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Nutrient and pesticide data collected from the USGS National Water Quality Network and previous networks, 1950-2022

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1950-10-01
End Date
2022-09-30

Citation

Casey Lee, 2023, Nutrient and pesticide data collected from the USGS National Water Quality Network and previous networks, 1950-2022: U.S. Geological Survey.

Summary

The National Water Quality Network (NWQN) for Rivers and Streams includes 110 surface-water river and stream sites monitored by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Program, National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project. The NWQN includes 20 large river coastal sites, 41 large river inland sites, 30 wadeable stream reference sites, 10 wadeable stream urban sites, and 9 wadeable stream agricultural sites. In addition to the 110 NWQN sites, 36 sites from the USGS Cooperative Water Program are also included in this data release. This data release provides streamflow, nutrient, pesticide and sediment data collected and analyzed by NWQN and other historical water-quality networks from 1950-2022. This dataset includes [...]

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Point of Contact :
Casey Lee, USGS
Originator :
Casey Lee
Metadata Contact :
Casey Lee, USGS
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
Casey Lee, U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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NWQN_2023.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		73.64 KB application/fgdc+xml
aflow.csv
“Annual flow data” 		358.92 KB text/csv
dflow.csv
“Daily flow data” 		154.5 MB text/csv
discqw.csv
“Discrete water-quality results” 		32.12 MB text/csv
NWQN_sites.csv
“NWQN site data” 		27.87 KB text/csv
pestname.csv
“Pesticide abbreviations, long names, USGS parameter codes, and (CAS) numbers” 		38.02 KB text/csv
pestsamp.csv
“Discrete pesticide results” 		236.89 MB text/csv
WRTDSloads.csv
“WRTDS loads, flow-normalized loads, and flow-normalized concentrations” 		7.55 MB text/csv
WRTDStrends.csv
“WRTDS trends on annual flow-normalized loads and concentrations” 		326.66 KB text/csv
mflow.csv
“Monthly flow data” 		4.49 MB text/csv

Purpose

Data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Network (NWQN) are used to characterize the status and trends of water quality throughout the United States. Primary objectives of the NWQN are to: • determine the status and trends of loads and concentrations of contaminants, nutrients, and sediment in the Nation's large rivers, including loads to selected major estuaries; • determine the status and trends of concentrations of contaminants, nutrients, and sediment for selected wadeable streams in selected land-use and environmental settings; and In an effort to meet these objectives, the USGS annually releases nutrient and pesticide concentration and load data collected from the NWQN. These metadata describe 9 data tables that are part of this data release.

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