First annual report of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program for the Upper Mississippi River System

The first Annual Report of the Long Term Resource Monitoring
Program for the Upper Mississippi River System covers the period
from September, 1986 through January 1989.  The report includes: 
program activities information concerning cooperation between
member states and agencies; a summary of the past year's data
collection effort for water quality; deviations from the Operating
Plan; critical paths and funding requirements through 1999; plans
for the coming year, and; management of the Environmental
Management Technical Center.  Technical Center Staff are divided
between Ecology and the Computerized River Information Center. 
Ecology is responsible for the analysis of significant resource
problems and for long term resource monitoring of the Upper
Mississippi River System.  The Computerized River Information
Center is responsible for supplying the necessary computer
hardware and software for geographical information systems, data
base management, modeling and statistical analysis.