Pacific Northwest Water Quality Data Exchange

A National Environmental Information Exchange Network Project

with grant support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Partners

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation

Idaho Department of Environmental Quality

Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

Washington Department of Ecology

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 10

Data Sharing

Do you have data that you’d like to make available to the Pacific NW Water Quality Data Exchange? Please contact a representative near you to find out how.

Background

Federal, state, local, and tribal entities in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, and Alaska) face an unprecedented need to share water quality data. To help meet this need, USEPA has funded a project as part of a new national effort (the "Network") to improve access to environmental information. See the Project Proposal (Microsoft Word doc) for details including a high-level allocation of the $1 million project budget.

Project Coordination/Collaboration

Project Steering Board

Includes representatives of the five partners; see contact list.
Plans to meet three to four times per year during project and conduct conference calls in the interim; see meeting schedule, agendas, and summaries.

Consortium

Includes selected tribal, local/regional, state, and federal entities.

Data Exchange Template(s) and Directory Services Work Group

Subgroup of Consortium members.
10-12 members.

Work Products

See the Exchange Network Registry for currently supported versions of Pacific Northwest Water Quality Data Exchange templates, schema, and associated flow configuration documentation: