Data

Inventory of Monitoring Programs

One of the goals of the Virginia Water Monitoring Council (VWMC) is to promote and facilitate the coordination of water monitoring programs in Virginia.  The VWMC has developed inventories of both surface and ground water monitoring programs in Virginia.  The inventories provide the geographic extent of the monitoring program, type of waterbody monitored, parameters monitored by the program, how the data are documented and used, plus contact information for the program. 

Search the Surface Water Inventory of monitoring programs in Virginia by geographic location (map) or by data parameters.

Note to GIS users: As part of ongoing efforts to upgrade the online GIS application, Virginia's DEQ has updated the geographic location map. Use of this new map is encouraged, as the previous version of the map is to be discontinued sometime in early 2010.

Search the Ground Water Inventory of monitoring programs in Virginia by geographic location (map) or by data parameters. 

You can add a water monitoring program in Virginia to the VWMC’s inventories or edit information about your program:

Add to Surface Water Inventory of monitoring programs in Virginia

Add to Ground Water Inventory of monitoring programs in Virginia

Online Data

The VWMC provides links to online sources of water data at the regional, statewide, and national levels.  These data can be used to help assess the conditions of Virginia’s waters.

Links to Online Water Data

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay (Programs & Projects; Restoration & Monitoring) – http://www.alliancechesbay.org/

Friends of the Shenandoah River – http://www.fosr.org/data/

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

National Weather Service - http://www.weather.gov

Climate – http://www.weather.gov/climate/

GIS Portal (includes Climate Atlas) – http://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/

Water – http://water.weather.gov/ahps/  

Monitoring and Data Index (precipitation, drought, soil moisture, snow cover, etc.) – http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/MD_index.shtml

U.S. Estuarine Bathymetric Data Sets – http://estuarinebathymetry.noaa.gov/

U.S. Drought Monitor – http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – STORET – http://www.epa.gov/storet/

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Virginia Water Science Center – Data Center (streamflow, ground water, water quality, precipitation) – http://va.water.usgs.gov/

Water Data for the Nation (surface water, ground water, water quality) – http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)

Water Quality Monitoring Data Retrieval Application – http://gisweb.deq.virginia.gov/monapp/mon_data_retrieval_app.html

Virginia Department of Health (VDH)

Beach Monitoring Data – http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/DEE/BeachMonitoring/data/

Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)

Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) in Chesapeake Bay and Delmarva Peninsula Coastal Bays – http://www.vims.edu/bio/sav/index.html

Virginia State Climatology Office – http://climate.virginia.edu/