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Enhancing Data Sharing and Access: STORET and WQX

Enhancing Data Sharing and Access: STORET and WQX. The STORET Program. STORET: STOrage and RETrieval of water quality monitoring data EPA’s STORET Program: promotes sound data management practices

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Enhancing Data Sharing and Access: STORET and WQX

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  1. Enhancing Data Sharing and Access: STORET and WQX

  2. The STORET Program • STORET: STOrage and RETrieval of water quality monitoring data • EPA’s STORET Program: • promotes sound data management practices • stores and maintains water quality data submitted by agencies/groups across the nation in the STORET Data Warehouse 3

  3. The National STORET Data Warehouse • A national repository of water quality monitoring data – “Modernized STORET” • Stores water data of all types (biological, chemical, physical) submitted by states, tribes, watershed groups, other federal agencies, and universities • Web-enabled: Data are available -- and can be submitted -- using the Web • Encourages data sharing at a national level

  4. Who Puts Data in? • State environmental agencies • Tribal environmental agencies and groups • Volunteer groups and watershed organizations • Universities • Federal Agencies

  5. Importance of Data Sharing • State and Tribal 106 Program • Water Quality Programs require Monitoring Strategies that include monitoring objectives, design, etc. • Water monitoring data management and sharing is vital • Biannual Assessment Reporting • State 305(b) and 303(d) programs and Integrated Reporting • Cross jurisdictional monitoring data in support of water quality condition assessments

  6. Managing Data Locally • Data sharing at a national level benefits from: • Well documented data at a local level • Well managed data at a local level

  7. WQX Flow

  8. Exchange Network • WQX is one of many media “flows” on the Exchange Network • Grants available to all organizations that wish to submit via WQX • States (DEQs, DPHs, Ag agencies); Tribes • Have various goals – basic capacity to mentoring • WQX gets over 20 proposals every year (more than any other flow in OW)

  9. Goals of the WQX Effort • Make data submittal to WQX easier • Make data sharing more sustainable • Make it easier to get data out of STORET

  10. Goal 1: Data Easier to submit • WQX 1.0 was released in February 2007 • Since then we’ve received >7 million results via WQX • WQX 2.0 was released in July 2008 • Convened a workgroup • Identified and discussed data elements • Finalized the schema in April 2008 • WQX Web currently available • Small organization’s data submission tool

  11. Goal 2: More Sustainable • WQX is based around the ‘Science of water monitoring’, not a technology • No longer chasing a specific technology • No longer force our data partners to run a particular software in order to share data

  12. Goal 3: Easier to get data out of STORET • Began efforts to revamp sections of the STORET web site • Created new mapping interfaces • Created Watershed summary reports • Created Web Services

  13. What does WQX mean for users? • Distributed STORET users: • Need to get a replacement database • Found that a lot of states where mainly using distributed STORET as a way of submitting – not to actually manage data • Non distributed STORET users: • Can continue to use their own databases • Must “map” their data to the common schema • Small users • WQX Web is the tool they can use

  14. State / Tribal WQX Users • The following organizations, by region, have submitted data via WQX • R1: ME DEP, VT DEC, RI DEM • R3: PA DEP, DE DNREC, DRBC, WV DEP • R4: GA EPD • R5: WI DNR, MI DEQ • R6: TX CEQ • R7: EPA R7 monitoring program • R8: Wind River Tribes • R9: Yurok Tribe, Big Valley Rancheria, Hualapai • R10: Stillaguamish Tribe • BEACHES programs across many states

  15. Data Coverage: 2004

  16. 2008

  17. WQX Web • A new tool that is easy to use for submitting data to EPA • Accepts basic input formats (i.e. Excel Spreadsheets) • Tool will have translations for mapping data to WQX domain values or defaults • Tool creates WQX XML that a user can send through the WQX framework

  18. Accessing Data The National STORET Data Warehouse serves as the national repository for Modern STORET data as well as WQX data. Users may obtain data from the warehouse through the STORET home page : www.epa.gov/storet Web services providing direct access to warehouse data will also provide enhanced accessibility to the data.

  19. STORET Warehouse Updates • The National STORET Data Warehouse enhancements for improved data accessibility • New Watershed Summary – Available Now • New Web Services – Available Now • Please visit the STORET website for more information : www.epa.gov/storet

  20. Watershed Summary Examples

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