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Columbia River Basin Restoration Working Group

About the working group

The Columbia River Basin Restoration Working Group includes over 500 participants from states, Tribes, industries, and non-governmental organizations. The group meets semi-annually to share information on toxics reduction projects and coordinate on monitoring across the Columbia River Basin.

More information: Fact Sheet: Columbia River Basin Restoration Program (pdf) (887.66 KB, August 2025)

Meetings

The working group meets two times each year, led and coordinated by EPA. Meetings are open to the public and anyone may participate.

Next meeting

October 30, 2025 (virtual only)
9am-12pm (Pacific) | 10am – 1pm (Mountain)

  • Information about how to attend will be provided closer to the meeting date.

Past meetings

  • Working Group Meeting Summary: June 10, 2025 (Virtual) (pdf) (1006.67 KB)
  • Working Group Meeting Summary: October 31, 2024 (Virtual) (pdf) (2.06 MB)
  • Working Group Meeting Summary: May 22-23, 2024 (Spokane) (pdf) (7.87 MB)

Additional materials from past meetings are available on EPA's file sharing site: Meeting Summaries and Presentations.


Toxics Monitoring Subgroup

The ad hoc Toxics Monitoring Subgroup is a forum for grantees to share monitoring activities, discuss analytical methods, ask questions of EPA and other grantees, and share information and best practices about monitoring in the Basin.

Subgroup meetings

Visit the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership's CRBRP Toxics Monitoring Subgroup page for meeting information.

Past subgroup meetings

Slide presentations and other meeting materials are available on EPA's file sharing site:
  • Meeting summaries and presentations
  • Video: WQX presentation from April 28, 2022 (YouTube)

Toxics monitoring dashboard

The Columbia River Basin Toxics Monitoring Dashboard visualizes the data collected in the Toxics Monitoring Project Tracking Matrix. Together they are intended to advance the broad understanding of toxics monitoring efforts in the Basin (who’s doing what, where, when, and how), help facilitate coordination and collaboration among toxics monitoring projects, and assist with identifying information gaps.

For more information about the Toxics Monitoring Subgroup, contact gs-crbtoxmon@usgs.gov.


Work products

Below are some of the technical and informational products developed by the working group, including:

  • Columbia River Basin Contaminants of Concern Framework
  • Toxic-Impaired Waterbodies on 303d Lists in the Columbia River Basin
  • Columbia River Basin Toxic Contaminants Reference List
  • 2019 Columbia River Basin Toxics Reduction Status Update
  • Story Map: Willamette River Toxics Reduction Partnership
  • Story Map: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons - Locations in the Columbia River Basin Where the Toxics Could Be Affecting Fish and Wildlife
  • 2014 Strategy for Measuring, Documenting and Reducing Chemicals of Emerging Concern
  • 2010 Columbia River Toxics Reduction Action Plan
  • 2009 State of the River Report for Toxics
  • Prioritization of Toxics in the Columbia River

Contacts

For questions, please email us at ColumbiaRiverBasinGrant@epa.gov.

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Last updated on August 5, 2025
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