Issue 5, 2008

The SSC cycle: a PDCA approach to address site-specific characteristics in a continuous shallow water quality monitoring project

Abstract

In any water quality-monitoring project there are several critical success factors that must be adequately addressed in order to ensure the implementation and realization of the monitoring objectives. Site selection is one of these critical success factors. The monitoring sites must be selected to comply with the monitoring and data quality objectives. In the real world, ideal monitoring setting conditions are difficult to achieve, and compromises must be made in order to locate the monitoring stations that best represent the environment to be monitored. Site-specific characteristics are all the environmental, logistical and management factors particular to the monitoring site, that could influence the fulfilment of the monitoring and data quality objectives. Therefore, during the site selection process, it is essential to properly consider and evaluate these site-specific characteristics. The SSC cycle was developed with this goal in mind, to assist the monitoring team to systematically address site-specific characteristics. The cycle is a methodology to organize the site-specific characteristics in different categories, and to ensure a comprehensive overview of these characteristics throughout the project life cycle.

Graphical abstract: The SSC cycle: a PDCA approach to address site-specific characteristics in a continuous shallow water quality monitoring project

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
12 Nov 2007
Accepted
12 Mar 2008
First published
04 Apr 2008

J. Environ. Monit., 2008,10, 604-611

The SSC cycle: a PDCA approach to address site-specific characteristics in a continuous shallow water quality monitoring project

E. J. Miles, J. Environ. Monit., 2008, 10, 604 DOI: 10.1039/B717406C

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