EPA Water Quality Data Std.
The EPA Standard Data Elements establish guidelines for reporting water quality results related to chemical and microbiological analyses. Developed collaboratively by states, tribes, and the EPA, this standard is grounded in the National Water Quality Monitoring Council framework and received approval from the Environmental Data Standards Council on August 21, 2002. It incorporates existing data standards and includes elements for contact information, result and analyte identification, reasons for sampling, data collection, and sample analysis while recently incorporating comment fields and XML tags to enhance usability.
EPA Water Quality Data Std.
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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
