# Presentation: 079966

## Montana DEQ and Region 8 EPA

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- A Joint Project for Effective Utilization of STORET

## By:  Deborah DorlandMontana DEQHelena, MTphone:  (406) 444-2407email:  ddorland@state.mt.us

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- By:  Deborah DorlandMontana DEQHelena, MTphone:  (406) 444-2407email:  ddorland@state.mt.us

## Project DevelopmentConsiderations

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- Project DevelopmentConsiderations

- Limited resource
- Cycle of data management
- Sustainability

## Task Based Project Components

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- Task Based Project Components

- Data flow within the agency
- Migrate chemistry data backlog
- Migrate biological data backlog
- Web enabled SIM pilot project
- Requirements analysis for information management

## Requirements Analysis

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- Determine functional requirements
- Recommendation for platform
- Explore options for data analysis
- Survey of staff needs
- Oral interviews for key topics
- Summary report developed by MT DEQ, EPA region 8 and Research Triangle Institute

## Task Based Project Components

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- Task Based Project Components

- Data flow within the agency
- Migrate chemistry data backlog
- Migrate biological data backlog
- Web enabled SIM pilot project
- Requirements analysis for information management

## Enhance User Acceptance

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- Increase data quantity
- Enhance data quality
- Reduce turnaround time from data collection to STORET warehouse

## Data Backlog for Migration

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- Chemistry data
- Biological data (taxon abundance)
- Historic data from special projects

## Evaluate Data Flow

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- Efficiency
- Streamline quality control activities

## Slide 10

## External Data Flow

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## Strategy for 319 Project Data and Other External Data Sources

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- Strategy for 319 Project Data and Other External Data Sources

- Standardize format for electonic data deliverables
- Incorporate into contract requirements
- Guidance for data formats
- Provide access to import data directly to STORET through web-enabled SIM

## Getting to the Complete SIM Deliverable

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- Many data providers manage only a subset of metadata required for STORET
- Field monitors create stations and take field measurements
- Laboratories analyze samples and generate results
- Planning staff or project administrators develop  project details
- Data provider must construct the complete data deliverable

## Standardize LIMS EDD

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- Data from multiple labs in variable formats
- State agency labs
- University labs
- Commercial Labs
- 319 projects use various approaches
- RFP for consistent STORET deliverables

## Training and Technical Support

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- Workshops
- Telephone / email
- Volunteer training
- Contracted support?

## Support

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- General guidance
- SIM templates (spreadsheets)
- Lists of acceptable values for STORET

## Web-enabled SIM

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- Hosted by Gold Systems

## Upload text file

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- Select import configuration
- Import data to STORET

## Scope and Scalability

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## Web SIM Pilot Project

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## McCone Conservation District Water Quality Monitoring

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## Acknowledgements:

- Tom Patton
- And
- Luke Buckley
- Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology

## Acknowledgements:

- Diane Williams
- Dave Stasney
- Will McDowell
- And
- John Babcock
- Tri-State Water Quality Council

## Acknowledgements:

- Jeanne Rae Kirkegard
- McCone Conservation District
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- Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC)