Nationwide, over 300 million data values are available for over one million surface and groundwater sites. You are responsible for uploading your own water quality data. Essentially, you will set up how the parameters are organized, so you can order your data to go to the right places in the data tables.
Batch data is entered as comma separated text files.
Periodically, the agency will upload their data to the data center in North Carolina. Each time an agency uploads new data to the data center, the new data completely replaces the agency s old data at the data center . The computer in NC is not intended to serve as a repository whatsoever. Therefore, each agency must maintain its own historic data. Here they are treated as synonyms for new characteristic names.