Extracting NCDENR Benthic Taxonomic Data From STORET

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Extracting NCDENR Benthic Taxonomic Data from STORET

Step 1. Go here:http://ofmpub.epa.gov/storpubl/dw_pages.querycriteria

Step 2. Select Geographic Location.

There are several options here. If restricting by county, first select NORTH CAROLINA for the State Name, then

press [Look Up] to select from the county names displayed (you can hold down [Ctrl] to select more than one

county from the list).

Restricting by 8-digit HUC is also useful. Click [Look Up] then select from the list (in HUC code order). HUCs

represented in North Carolina are:

HUC_8 HU_8_NAME HUC_8 HU_8_NAME

03010102John H Kerr Reservoir-RoanokeRiver 03040101 Yadkin River Headwaters

03010103 Dan River Headwaters 03040102 South Yadkin River

03010104 Dan River 03040103 Yadkin River

03010106 Lake Gaston-Roanoke River 03040104 Lake Tillery-Pee Dee River

03010107 Roanoke River 03040105 Rocky River

03010201 Nottoway River 03040201 Pee Dee River03010203 Chowan River 03040202 Lynches River

03010204 Meherrin River 03040203 Lumber River

03010205 Albemarle Sound 03040204 Little Pee Dee River

03020101 Tar River Headwaters 03040206 Waccamaw River

03020102 Fishing Creek 03040208 Long Bay-Atlantic Ocean

03020103 Tar River 03050101 Catawba River Headwaters

03020104 Pamlico River 03050102 South Fork Catawba River

03020105 Pamlico Sound 03050103 Catawba River

03020201 Upper Neuse River 03050105 Upper Broad River

03020202 Middle Neuse River 03060101 Seneca River

03020203 Contentnea Creek 03060102 Tugaloo River

03020204 Lower Neuse River 05050001 Upper New River

03020301 White Oak River 06010103 Watauga River

03020302 New River 06010105 French Broad River

03030002 Haw River 06010106 Pigeon River

03030003 Deep River 06010108 Nolichucky River

03030004 Little River-Cape Fear River 06010202 Little Tennessee River

03030005 Cape Fear River 06010203 Tuckasegee River

03030006 Black River 06010204 Lower Little Tennessee River

03030007 Northeast Cape Fear River 06020002 Hiwassee River

Be sure that the radio button for the option you are using has been selected (over on the left side of the

window).
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Step 3. Select Organizations.

Go to Option 2 under Organization, Station & Project. Enter NCDENRin the Organization Searchbox, then click

on [Search]. Four entries should result. Click on the first entry, then hold down [Shift] and click on the last entry.

This will highlight the four entries. Hit [Select]. The result should look like this:

Step 4. Select Date Range.

Go to the section Date, Administrative Filters. This part should be straight-forward. If you want all records for a

given area, dont enter anything to this section.

Step 4. Select Community Sampled.

Go to the section Activity Intent and Community Sampled. In the box on the right select Benthic

Macroinvertebrates.

Step 5. Go to the bottom of the page and click on [Result Download].


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Step 6. A new page will open. The only part that needs to be filled out is this:

Finish. If you select immediate processing you should get two messages fairly quickly. The second message of the two

will give a link to a zip file that can be downloaded. There will be two files in there; you want the BioResults.

Once extracted, open that text file in Excel (it is a tab delimited file).

There will be a bunch of fields there you wont need. The most important ones are: Station ID, Station Latitude,

Station Longitude, Activity Start (the sample date), Subject Taxon, and Result Value as Text.

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