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Developing Procedures for Water Quality Reporting for National
Parks
Dean Tucker and Michael Matz, National Park ServiceCharles Spooner, Environmental Protection AgencyDwane Young and Randy Dodd, RTI, InternationalRobert Deffenbaugh and Cindy McKay, Horizon Systems
Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA
The National Park Service cares for 384 National Park Units in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico & the Virgin Islands.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site, MA
Places with faces…
Channel Islands National Park, CA
Yellowstone National Park, WY
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, SD
…and wide open spaces.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND
Places where you can walk the battlefield that changed the tide of the Civil War…
Gettysburg National Military Park, PA
…or learn about the man who made civil rights a reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, GA
Places that help us remember the pain…
Andersonville National Historic Site, GA
…the people…
Lincoln Memorial, DC
…and the places that forged the American character.
Fort Clatsop National Memorial, OR
Places that help us learn from ancient civilizations...
Mesa Verde National Park, CO
…and get away from civilization altogether.
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
Places with inspiring stories...
Statue of Liberty / Ellis Island National Monument, NY
…and places that give us stories to tell.
Virgin Islands National Park, VI
Jean LaFitteNational Historical Park and Preserve
French Quarter
Visitor Center
The center is located at 419 Decatur Street in the French
Quarter. The center is a site of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, established
in 1978 to help preserve and interpret the cultural diversity of
the Mississippi Delta region. Rangers at the French Quarter
Visitor Center can provide information about other park
sites, facilities, and programs. Call (504) 589-2636 for further
information.
In New Orleans
The National Park System Caring for the American Legacy
"...to promote and regulate the use of the...national parks...which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the
natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and
by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."
National Park Service Organic Act, 16 U.S.C.1.
The Mission
Water Resources of theNational Park System
• 137,400 miles of rivers & streams
• 1,550 miles of CWA 303(d)
impaired rivers & streams
Water Resources of theNational Park System
• 5,024,000 acres of lakes, reservoirs, estuaries and marine areas
• 742,260 acres of CWA 303(d) impaired lakes, reservoirs,
estuaries, and marine areas
OlympicLake Roosevelt
Glacier
John Day Fossil Beds
Grant-Kohrs Ranch
Big Hole
Nez PerceFort Vancouver
Redwood
Whiskeytown
Lava Beds
Craters of the Moon
Yellowstone Bighorn Canyon
Fort Union Trading Post
Devils Tower
Scotts Bluff
Point Reyes
Golden Gate
Channel Islands
Santa Monica Mountains
Lake Mead
Grand Canyon
Zion
Montezuma Castle
Bandelier
Pecos
Bent's Old Fort
Lake Meredith
Big Bend Amistad
San Antonio Missions
Padre Island
Big Thicket
Jean Lafitte Gulf Islands
Natchez Trace Parkway
VicksburgPoverty Point
Wilson's Creek
Tallgrass PrairieOzark
Everglades
Big Cypress
Canaveral
Timucaun
Cumberland IslandAndersonville
Ocmulgee
Congaree SwampChickamauga & Chattanooga
Mammoth CaveBig South Fork
Great Smoky Mountains
Gauley River
New River Gorge
Cuyahoga Valley
Petersburg
RichmondColonial
Assateague Island
Valley Forge
EisenhowerGettysburg
Gateway
Saratoga
Vanderbilt Mansion
Minute ManLowell
Cape Cod
Appalachian Trail
Statue of Liberty
Monocacy
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
George Washington Memorial Parkway
National Capital Parks - EastRock Creek Park
George Washington Birthplace
National Capital Parks - CentralHarpers Ferry#
Sleeping Bear Dunes
Indiana Dunes
Theodore Roosevelt
Knife River Indian Villages
Badlands
Niobrara
Mississippi
Saint CroixApostle Islands
Keweenaw
Isle Royale
Grand PortageVoyageurs
Pictured Rocks
Effigy Mounds
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Aztec Ruins
Wrangell-St. Elias
Water Quality Limited Park
Legend N
Parks with Water Quality Exceedances and Use Impairments
0 250 500 750Miles
Sources: NPS Water Resources Division, 2004
Alaska not drawn to scale
110 Parks Contain CWA 303(d) Impaired Waters
CWA governs WQ in the NPS
Seek ONRW or OSRW status
Condition NPDES permits
Cooperate with external land managers
Restoration and/or mitigation
Evaluate existing data and collect new data
National Park ServiceWater Quality Management
Servicewide Inventory and Monitoring Program
Water Quality Data
Water Body Location and Classification
Natural Resource Challenge – Water Quality – Vital Signs Networks
National Park ServiceWater Quality Management
Baseline Water Quality Data Inventory and Analysis Reports
“...to provide descriptive water quality information
in a format usable for resource management
andpark planning in
furtherance of the NPS’ mission.”
Goal:
To retrieve water quality and related data from the EPA’s STORET and other data systems;
To develop a complete inventory of retrieved data;
To characterize period-of-record, annual, and seasonal central tendencies and trends with descriptive statistics and appropriate graphics;
Objectives:
Baseline Water Quality Data Inventory and Analysis Reports
To compare water quality data with relevant EPA and WRD screening criteria;
To determine the presence/absence of “Level I” water quality data; and
To establish a park (and national) water quality database
To guide new monitoring efforts
Objectives:
Baseline Water Quality Data Inventory and Analysis Reports
234 Baseline Water Quality Data Inventory and Analysis Reports at parks
http://www.nature.nps.gov/water/horizon.htm
Need to prepare reports for 40 more parks
Status:
Baseline Water Quality Data Inventory and Analysis Reports
Redeveloping Report Procedures
Modernized STORET
Legacy STORET
USGS NWIS
Other Sources
Problems/Issues/Editorials
Limited to 30,000 results retrieved from modernized STORET Web Warehouse
STORET Web Warehouse doesn’t contain all the data in STORET
Problems/Issues/Editorials
NPS will run copies of National STORET and STORET Web Warehouse on its servers (also Legacy STORET)
Periodic refreshes from EPA
Retrieval Example for Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon National Park and Study Area
113˚
58’
55.
65’’
36˚ 51’ 51.98’’
35˚ 45’ 2.57’’
111˚ 35 ’ 5 8 .3 2’’
Create Max/Min Lat/Lon Bounding Rectangle
Pull Data from Modernized and Legacy STORET, NWIS, and Other Sources
Display ResultsRetain Only those Stations and Results from the Study Area
Problems/Issues/Editorials
Characteristics vs. Parameter Codes
Remark Codes
Units of Measure
1) Medium
2) Matrix
3) Fraction
4) Field/Lab
5) Unit of Measure
6) Temperature Basis
7) Duration Basis
8) Weight Basis
9) Statistic Type
10) Particle Basis
11) Additional Info*
12) Method
13) Value Type
14) CAS Number
Parameter Code/CharacteristicHarmonization
Adopt Modernized STORET’s “normalized” approach:
*Additional Info isn’t a field in Modernized STORET
424 Parameter Codes from Legacy STORET524 Parameter Codes from NWISMap to characteristic name or pseudo-characteristic name and up to 14 attributes
Parameter Code/CharacteristicHarmonization
P00605 NITROGEN, ORGANIC, TOTAL (MG/L AS N)
P00605 Organic nitrogen, water, unfiltered, milligrams per liter
Nitrogen organic (1275), Water, Total, Lab, mg/l
• Remark codes from Legacy STORET and NWIS mapped to appropriate report database fields
Remark Code Harmonization
Legacy STORET Remark Codes
‘A’ = Value is the mean of two or more determinations
Set:
•Value Type: Calculated
•Statistic Type: Mean
NWIS Remark Codes
‘<‘ = Actual value is known to be less than the value shown
Set:
•Detection Limit: the result value
•Result Value as Text: *Non-detect
•Result Value: Null
• Legacy STORET and NWIS Parameter Code Units of Measure will be converted to the EPA’s “Standard Units” for the characteristic.
• Standardized Units of Measure from all data sources will be converted to Preferred Units based on characteristic and medium.
Units of Measure
Result records will include 28 character CP Codes
Characteristic Permutations(CP Codes)
Characteristc 1 to 6
Medium 7
Matrix 8 to 10
Sample Fraction 11 to 12
Field/Lab 13
Unit of Measure 14 to 16
Temperature Basis 17 to 18
Duration Basis 19 to 20
Weight Basis 21
Statistic Type 22 to 23
Particle Size 24 to 28
CP Code Description
Unique autogenerated Station IDs based on location
Removal of duplicate data
Data QC (erroneous values, etc.)
Other Database StandardizationFeatures
Define a Study Area
Query Web or Local Servers
Compile Data
Integrate/Harmonize Data, Remove Duplicates, QC
Create Integrated Access Database
Process Schematic to Generate anIntegrated Access Database
Station/Characteristic Period of Record Tabulation
Generate Tables and Graphics,Compile Report
Individual Station Descriptive Statistics
0
50
100
150
200
1983 1985 1986
Individual Station Box & Whiskers Plots
20+ complex tables in Microsoft WordTime Series, Seasonal and Annual Box & Whisker PlotsHyperlinksCompiled together into one document, then converted to Adobe PDF.Invented new technology to make it workBroke down report into its individual components, with each component having properties
Generate Tables and Graphics,Compile Report
National Parks managed to leave resources unimpaired
Water quality in at least 110 units of the National Park System is impaired
Baseline Water Quality Reports
Prelude to additional inventory & monitoring activities
Share documented data in an open system
Summary
Jean LaFitte National Historical Park and Preserve – Barataria Unit
