anyone with a need for water quality data collection, data management, mentoring, or networking to contact one of our committee chairs or the CWQMC staff. We are here to serve the entire Colorado water data community!
 Leadership Team/Executive Committee (LT)
The Leadership Team is a voting entity that has geographic and local, state and federal representation of entities that are committed to provide strategic planning and guidance to achieve organization vision and mission, leadership, program and fiscal accountability including evaluation. The Leadership Team is charged with providing oversight, accountability and direction for both the Monitoring Council and the CDSN project. The Leadership Team generally meets six times per year and develops and adopts an annual work plan and budget. This is the key body for communication from subcommittees, projects and outcomes with the larger community. Decision making process is by infoconsent. The intent is to have representation on this Committee from all major water basins.
Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
The Technical Advisory Committee provides the technical assistance for the Data Sharing Network project elements and all future Council projects including training workshops.
Outreach Committee
The Outreach Committee: will organize and implement activities such as Data Swaps, data calls, conferences, workshops, and training sessions. This committee will also assist the Executive Committee with sponsorship drives. Funding in the past has been from grants and from member contributions. Future funding needs will require additional resources.
Mentoring Team (MT)
The Mentoring Team assists CWQMC members by matching skillsets of the committee with requests by individuals or organizations requesting mentoring assistance. Examples of Mentoring Team assistance available by request include review of data sets, watershed monitoring plans, project design, and quality assurance recommendations.
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