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EPAs Vision for STORET and the Role of STORET in Water Quality Management Programs

EPAs Vision for STORET and the Role of STORET in Water Quality Management Programs. Agency information efforts Office of Water information efforts Water Quality Monitoring program and STORET Ongoing STORET work. Agency Information Efforts. Office of Water Information Efforts.

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EPAs Vision for STORET and the Role of STORET in Water Quality Management Programs

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  1. EPAs Vision for STORET and the Role of STORET in Water Quality Management Programs

  2. Agency information efforts • Office of Water information efforts • Water Quality Monitoring program and STORET • Ongoing STORET work

  3. Agency Information Efforts

  4. Office of Water Information Efforts

  5. Business analysis • Data “classes” • OW business need for monitoring data and information • Decision that STORET is the sole database for monitoring data • Migration of data • OW commitment to STORET

  6. Water Quality Monitoring Programs

  7. How many of you organizationally sit in Water Monitoring Programs?

  8. Why are Water Monitoring Programs important? • Feedback on water quality management decisions

  9. How are Water Monitoring Programs changing? • Shared data and information • Requires metadata • Decisions using monitoring data have legal implications

  10. Reach Address Database TMDL Tracking System TMDL Events NHD 303(d) Events NHD Reach Indexing Tool National Assessment Database Internet 305(b) Events WQS Events STORET Events GRTS Events NHD Reach Indexing Tool GRTS WQS Database STORET WATERS: Watershed Assessment, Tracking, & Environmental Results

  11. New Guidance Documents • 2002 Integrated Reporting Guidance • CALM (Consolidated Assessment and Listing Methodology) • Elements of a State Monitoring Program

  12. The Elements of a StateMonitoring Program • Monitoring Program Strategy • Quality Assurance • Monitoring Objectives • Monitoring Design • Core Indicators of Water Quality • Data Management • Data Analysis/Assessment (CALM) • Reporting • Programmatic Evaluation • General Support and Infrastructure

  13. Office of Water memo:EPA contracts will require use of STORET, and grant requirements will be phased in.

  14. States use section 106 and 319 grants to upload monitoring data.

  15. Ongoing STORET Work • Some data-providing organizations are unable to run STORET locally. • Need all available water quality monitoring data • Goal: • Create alternative process for States and other organizations to send monitoring data to OW

  16. STORET Pilot Project • Advisory Committee on Water Information (ACWI) water quality data standard • http://wi.water.usgs.gov/pmethods/elements/elements.html • Develop XML schema • Send data through CDX to STORET • Participants: NM, VA, OR, FL, USGS • Test with two states early next year

  17. Contact Information • Margarete Heber, Chief Monitoring Branch (202) 260-7144 • Leo Gueriguian (202) 260-2557

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