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Managing Monitoring Data from Many Sources A New Hampshire Experience. Deb Soule Watershed Management Bureau New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services May 9, 2006. Items to be covered. Background on NHDES monitoring data - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Managing Monitoring Data from Many Sources A New Hampshire Experience
Deb SouleWatershed Management Bureau
New Hampshire Department of Environmental ServicesMay 9, 2006
Items to be covered
• Background on NHDES monitoring data• Development of our own database based on EPA’s
STOrage and RETrieval (STORET) database• Web access to database• Electronic data submittal process• Next steps - Using the Water Quality Exchange Schema
Prior to 2003, how would you obtain NHDES water monitoring data?
• Be on the inside track - know someone who knew where the data was• Sort through paper lab data in file cabinets• Weed through disks and databases of various formats
We looked for a better solution.
•Reviewed commercial databases (we’re too cheap)•Asked other states if we could copy their database (cheap option but not fruitful)•Reviewed STORET (didn’t fit all our needs)•Formed a department wide committee to develop a database (couldn’t get consensus)•Began development of our own database in the bureau
Database development process
• Bureau met every 2 weeks for several months to determine needs/wants
• STORET structure and requirements were used as guidance• Organizations/Programs/Projects/Stations/Activities
• Program needs were incorporated• Business plan was developed
Core database is developed
• Called the Environmental Monitoring Database (EMD), it was built:• by one developer in-house in 4 months• by a total design/development team of 3 people: business
analyst, developer, and database administrator• using Oracle forms 6i with Oracle 8i for the back end• while working on other databases/projects
• Imported almost all old bureau data (in electronic format)
• Has automatic nightly imports of DES State Lab and bureau’s Limnology Lab data
EMD facts
• Went live March 2003• Accepts both field and lab data for air, water, soil,
product etc. • Accepts QA/QC samples and automated data logger
files• Handles physical/chemical data – biological later• Has over 110 projects, 15,000 stations, 241,000
activities, and 1,870,000 results• Contains 64 screens and 48 tables (for main part of
database only)
EMD features
• Contains modules to track complaints, beach inspections and shellfish sanitary surveys
• Fulfills beach reporting requirements (both monitoring and advisory)
• Can be linked to the Assessment Database (ADB) and is used as the basis for developing automated assessments
• Can easily create STORET Import Module (SIM) compatible export files for upload to STORET
The EMD expands within NHDES
• Other bureaus/divisions contribute data• Superfund• Site Remediation• Geology Unit• Wastewater
• Developed direct links between their databases and the EMD
• Developed department wide committee to collectively create changes to the database
The EMD beyond NHDES
• Outside agencies/groups contribute data• University of NH• Several volunteer monitoring groups• Working with other agencies to bring in their data
• We enhance/standardize their data to meet database requirements
• Will upload to STORET for them free of charge• Why do we do this? We want/need data for assessments
and the EMD is the basis for assessment data.
EMD data available on the web
• Went live June 2004• Only “final” data is available• Can query by:
Organization Project Name Station IDStation Type Town CountyState Waterbody Name River NameDesignated River HUC 12 Name AnalyteMedium
• Data returned via email in Excel/pipe delimited file complete with your query parameters
• Data available via: http://www2.des.state.nh.us/OneStop/Environmental_Monitoring_Query.aspx
Electronic data submittal to the EMD via the web
• Needed a way to receive standardized monitoring data electronically from consultants, outside labs, volunteers, cooperating agencies etc.
• Developed Excel spreadsheets to import station and activity data separately (with XML planned for the future).
• Developed web registration and submittal forms with data validation tool.
• Developed interim table to capture what was being submitted, by whom, when etc.
Next steps
• Update EMD to Environmental Sampling, Analysis and Results (ESAR) data standards
• Report data to EPA via Water Quality Data Exchange (WQX)
• Eliminate local copy of STORET• Add biological component to EMD
• eventually eliminate local copy of Ecological Data Application System (EDAS)
• Update web site to include:• graphing capabilities• geographic queries
Questions?
Contact Information:
Deb SouleBusiness Systems Analyst
Watershed Management BureauNew Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
[email protected](603) 271-8863