WQDE/WQX-WEB UPDATE
Paul Morton, Leslie McGeorge and Alena Baldwin-BrownNJDEP Division of Water Monitoring and Standards
New Jersey Water Monitoring CouncilUS Geological Survey – NJ Water Science CenterMay 23, 2018
NJDEP Water Monitoring and Standards
WQX-Web Training at DRBC 2/15/2018
▪ MERI-Rutgers▪ NJ Pinelands Commission▪ Raritan Headwaters Association▪ Stony Brook Millstone Watershed
Association
▪ NJDEP Bureau of Freshwater & Biological Monitoring
▪ NDEP Bureau of Environmental Analysis, Restoration and Standards
▪ DRBC▪ USEPA Region 2
▪ 15 participants
Led by DwaneYoung, USEPA HQ
NJDEP Water Monitoring and Standards
Topics Covered
▪ What is WQX and WQX-Web?
▪ Logging onto WQX-Web
▪ Templates for entering Projects, Monitoring Locations and Results
▪ Retrievals via the Water Quality Portal
▪ Tools for consuming WQP Web Services
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WQDE Training at NJDEP 4/24/2018
▪ Barnegat Bay Partnership
▪ Brick Twp MUA
▪ Great Swamp Watershed Association
▪ Crafts Creek Watershed Association
▪ MERI Rutgers
▪ Montclair University
▪ NJ City University
▪ NJ Harbor Dischargers Group
▪ NJ Water Supply Authority
▪ NY/NY Baykeepers
▪ Raritan Headwaters
▪ NJDEP Bureau of Freshwater and Biological Monitoring
▪ NJDEP Bureau of Environmental Analysis Restoration and Standards
▪ NJDEP Bureau of Marine Water Monitoring
▪ NJDEP Division of Science, Research and Environmental Health
▪ NJDEP Division of Water Quality
▪ 34 participants
NJDEP Water Monitoring and Standards
WQDE Training Topics
Demonstration Hands-On
▪ What is WQDE?
▪ Using NJ-GeoWeb to find and display ambient WQ data
▪ Using the Water Quality Portal to display ambient WQ data
▪ Data Transformation – Tips and Hacks
▪ Logging in to NJDEP Online/WQDE
▪ Entering Projects via Web Forms
▪ Entering Monitoring Locations via Web Forms
▪ Batch loading Monitoring Locations, Field, Habitat, Chem, Taxa and Metric/Index Results
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WQDE Overview and Demonstrations
All photos courtesy ofNJDEP DWM&S
NJDEP Water Monitoring and Standards
UsingNJ-Geoweband the Water Quality Portal
All photos courtesy ofNJDEP DWM&S
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WQDE Training Follow Up
▪ Enhance the WQDE Web Page
Update Data Dictionary
Update User’s Guide
Update Data Entry Template (Excel)
▪ Enhance NJ-GeoWeb to Display Biological Metrics and Indices
▪ Survey of Participants for Additional Training Needs
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Water Quality Portal Improvements
▪ Download QAPPs
▪ Download Monitoring Location photos
▪ Monitoring Location Latitude/Longitude with all results
▪ Project Identifiers with all results
▪ Activity Relative Depth with results
▪ Fix Column Name misspellings
▪ Hyperlinks to all metadata (analytical methods, detection limits, lab sample prep and lab accrediation)
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WQX 3.0 (12/2019)
▪ Switching to USGS’ BioData as the source for taxa names
▪ Requiring citations/sources for taxa names with data submissions
▪ Eliminating unused data elements
▪ Changing what’s mandatory/optional for some data elements (sample fraction, method speciation, detection limits)
▪ Considering prohibiting spaces in all identifiers (Project, Monitoring Location, Activity, etc.)
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STORET Warehouse Ending
▪ STORET Warehouse Web site will be turned off by June 30, 2018
▪ Water Quality Portal will be the source for data retrievals
▪ EPA will continue the STORET Help Desk and the WQX web site
▪ Users will continue to submit data via WQX-Web and the Central Data Exchange (CDX)
▪ Database at EPA will be called the “WQX Database”
NJDEP Water Monitoring and Standards
STORET User Call – 5/24/18 @ Noon
▪ User Feedback Discussion –Your Questions and Issues
▪ STORET Training Videos Update
▪ Metals Best Practices Guide Update
▪ Demo: Data Discovery Tool Updates
▪ Join by Phone: +1 (202) 991-0477
▪ Conference ID: 8324166
▪ Webinar Link http://epawebconferencing.acms.com/wqxqa/
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WATER QUALITY DATA EXCHANGE &AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT IN NJ
Leslie McGeorge, Biswarup Guha, Jack Pflaumer, Dave Rosenman & Paul Morton
Division of Water Monitoring & StandardsNew Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
ACWA Monitoring, Standards & Assessment WebinarMay 16, 2018