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Watershed Assessment Tracking
Environmental Results System (WATERS)
The EPA Office of Water is currently developing a data
system to integrate water quality monitoring data, state
reported water quality assessments, the status of total
maximum daily loads (TMDLs) in conjunction with any associated
legal obligations, and the environmental results associated
with Clean Water Act Section 319 funding. The new system,
the Watershed Assessment Tracking Environmental Results
System (WATERS), will integrate program databases using
the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) as the spatial framework.
Initially, this integration coupled with an EPA-internal
Web-based user interface will allow EPA Office of Water
managers and staff to ask and answer numerous programmatic
questions in support of assessment and monitoring activities.
Ultimately, information within WATERS is to be accessible
to the public from a Web-based geographic query and reporting
application.
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