Water
Priority Data Exchanges
Profiles and Progress
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The following data exchanges are used by Network Partners to share water-related data.
Ambient Water Quality
Beach Monitoring
Under the BEACH Act (Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act), grant recipients are required to submit beach monitoring data to U.S. EPA. This data exchange allows for the reporting of beach monitoring, station location, and sample and result data … View Data Exchange
Beach Notification
Under the BEACH Act (Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act), grant recipients are required to submit beach notification data to EPA. This data exchange allows for the reporting of beach meta data, contact information, and beach advisory and closing … View Data Exchange
Chesapeake Bay Non-Point Source Best Management Practices
The U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) Non-Point Source Best Management Practices (NPS BMP) Data Exchange allows Chesapeake Bay states to submit and solicit NPS BMP data to and from CBPO. Implementation resources are available at: http://www.chesapeakebay.net/about/programs/modeling/53/#npsbmp.
Clean Water Act Integrated Reporting, Water Quality Assessment, Impaired Waters – OWIR
This exchange enables participants to submit through the Exchange Network water quality assessment and spatial data associated with Integrated Reporting under sections 303(d)/305(b) of the Clean Water Act. The OWIR-ATT data flow provides the means for States to submit Integrated … View Data Exchange
Ocean Data Partnership Exchange – ODPX
The Northeast and Coastal Ocean Data Partnership (NeCODP) developed the Ocean Data Partnership Exchange (ODPX) to accommodate a variety of non-regulatory environmental monitoring data types. The Partnership is composed of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Gulf of Maine … View Data Exchange
Pacific Northwest Water Quality Exchange
The states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska developed the Pacific Northwest Water Quality Data Exchange to aggregate and access a comprehensive source of high-quality water data in the Pacific Northwest. Working together, the states developed XML schema to share water … View Data Exchange
Water Quality Data Exchange – WQDE
This exchange has been coordinated by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Office of Information Resources Management and Water Monitoring and Standards Unit. The WQDE builds on the Water Quality eXchange (WQX) and features an enhanced WQX schema and … View Data Exchange
Water Quality Exchange – WQX
The Water Quality Exchange (WQX) allows Network Partners to share ambient water quality data with EPA. As the primary framework for sharing data at the national level and compiling data in the STORET Data Warehouse, WQX replaces the distributed STORET … View Data Exchange
Drinking Water Quality
Electronic Drinking Water Reports – eDWR
States have the primary responsibility for implementing and enforcing the drinking water standards promulgated under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). Most of the laboratory data the State Drinking Water Programs receive from either the state laboratories or private commercial … View Data Exchange
Safe Drinking Water Information System – SDWIS
This data flow allows users to submit data to the U.S. EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS). SDWIS is an EPA national database that contains information about public water systems and their violations of EPA’s drinking water regulations. Agencies … View Data Exchange
Underground Injection Controls – UIC
The Underground Injection Controls (UIC) data exchange allows Network partners to share information on underground injection wells. Underground injection is the technology of placing fluids underground, in porous formations of rocks, through wells or other similar conveyance systems. Facilities across … View Data Exchange
Geospatial Information
National Hydrography Dataset Events – NHDEvent
This exchange enables participants to submit spatial representations of surface water related features. This exchange supplements water program related data flows that exchange surface water attribute information. The NHDEvent data flow provides the means for States to submit the following … View Data Exchange
NHD Update
The NHD Update Flow enables the transmittal of updates to the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) created by local updaters or state NHD data stewards to the national NHD data repository administered by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The flow … View Data Exchange
Point Source Monitoring
Combined Animal Feeding Operations – CAFO
The Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) exchange makes state environmental data associated with CAFOs available on the Exchange Network. Under the Southeast CAFO Environmental Information Exchange pilot project, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) committed to develop a set of … View Data Exchange
ICIS-NPDES
The Integrated Compliance Information System–National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (ICIS-NPDES) data exchange allows State, Tribal, and EPA Regional users to provide NPDES data to EPA in an XML format and check the results to correct common errors that may occur … View Data Exchange
NetDMR
Built on previous efforts to create electronic discharge monitoring reports (eDMRs), NetDMR provides a generic, open-standards-based, CROMERR Approved** (see CROMERR checklist and attachments) and very thoroughly documented eDMR system. The NetDMR project was funded by two U.S. EPA Exchange Network … View Data Exchange
Other
ICIS Data Access
The ICIS Data Access data exchange allows Partners to request and receive ICIS data in XML format. The Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS) currently holds National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) and Federal Enforcement and Compliance (FE&C) data. Partners can now request … View Data Exchange