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EPA’s Vision for WQX

Learn about the transition from the distributed STORET system to WQX as the means for submitting and sharing water quality data. Discover the benefits of WQX and how it supports improved water quality decisions and collaboration among multiple organizations.

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EPA’s Vision for WQX

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  1. EPA’s Vision for WQX Suzanne Schwartz, Deputy Office Director, US EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds STORET/WQX Users Conference, Austin TX

  2. STORET Progress • Status in 2004 • 140 organizations contributing data • 160,000 sites monitored • 21.5 million monitoring results • Status Today • Over 300 organizations contributing data • Over 320,000 sites monitored • About 70 million monitoring results

  3. November 2004

  4. November 2007

  5. Is STORET going away? • WQX replaces the distributed STORET system as the means for submitting data to the STORET Warehouse • With WQX, users will be able to submit data directly to the Warehouse instead of sending data to EPA Headquarters first • STORET Warehouse is NOT going away • STORET Warehouse will incorporate new data via WQX and all data previously submitted

  6. WQX is a key piece of EPA’s new direction • Water Quality Exchange (WQX) is a streamlined mechanism for submitting data to the STORET warehouse • Any database can be “mapped” to the STORET Warehouse and its data (with appropriate documentation) uploaded to the Warehouse

  7. EPA’s Vision for WQX • An integration of water monitoring data to improve water quality decisions • A standard data sharing template (schema) that multiple data partners can publish to from any database (states, consortia, USGS, others) • Water quality data management and maintenance by data owners • Data sharing and synthesis between multiple organizations, at multiple levels

  8. The Water Quality Vision

  9. Current Uses of STORET Data to Support EPA Decision Making • Serve data to modeling and data analysis activities for planning and decision making • Serve data to special need databases like Hurricane Katrina and the Nutrient Database • Make available data collected under national survey efforts (coastal, streams, fish tissue, etc) • Make available data collected under the Beaches Act • Support tribes in tracking water quality progress

  10. STORET’s Benefits • STORET Warehouse is the only multi-jurisdictional, multi-organizational data warehouse providing water quality data • Data is of documented quality and in a consistent format

  11. STORET serves data from multiple organizations in a consistent format, supports more robust analysis National Park Service Ft. Peck Tribe Sites monitored by MTDEQ (blue) Additional monitoring stations (red)

  12. Helping with the Transition • Recognizing the impact, EPA is committed to helping organizations transition from distributed STORET to WQX • R8 consortium • Exchange Network • XML Generation Tool • The STORET Team is available to help you

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