Adaptively Manage. The Toxic Contaminants Workgroup will assess the management implications from the research findings and decide on updates (that are required every two years) needed to policy and prevention strategy to address contaminants beyond PCBs. There will be interchange between the research and policy and prevention teams of the TCW to discuss evolution of research issues every two years to support management needs.
Adaptively Manage. The Toxic Contaminants Workgroup used the information learned over the past two years to update the management strategy and associated LAP for the Research Outcome. There is interchange between the members of the TCW to discuss evolution of research factors and gaps every two year in alignment with the SRS reviews.
Adaptively Manage. In a dynamic environment like the Bay watershed, changes during the next 15 years change is inevitable. It may be possible to accommodate some of those changes within the existing Bay TMDL framework without the need to revise it in whole, or in part. The CBP partnership has committed to take an adaptive management approach to the Bay TMDL and incorporate new scientific understandings into the Bay TMDL through the midpoint
Adaptively Manage. Adaptive management will focus foremost on monitoring information described under type 2) above where there will be assessment of whether management actions are having the expected results in terms of PCB reductions. Over time, it is expected the TCW will learn which loading pathways and sources provide the greatest opportunities for continued reductions. Other adaptations to the strategy will result from assessing the long term response of the system (type 3 monitoring above) and, in the short term, whether the TCW and other entities are completing work as planned (type 1 monitoring above).
