HAB Tools
EPA is highlighting tools that will help state, Tribal and local water quality managers assess and address HABs in the following management areas:
Monitoring and Forecasting
The Trends, Monitoring Results and Forecasting pages of this website contain a variety of tools to help water quality managers with HAB monitoring and forecasting. These include a range of approaches from in situ to remotely sensed methods for all waterbody types.
Additional tools to help with monitoring and forecasting can be found across a range of EPA and other websites including:
- EPA Ambient Water Monitoring and Assessment: Resources and Tools
- ITRC HAB Monitoring Content: HCB-1 refer to Chapter 4 for Planktonic HABs and HCB-2 refer to Chapter 3 for Benthic HABs
- EPA Environmental Measurements and Modeling
- USGS NWQP Research on Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
- USGS Toxins and Harmful Algal Blooms Science Team
- NOAA HAB Forecasting - NCCOS Coastal Science
- HAB Toxin Detection Technologies
Prevention and Control
The Managing HABs pages for this website contain a variety of tools to help water quality managers with HAB prevention and control. These include both watershed and in-situ management tools.
Additional tools to help with preventing HABs through nutrient control can be found across a wide range of EPA and other websites including:
- Data and Tools to Assist States, Tribes, & Territories
- Numeric Nutrient Water Quality Criteria
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
- Permit Limits-Nutrient Permitting
- Polluted Runoff: Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution
- HAB Prevention - NCCOS Coastal Science website
- ITRC HAB Prevention and Control Content: HCB-1 - refer to Chapters 6 and 7
Response
The Managing HABs pages for this website contain a variety of tools to help water quality managers develop HAB response programs.
Additional tools to help with preventing HABs through nutrient control can be found across a wide range of other websites including:
NOAA has a substantial marine and Great Lakes HAB response program, including funding to help with response activities in these systems. NOAA marine and Great Lake HAB response information can be found at:
Funding
These links provide resources for funding HAB and HAB related activities by water quality agencies.
- CWA §319 Grants to Address Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution
- Drinking Water Grants and Other Financial Resources
- FITS: Funding Integration Tool for Source Water
- Prevention, Control, and Mitigation of HABs
- Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms
- Water Finance Clearinghouse
- Conservation Innovation Grants
- Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)
- Great Lakes Funding
- USEPA 2023 Cyanosymposium Panel Discussion on Federal HAB Funding (refer to Day 4)
- Section 604(b) Water Quality Management Planning Grants
- Section 106 Water Pollution Control Program and Water Monitoring Initiative Grants
- Clean Water State Revolving Fund
- Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program