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EPA Standard Data Elements for Reporting Water Quality Results for Chemical and Microbiological Analytes. EPA Water Quality Data Std. Developed by a partnership of states, tribes and EPA. The standard is based on the National Water Quality Monitoring Council and approved by ACWI.
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EPA Standard Data Elements for Reporting Water Quality Results forChemical and Microbiological Analytes
EPA Water Quality Data Std. • Developed by a partnership of states, tribes and EPA. • The standard is based on the National Water Quality Monitoring Council and approved by ACWI. • This State/EPA data standard was approved by the Environmental Data Standards Council on August 21, 2002.
EPA Water Quality Data Std. • This data standard uses existing data standards. • Contact Data Standard • Date Data Standard • Chemical Identification • Biological Taxonomy • Latitude/Longitude Data Standard.
Data Element Categories • 1.0 Point of Contact Data Elements • 2.0 Result and Analyte Identification Data Elements • 3.0 Reason for Sampling Data Elements • 4.0Date/TimeData Elements • 5.0 Sampling Station Location Data Elements
Data Element Categories • 6.0 Sample Collection Data Elements • 7.0 Sample AnalysisData Elements
Recent EPA Changes • 4 comment fields were added • Collapsed portions into existing standards • Added • XML Tags • Data Field lengths
