Data Sources

This page tracks data sources relevant to the project.

Data Categories

Short Term

• USGS nitrate monitoring stations (superstations) in Mississippi River Watershed
  • http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/current?type=qw&PARAmeter_cds=STATION_NM,DATETIME,00630,99124,00631,99133,99137
• NPDES Discharge monitoring reporting loading tool (POTW point sources) (Industrial Point Sources)
  • http://cfpub.epa.gov/dmr/index.cfm

Longer Term

• Municipal Water 
  • Drinking Water - Currently looking into intake monitoring that will be done by Illinois American Water (Ted, December '15)
• Fertilizer Data
  
  • You would calculate the total amount by county divided by area, gives you a nitrogen load.
  • You know how much fertilizer is sold in that county. We know the area of the county, and John Chick can get the percentage of the county that is cropland.

"Completed"

• NGRREC 
  • Greon Buoys
• USGS Water Quality (superstations) 
• UMRR LTRM
• Water Quality Portal
• NOAA

Other

• NOAA National Data Buoy Center (Ted's note: I don't think this is something we need to include on GLTG; however, it may be useful for us to have our data included in their site)

MISC NOTES:

Site Metadata

Categorize Each site?:

• Active / Inactive
• Manual Collection / Continuous Stream (Circle? / Square?)
• Sources

Data Formats and Protocols

Support NOAA National Data Buoy Center protocol and requirements?

Nitrate Data

Nitrate and Nitrite As N mg/L