This data set contains locations of and information on water quality monitoring sites that are within EPA's Storage and Retrieval (STORET) System. Water quality monitoring information comes from EPA's STORET System, a repository of physical, chemical and biological monitoring data from state and federal agencies, watershed organizations, volunteer groups and many others. Surface water, Ground water, and Others are general categories for more specific STORET Station Types. Water quality monitoring is a crucial aspect to protecting water resources. State, Tribal, and Federal agencies must monitor lakes, streams, rivers, and other types of water bodies to assist them in determining water quality condition. From these monitoring activities, water quality monitoring data is generated. Without this data, water resource managers cannot know where pollution problems exist, where we need to focus our pollution control energies, or where we've made progress. The STORET Data Warehouse is EPA's repository of the water quality monitoring data collected by water resource management groups across the country. These organizations, including states, tribes, watershed groups, other federal agencies, volunteer groups and universities, submit data to the STORET Warehouse in order to make their data publically accessible. Data can then be re-used for analysis. WQX is the framework by which organizations submit data to the Warehouse. This is an update to the FGDL layer EPASTORET_APR16.
The Storage and Retrieval (STORET) System is used by EPA programs, regions, states, and water programs for monitoring water quality.
Water Quality Portal (WQP) The Water Quality Portal (WQP) is a cooperative service sponsored by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC). The Water Quality Data Portal (WQP) provides an easy way to access data stored in various large water quality databases. The WQP provides various input parameters on the form including location, site, sampling, and date parameters to filter and customize the returned results. The WQP can return site information (locations where samples were collected), or it can return sample results (analytical data of collected samples). Any field in the form left blank will cause a search for all parameters in that field. For example, if a user selects US and California for the country and state respectively, but leaves the county field blank, data will be returned for all counties in California. This is also true of the fields under "SITE PARAMETERS" and "SAMPLING PARAMETERS". Equivalent data retrievals can be performed using web services, which have the same input parameters and predefined output formats offered through the form. For more information and examples on accessing the web services, see the Web Services Guide. Users less familiar with the standard notation used to encode a web services request may find the form more convenient. As the form is filled out, a URL can be generated by clicking on "Show RESTlike queries" at the bottom of the form. This can be used as the URL to access the data through web services. Available Databases USGS NWIS - Water-resources data collected from approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. NWIS is updated every 24 h. Data recently added to NWIS may not be immediately accessible through the WQP. Data is available for each location since the beginning of the database. USEPA STORET - A data warehouse for water quality, biological, and physical data used by state environmental agencies, EPA, other federal agencies, universities, private citizens, and others. STORET is updated weekly on Thursday evening. Data recently added to STORET may not be immediately accessible through the WQP. The portal will return data from each location since the beginning of the database. http://www.waterqualitydata.us/portal_userguide.jsp
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GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.
Locations are tested and reported individually
Completeness of the data set varies for individual features.
This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan
This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan
Spatial and Attribute Information
USEPA STORET - A data warehouse for water quality, biological, and physical data used by state environmental agencies, EPA, other federal agencies, universities, private citizens, and others. STORET is updated weekly on Thursday evening. Data recently added to STORET may not be immediately accessible through the WQP. The portal will return data from each location since the beginning of the database. http://www.waterqualitydata.us/portal_userguide.jsp
GeoPlan Center downloaded the spatial data (.CSV) from the following
National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC) Website on 20170711:
EPA Water Quality Data Portal
http://www.waterqualitydata.us/index.jsp
LOCATION:
Country: US
State: FLORIDA
SITE PARAMETERS
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Station.csv
The Station.csv had Latitude and Longitude fields in the following projection.
The Add XY Data Tool was used to convert the table to a point layer.
Original Projection
Name: GCS_WGS_1984
Details:
Angular Unit: Degree (0.017453292519943295)
Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.000000000000000000)
Datum: D_WGS_1984
Spheroid: WGS_1984
Semimajor Axis: 6378137.000000000000000000
Semiminor Axis: 6356752.314245179300000000
Inverse Flattening: 298.257223563000030000
Next the data was reprojected to Albers NAD83 Harn.
Next point errors located in the ocean were removed.
For a small subset of records, latitude and longitude values
were modified to fix obvious errors. See FLAG field definition
for details.
Added FLAG field
Added DESCRIPT field based on FAC_NAME.
Added FGDLAQDATE field.
Dataset copied.
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Feature geometry.
ESRI
AGENCY + STATION. A designator used to describe the unique name, number, or code assigned to identify the monitoring location.
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Station Code.
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Description of station location. The designator specified by the sampling organization for the site at which sampling or other activities are conducted.
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Agency Code. A designator used to uniquely identify a unique business establishment within a context.
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Agency Name. The legal designator (i.e. formal name) of an organization.
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Station Type. A site type is a generalized location in the hydrologic cycle, or a man-made feature thought to affect the hydrologic conditions measured at a site. Select from a list of site types represented in the source databases. Site types that exist in only one data source are indicated with the database in parentheses. More than one site type may be selected. Multiple site types are listed in the field separated by semicolons.
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Station water monitoring site is of an estuary. A coastal inlet of the sea or ocean; esp. the mouth of a river, where tide water normally mixes with stream water (modified, Webster). Salinity in estuaries typically ranges from 1 to 25 Practical Salinity Units (psu), as compared oceanic values around 35 psu.
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Station water monitoring site is of a facility. A non-ambient location where environmental measurements are expected to be strongly influenced by current or previous activities of humans.
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Station water monitoring site is of a lake. An inland body of standing fresh or saline water that is generally too deep to permit submerged aquatic vegetation to take root across the entire body (cf: wetland). This site type includes an expanded part of a river, a reservoir behind a dam, and a natural or excavated depression containing a water body without surface-water inlet and/or outlet.
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Station water monitoring site is of a land feature. A location on the surface of the earth that is not normally saturated with water. Land sites are appropriate for sampling vegetation, overland flow of water, or measuring land-surface properties such as temperature. (See also: Wetland).
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Station water monitoring site is of an ocean. Site in the open ocean, gulf, or sea. (See also: Estuary).
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Station water monitoring site is of a river/stream. A body of running water moving under gravity flow in a defined channel. The channel may be entirely natural, or altered by engineering practices through straightening, dredging, and (or) lining.
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Station water monitoring site is of a spring. A location at which the water table intersects the land surface, resulting in a natural flow of groundwater to the surface. Springs may be perennial, intermittent, or ephemeral.
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Station water monitoring site is of a subsurface feature. A location below the land surface, but not a well, soil hole, or excavation.
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Station water monitoring site is of a well. A hole or shaft constructed in the earth intended to be used to locate, sample, or develop groundwater, oil, gas, or some other subsurface material.
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Station water monitoring site is of a wetland. Land where saturation with water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities living in the soil and on its surface (Cowardin, December 1979). Wetlands are found from the tundra to the tropics and on every continent except Antarctica. Wetlands are areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas. Wetlands may be forested or unforested, and naturally or artificially created.
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Station water monitoring site is of a Groundwater feature. A location below the land surface that cannot otherwise be categorized within the other site types.
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Station water monitoring site is of a Surface water feature. A water body on the land surface that cannot otherwise be categorized within the other site types.
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Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) for facility location. The federal code used to identify the hydrologic unit of the monitoring location to the cataloging unit level of precision. Full hydrologic unit codes (HUCs) or partial HUCs using trailing wildcards ("*") may be entered. Only trailing wildcards are accepted. More than one HUC may be entered, separated by semicolons.
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County Name.
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Latitude of facility, site, or operable unit, in Decimal Degrees.
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Longitude of facility, site, or operable unit, in Decimal Degrees.
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Based on the field LOCATION.
GeoPlan
Type of update performed by GeoPlan.
GeoPlan
Longitude value edited
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Latitude value edited
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The date FGDL acquired the data from the Source.
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Unique ID added by GeoPlan
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