Surface-water quality-assurance plan for the U.S. Geological Survey Washington Water Science Center

Data management plan for the U.S. Geological Survey Washington Water Science Center

“…Groundwater (Kozar and Kahle, 2013): https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131151 Water Quality (Conn and others, 2017): https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171044 Surface Water (Mastin, 2017): https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161020 The Project Chief works with the appropriate LDM to establish any new sites in the National Water Information System (NWIS) Groundwater Site Inventory (GWSI) database per the process described in the Center's QA plans. The Project Chief works with the surface water LDM to establish new time series (TS) in NWIS-TS (raw data is entered into Aquarius, the software that processes the data for entry into NWIS; collectively, this database system is called NWIS-TS).…”

Quality-assurance plan for water-quality activities in the U.S. Geological Survey Washington Water Science Center

“…River and stream sites established at existing surface-water gaging stations commonly will need only supplemental information in addition to the Station Description created for the gaging station (Mastin, 2016). Station-description requirements for continuous water-quality stations are presented by Wagner and others (2006).…”

“…The electronic directory structure and naming conventions are described in appendix E of Mastin (2016). Steps for completing the primary record include: Once the data are edited, the record is submitted to a second data-reviewer for review.…”

“…Original electronic records generated for all Data-managed continuous and discrete stations are stored by Station ID. The electronic directory structure for Data-managed "Continuous Surface-Water and Related Records" is described in appendix E of Mastin (2016).…”

“…A map-based graphical user interface (MAPS) is used to autopopulate additional site location information (such as, hydrologic unit code or Water Resource Inventory Area) based on latitude and longitude. Consultation with the appropriate discipline specialist during site establishment is advised to ensure that the minimum requirements of the WAWSC are met (Lane, 2006;Kozar and Kahle, 2013;Mastin, 2016). …”