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

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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

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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