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Description: <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1.5rem; font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;">The &quot;National Measured Conductivity Data - WQP&quot; view in the Freshwater Explorer is based on measured data obtained from the </font><a href="https://www.waterqualitydata.us/" style="color:rgb(0, 121, 193); text-decoration-line:none; font-family:inherit;" target="_blank"><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;">U.S. EPA Water Quality Portal (WQP)</font></a><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;"> data inventory - the nation's largest source for water quality monitoring data. Data were downloaded from the WQP website using the following query criteria: </font><br /></p><p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;"></p><ul><li><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;">Country - United States.</font></li><li><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;">Sample Media - Water. </font></li><li><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;">Characteristics - Conductivity, Specific Conductivity, Specific Conductance, Calculated/Measured Ratio.</font></li><li><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;">Date range - 1 January 2000 to 20 July 2021.</font></li></ul><p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;"></p><p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1.5rem; font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;">These water quality data records are provided by many federal, state and tribal organizations and other partners. As such, the U.S. EPA cannot ensure that the information is accurate, current or complete. Therefore, users should verify the data from the original sources before drawing site specific conclusions. Examples of errors found include negative specific conductivity (SC) values, units of measurements not consistent with SC measurements (e.g., NTU, volts, mg/l) and entries as mS/cm but reported as µS/cm. The U.S. EPA plans to update data and add new data; however, due to the large number of organizations involved, such an effort is beyond the scope of this story map. Users should verify the data from the original sources before drawing site specific conclusions.</font></p><div style="font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;"><br /></font></div><div style="font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0.0001pt; text-align:justify;"><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;">An inventory of the SC data affected by such uncertainties has been compiled and a thorough data revision process has been planned to contact the individual organizations that provided the data and to regularly up-date data. However, due to the large number of organizations involved, it is necessary that users of the National Conductivity Data assume there will be some inherent measuring and reporting error. </font></p><p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0.0001pt; text-align:justify;"><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;"><br /></font></p><p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;">The quality of the measured data was evaluated as follows.  An automated Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) protocol was developed using R-scripts to remove or identify potentially erroneous SC values (outliers) in WQP. The objective of the QA/QC protocol was to:</font></p><p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;"></p><ul><li><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;"><b><i>Remove SC values ≤ 0</i></b> (SC values cannot be negative).<br /></font></li><li><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;"><i><b>Remove SC values reported with units of measurements different from Siemens or mho</b> </i>- these were considered ambiguous (e.g., SC reported as nephelometric turbidity units, degrees etc.<span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">)</span>.<br /></font></li><li><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;"><b><i>Convert all relevant SC values to µS/cm</i></b> (e.g., values expressed in mS/cm were multiplied by 1000). This allows direct comparison among samples.<br /></font></li><li><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;"><b><i>Identify and flag (grey circles) SC values &lt; 10 µS/cm</i></b> - these SC values are uncertain and likely recorded incorrectly as µS/cm instead of mS/cm units.<br /></font></li><li><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;"><b><i>Identify and flag (grey circles) SC values &gt; 5000 µS/cm</i></b> - these SC values likely represent marine waters or are errors in reported units of measurements (data reported as mS/cm but likely measured as µS/cm). It should be noted, however, that some SC values &gt; 5000 µS/cm may have been correctly reported (e.g., brine waste outfalls, irrigation return water).</font></li></ul><p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0.0001pt; text-align:justify;"><font size="4" style="font-family:inherit;">The data set is updated from time to time but is always very large. The initial dataset in 2021 contained almost 13 million records downloaded from WQP. About 160 thousand SC measurements were removed (incorrect units or erroneous values). More than 2 million values, representing about 25%, were flagged as uncertain (gray color). The subsequent QA/QC dataset contained about 9 million samples from more than 200,000 locations. The R code developed to perform the QA/QC steps are available from <a href="https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=75d8596e313b430d9181feed4da8667b" style="color:rgb(0, 121, 193); text-decoration-line:none; font-family:inherit;" target="_blank">cormier.susan@epa.gov</a></font></p></div>

Copyright Text: Cormier, S. M., Wharton, C., and Olson, J.R.

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