Legacy STORET Level 5
Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful as a reference or resource.
This web site provides query access to over 200 million monitoring records originally reported to EPA via the Legacy STORET System.
Name | Description |
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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 |