2006 Summary Report on the Status of Oregon DEQ Laboratory Volunteer Program Data

Identification Information

Citation

Originator: Steve Hanson

Publish Date: January 2007

Online Link: http://www.deq.state.or.us/lab/wqm/docs/2006_Vol_Data_SumRpt.pdf

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Contact Information

Agency: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

Name: Steve Hanson

Job Position: Volunteer Monitoring Coordinator

Telephone: 503.693.5737

E-Mail Address: HANSON.Steve@deq.state.or.us

Description

Abstract: Organizations working with the Oregon DEQ Laboratory Volunteer Monitoring Program started collecting and submitting continuous temperature and basic grab water quality data to the DEQ almost ten years ago. The agreement with these partners requires their data should be loaded into the DEQ’s Laboratory Analytical Storage And Retrieval database (LASAR). All data in the LASAR database is publicly available and accessible for water quality investigations by DEQ staff and others. Volunteer groups submit their data to the DEQ Volunteer Monitoring Coordinator who is responsible for reviewing and reformatting the data, then shepherding it through internal data upload and review procedures before it finally becomes available in LASAR. Over the past year a large amount of Volunteer Program data has been successfully loaded into LASAR, thanks to improvements in DEQ’s data processing procedures and funding from Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) for staff to process the data. As of January 2007 nearly all the Volunteer Program data is either in LASAR or being processed to get into LASAR. The additional DEQ Volunteer Program staff person funded by OWEB will focus on completing the data back log as well as working with Volunteer Program partners to find datasets not yet submitted to the DEQ and load the data into LASAR. Meanwhile the Volunteer Coordinator will work on ways to increase the types of data processed and the efficiency of Volunteer Program data management while maintaining rigorous quality assurance procedures.

Purpose: Provide description of water quality data sets collected by DEQ Volunteer Program patner organizations and submitted to the DEQ for upload to the LASAR database http://deq12.deq.state.or.us/lasar2/default.aspx.

Time Period of Content: 1997 to 2007

Geographic Extent: statewide

Status: Final

Use Constraints: Data is continually being submitted and uploaded to the DEQ LASAR database.

Format: PDF format

Data Quality Information

Lineage-Source: The attached report describes work done by the DEQ Lab to address water quality datasets collected by watershed councils and others and submitted to the volunteer program for upload. Data summaries are based on the DEQ's data tracking procedures and maps are generated within the DEQ' LASARWeb application using the tabbed query and mapping utilities.

Data Information

No data information was supplied.

Entity and Attribute Information

Attributes Description: Field attribute information is available in the database table field descriptions.

Is a physical copy maintained for reference at Headquarters? Unknown