Note: This information is provided for reference purposes only. Although the information provided here was accurate and current when first created, it is now outdated. |
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This web site provides query access to over 200 million monitoring records originally reported to EPA via the Legacy STORET System. |
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Legacy STORET Level 5 | ||||||||||||||||
Name | Description | |||||||||||||||
SPRAY | Site where water has been sprayed on the surface of the land for purposes of irrigation | |||||||||||||||
SBSOIL | Subsoil - a drain title system or other points just below the surface of the land | |||||||||||||||
HRZTL | Horizontal well | |||||||||||||||
TUNNEL | Tunnel - an underground corridor | |||||||||||||||
GALERY | Gallery - an artificial, underground structure implanted to collect groundwater | |||||||||||||||
PRECIP | Wet atmospheric deposition (precipitation) due to the condensation of water vapor. Include mist, rain, sleet, snow, and hail | |||||||||||||||
NRSHRE | Near shore -less than 3 kilometers (approximately 1.9 miles) from a major shore | |||||||||||||||
OFSHRE | Off shore -from 3 to 8 kilometers (approximately 1.9 to 5 miles) from a major shore | |||||||||||||||
OPENLK | Open water - greater than 8 kilometers (approximately 5 miles) from a major shore | |||||||||||||||
RUNOFF | Stormwater runoff | |||||||||||||||
STMSWR | Stormwater sewer | |||||||||||||||
SANSWR | Sanitary sewer | |||||||||||||||
CMBSWR | Combined "STMSWR" and "SANSWR" | |||||||||||||||
SUPPLY | Water supply storage or treatment facility | |||||||||||||||
NET | Fixed site network station | |||||||||||||||
MONITR | Source monitoring site, which monitors a known problem or to detect a specific problem | |||||||||||||||
HAZARD | Site of hazardous or toxic wastes or substances | |||||||||||||||
BACK | Monitoring for background (baseline) water quality. Opposite of "DOWN" | |||||||||||||||
DOWN | Down (i.e., within a potentially polluted area) from a facility which has a potential to pollute. See also "DOWNGR" and "UPGR" | |||||||||||||||
MET | Site where sampling is performed to describe scientific phenomena related to meteorological conditions, such as temperature, solar radiation, winds, and the quantity and quality of atmospheric deposition | |||||||||||||||
LNDRTR | Land treatment area | |||||||||||||||
UPGR | Upgradient of a well or spring. Only valid for use with "WELL" or "SPRING" (groundwater sites) | |||||||||||||||
DOWNGR | Downgradient of a well or spring. Only valid for use with "WELL" or "SPRING" (groundwater sites) | |||||||||||||||
RCRA | RCRA monitoring site | |||||||||||||||
CERCLA | CERCLA ("Superfund") monitoring site | |||||||||||||||
BASSAY | Bioassay site | |||||||||||||||
IMPDMT | Impoundment. Includes waste pits, treatment lagoons and settling and evaporation ponds | |||||||||||||||
LNDFL | Landfill | |||||||||||||||
INJECT | Site where liquid waste has been injected underground as a means of disposal | |||||||||||||||
NONPNT | Nonpoint source pollution. Includes eutrophication, acidification, thermal change, organic nutrients, sedimentation, and hydromodificaion | |||||||||||||||
DEVLMT | Development site. Includes construction | |||||||||||||||
MINE | Mine or site of mining activities. Includes reclaimed land areas and coal mining | |||||||||||||||
DISTR | Water supply distribution system | |||||||||||||||
BIO | Biological monitoring site (for BIOS Field Survey System) | |||||||||||||||
FISH | Plant or animal matter sampling site | |||||||||||||||
TISSUE | Sludge or sediment sampling site | |||||||||||||||
SOLIDS | Sludge or sediment sampling site | |||||||||||||||
SLUDGE | Sludge spreading site | |||||||||||||||
POLLUT | Site of pollution incident | |||||||||||||||
RANNEY | Ranney collector (usually associated with level 1 code "WELL") | |||||||||||||||
ONLOT | On-lot septic system | |||||||||||||||
ECOREG | Reference station where sampling is performed to characterize water quality at nonimpacted or least impacted sites in an ecoregion | |||||||||||||||
PLAYA | Shallow, small, ephemeral to permanent closed basin lake typically found in the high plains and deserts | |||||||||||||||
FLOOD | Water impacted by major flooding condition | |||||||||||||||
EMBAY | Land confined and physically protected marine waters with restricted openings to open coastal waters | |||||||||||||||
OPNSCT | Open maring waters bounded by 600 foot depth contour and shoreline | |||||||||||||||
ANPOOL | Anhialine pool, underground pools with subsurface connections to watertable and ocean | |||||||||||||||
SHRLN | Shoreline, samples collected at the edge of a waterbody | |||||||||||||||
VOLUN | Station contains data collected as part of volunteer monitoring efforts | |||||||||||||||
HOURLY | Station contains data collected hourly | |||||||||||||||
BEACH | Station located at the interface of the water and the beach | |||||||||||||||
BRIDGE | Station located on a bridge | |||||||||||||||
PIER | Station located on a pier | |||||||||||||||