Ambient Water Quality
Profiles and Progress
Click the map to find contact information for Exchange Network Partners and to see Partners' progress toward implementing data exchanges on the Network.
Assessment, TMDL Tracking And ImplementatioN System – ATTAINS
The Assessment, TMDL Tracking And ImplementatioN System (ATTAINS) data exchange allows EN Partners to submit 303(d)/305(b) water quality data, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) information, and support program goals aligned with both submissions processes. A goal of the ATTAINS data exchange is to move the Integrated Reporting process to a paperless process using Exchange Network technology. The ATTAINS …View Data Exchange
Beach Monitoring
Under the BEACH Act (Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act), grant recipients are required to submit beach monitoring data to U.S. EPA. The Beach Monitoring data exchange allows for the reporting of beach monitoring, station location, and sample and result data to EPA’s STORET Data Warehouse through the Water Quality Exchange (WQX). To report notification data, see …View Data Exchange
Beach Notification
Under the BEACH Act (Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act), grant recipients are required to submit beach notification data to EPA. The Beach Notification data exchange supports the reporting of beach meta data, contact information, and beach advisory and closing data. The Flow Implementation Guide provides a high-level overview of the data flow. To report monitoring data, see the …View Data Exchange
Chesapeake Bay Non-Point Source Best Management Practices
The U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) Non-Point Source Best Management Practices (NPS BMP) Data Exchange allows Chesapeake Bay States to submit and solicit NPS BMP data to and from CBPO. Implementation Resources are available here.
Clean Water Act Integrated Reporting, Water Quality Assessment, Impaired Waters – OWIR
The OWIR-ATT data flow has been deprecated and replaced by the ATTAINS data flow. Please visit the ATTAINS Data Exchange page for information about that data flow. The OWIR data exchange allowed Partners to submit Integrated Reporting [303(d)/305(b)] water quality assessment data. This data set is taken from the Partner’s assessment data management system and submitted through its …View Data Exchange
Ocean Data Partnership Exchange – ODPX
The Northeast and Coastal Ocean Data Partnership (NeCODP) developed the Ocean Data Partnership Exchange (ODPX) to accommodate a variety of non-regulatory environmental monitoring data types. The Partnership is composed of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceanography, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Northeast Fisheries Science Center, …View Data Exchange
Pacific Northwest Water Quality Exchange
The states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska developed the Pacific Northwest Water Quality Data Exchange to aggregate and access a comprehensive source of high-quality water data in the Pacific Northwest. Working together, the states developed XML schema to share water quality data. Each state then established a secure Network Node and began publishing the data in XML. Simple query …View Data Exchange
Water Quality Data Exchange – WQDE
This exchange has been coordinated by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Office of Information Resources Management and Water Monitoring and Standards Unit. The WQDE builds on the Water Quality eXchange (WQX) and features an enhanced WQX schema and web services for submitting project descriptions, images, and data. New Jersey developed robust tools for retrieving this information …View Data Exchange
Water Quality Exchange – WQX
**IMPORTANT UPDATE April 13, 2020: Two new versions of the WQX data flow (v2.2 and v3.0) are now available and in production. EPA will continue to support existing versions of the WQX data flow. WQX Version 2.2 is 100% backwards compatible with v2.1 and provides expanded data element lengths for various key description text type elements. See the …View Data Exchange