Data and Tools
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User Guide Version 3.0 for Water Quality Exchange Web
This document provides a full guidance for using the Water Quality Exchange (WQX) Web site.
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WQX Flow Configuration 3.0
This document contains data validation rules, services and schema. The principle document which captures the detailed data exchange processing rules governing WQX using narrative text, diagrams and examples.
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Assessment Unit (AU) Batch Upload Instructions
Assessment Unit (AU) Batch Upload Instructions – This explains how to use the Assessment Unit (AU) Batch Upload, as of the August 2021 ATTAINS Release.
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ATTAINS Calculations of EPA IR Categories
This explains the data elements in ATTAINS that are used to calculate the EPA Integrated Reporting Category for Assessments.
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ATTAINS-How to Apply TMDL Action to Assessments
This explains how to apply an Action to an Assessment.
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ATTAINS - How To Rename a Parameter
This applies to cause parameter names that had been used in an earlier cycle that have since been retired.
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ATTAINS - How to Enter a TMDL Action
This explains how to create and enter a new TMDL Action in the ATTAINS User Interface.
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How to Enter State Survey Results
This explains how to enter state statistical (probability) survey results in the ATTAINS User Interface.
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How to Unlock and Modify Actions
This explains how to unlock and modify previously finalized Actions in ATTAINS.
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Mapping your Dataset to Water Quality Exchange Web
This document was developed to assist with the mapping of your desired dataset format to an import configuration and submitting data to STORET.
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WQX Metals Best Practices Guide
The goal of the WQX Metals Best Practices Guide is to increase the quality of metals data records in WQX.
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How to Calculate a Parameter as EPA IR Category 4B in ATTAINS
How to Calculate a Parameter as EPA IR Category 4B in ATTAINS This explains how to create a 4B Restoration Approach Action (in the Actions tab) and associate it with an Assessment and Parameter (in the Assessments tab) to calculate them as EPA IR Cate
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ATTAINS In-depth Data Model Visualization
Draft ATTAINS Schema Visualization
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ATTAINS High-level Data Model Visualization
Draft ATTAINS High-level Schema Model
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How to Upload Geospatial (GIS) Data in ATTAINS
o How to Upload Geospatial (GIS) Data in ATTAINS
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ATTAINS Tips Using TMDL Actions Batch Upload Template
This provides tips to know when using the TMDL Actions Batch Upload Template.
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Best Practices for Sharing Benthics Data
The Water Quality eXchange (WQX) Benthic Macroinvertebrate Best Practices Guide was created to guide organizations in submitting benthic macroinvertebrate data to WQX. It was also created to make submitting benthic macroinvertebrate datasets
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How to Access and Use ATTAINS Web Services
This document explains how to use ATTAINS Web Services to access public ATTAINS data, including how to generate the URL to query an ATTAINS REST service. It provides the base URL for each service, and the query parameters available for that service.
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Features Available in ATTAINS Cycle Summary Reports
This explains some of the new features available in the ATTAINS Summary Reports (Assessments, Uses, Parameters, and Sources) as of the August 2019 release.
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How to Enter State Metrics for How’s My Waterway
This explains how to enter information for the metrics, URLs and the descriptive paragraph that appear on the top of the State tab of How’s My Waterway 2.0. Changes made in the Metrics area of ATTAINS will appear in the second release of How’s My Waterway