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USEPA - Sediment and Water Data

EPA sediment and water data
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Overview

Collection of sediment and water data from various projects conducted by the U.S. EPA or collaborators, or sent by primary investigators to be housed with EPA data. Includes data from all 50 states between 1965 and 2006. A list of included projects may be found on the Links to Documents tab.

Source Agency: U.S. EPA
Agency/Project Website: http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/
Medium: sediment cores, water
Start Date: 1965

Contact

Colleen Mason,
mason.colleen@epa.gov

Address
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Mail Code 6204J, Washington DC, DC 20460

Phone: 202-343-9641 Fax: 202-343-2360

Name of datasetEPA sediment and water data
Geographic areaUnited States
State/Provinceall states
Activity CategoryMonitoring
Mediumsediment cores, water
Approximate size of dataset8188
Positional data available?yes for most
Start Date1965
End Date2006
StatusOngoing
Frequency of samplingvaries by project
Collection Monthsvaries by project
Historic # Of Sampling Locations8188
Size of Sampling AreaNorth America
Methodsvaries by project
Additional InfoData collection details available through individual project PIs (see table)
Data UseUnrestricted
Quality Assuranceno
Data FormatMicrosoft Excel
Data downloadable on external website?Some
Other Databasesparts of this dataset are also in one or more other databases (STORET, others)
CommentsThis dataset includes data from multiple projects (see Linked to Documents tab). This file has not undergone QAQC.