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whatWQPdata

Data Available from Water Quality Portal

Description

Returns a list of sites from the Water Quality Portal web service. This function gets the data from: https://www.waterqualitydata.us. Arguments to the function should be based on https://www.waterqualitydata.us/webservices_documentation. The information returned from this function describes the available data at the WQP sites, and some metadata on the sites themselves.

Usage

whatWQPdata(..., saveFile = tempfile())

Arguments

`...`	see https://www.waterqualitydata.us/webservices_documentation for a complete list of options. A list of arguments can also be supplied.
`saveFile`	path to save the incoming geojson output.

Value

A data frame with at least the following columns:

Name	Type	Description
"type_a"	character	Geojson type
"features.type"	character	Geojson feature type
"type1"	character	Geojson spatial type
"coordinates"	list	List of longitude/latitude
"ProviderName"	character	The name of the database that provided the data to the Water Qaulity portal (E.G. STORET, NWIS, STEWARDS)
"OrganizationIdentifier"	character	A designator used to uniquely identify a unique business establishment within a context.
"OrganizationFormalName"	character	The legal designator (i.e. formal name) of an organization.
"MonitoringLocationIdentifier"	character	A designator used to describe the unique name, number, or code assigned to identify the monitoring location.
"MonitoringLocationName"	character	The designator specified by the sampling organization for the site at which sampling or other activities are conducted.
"MonitoringLocationTypeName"	character	The descriptive name for a type of monitoring location.
"ResolvedMonitoringLocationTypeName"	character
"HUCEightDigitCode"	character	The 8 digit federal code used to identify the hydrologic unit of the monitoring location to the cataloging unit level of precision.
"siteUrl"	character	URL to site information
"activityCount"	numeric
"resultCount"	numeric
"StateName"	character	State name
"CountyName"	character	County name

Examples

site1 <- whatWQPdata(siteid="USGS-01594440")

type <- "Stream"
sites <- whatWQPdata(countycode="US:55:025",siteType=type)

lakeSites <- whatWQPdata(siteType = "Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment", statecode = "US:55")

dataRetrieval

Retrieval Functions for USGS and EPA Hydrologic and Water Quality Data

v2.7.10

CC0

Authors

Laura DeCicco [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3915-9487>), Robert Hirsch [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4534-075X>), David Lorenz [aut], Jordan Read [ctb], Jordan Walker [ctb], Lindsay Carr [ctb], David Watkins [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7544-0700>), David Blodgett [ctb], Mike Johnson [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5288-8350>)

Initial release