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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA STORET data

STORET (EPA): Water Quality

Data Source:

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Water and Hazardous Materials
Washington,D.C.
Phone: (202)426-7792

Data Format:

Tabular

Scale:

Not applicable

Data Coverage:

Approx. 200,000 collection points nationwide

Data Description:

STORET is a national system which can help users monitor water quality
trends, measure compliance with water quality standards, trace pollutants,
and file water quality reports, budget requests, and management basin plans.

Media:

Direct terminal access, or data can be sent from Washington
in report form and on machine-readable tapes.

Aquisition Costs:

One-time requests can be processed without charge. Regular users
can setup interagency fund transfers with the EPA or with
if a time-sharing service if used. Average charges per use are $3 to $6.

Comments:

Additional documentation includes:
"An Introduction to STORET for Water Quality Trend Analysis",
"STORET: EPA's Computerized Water Quality Data Base"
"STORET User Handbook"

All are available from the above address.

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Automatically created on: Fri Oct 20 10:09:59 2006