Metadata: MCES Surface Water Monitoring Sites

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MCES Surface Water Monitoring Sites

This page last updated: 02/15/2011
Metadata created using Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines

Metadata Summary

Originator	Metropolitan Council
Abstract	This layer contains point locations for each of the Metropolitan Council's lake, stream, and river monitoring sites. Some of these sites are outside the seven county metro area. The ''wqmon'' shape file is clipped to the metro area. The ''mn_wqmon'' shape file includes those points outside the metro area.
Browse Graphic	View a sample of the data.
Time Period of Content Date	08/31/2005
Currentness Reference	This dataset shows all monitoring sites, historical and active, as of the Time Period of Content date.
Access Constraints	None
Use Constraints	None
Distributor Organization	Metropolitan Council
Ordering Instructions	This dataset is distributed on the internet by clicking below after 'Online Linkage'. Doing so will tell your browser to download a 'ZIP' file which will contain the following: - ArcView shape files - metadata for the dataset (.htm) - NOTICE.RTF, an important notice about this dataset that can be read by any word processing software. Additionally, this dataset is available for direct use via one or more map services. More information about what a web mapping service is can be found at http://www.datafinder.org/services/ The specific map service and layer name for this dataset can be found by clicking the blue or green boxes under the map service column of the DataFinder Catalog at http://www.datafinder.org/catalog/ .
Distribution Liability	NOTICE: The Geographic Information System (GIS) Data to which this notice is attached are made available pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13). THE GIS DATA ARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY AS TO THEIR PERFORMANCE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The GIS Data were developed by the Metropolitan Council for its own internal business purposes. The Metropolitan Council does not represent or warrant that the GIS Data or the data documentation are error-free, complete, current, or accurate. You are responsible for any consequences resulting from your use of the GIS Data or your reliance on the GIS Data. You should consult the data documentation for this particular GIS Data to determine the limitations of the GIS Data and the precision with which the GIS Data may depict distance, direction, location, or other geographic features. If you transmit or provide the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user, it is recommended that the GIS Data include a copy of this disclaimer and this metadata.
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Full Metadata


Section 1	Identification Information		Top of page
Originator	Metropolitan Council
Title	MCES Surface Water Monitoring Sites
Abstract	This layer contains point locations for each of the Metropolitan Council's lake, stream, and river monitoring sites. Some of these sites are outside the seven county metro area. The ''wqmon'' shape file is clipped to the metro area. The ''mn_wqmon'' shape file includes those points outside the metro area.
Purpose	To show the general location of monitoring sites for streams, rivers, and lakes.
Time Period of Content Date	08/31/2005
Currentness Reference	This dataset shows all monitoring sites, historical and active, as of the Time Period of Content date.
Progress	Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency	As needed
Spatial Extent of Data	East-central Minnesota. Coverage is primarily centered on Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, but the coverage also includes MCES monitoring sites in the Minnesota River Watershed near Mankato and sites along the Mississippi River down to Lake Pepin.
Bounding Coordinates	-94.22 -92.10 45.42 43.99
Place Keywords	Minnesota, Twin Cities, Mankato, Lake City, Lake Pepin, Mississippi River, Minnesota River, St. Croix River, Anoka County, Carver County, Dakota County, Hennepin County, Ramsey County, Scott County, Washington County
Theme Keywords	surface water, water quality, water monitoring, monitoring sites, stream flow monitoring, gaging stations, monitoring points, lakes, rivers, water resources
Theme Keyword Thesaurus	None
Access Constraints	None
Use Constraints	None
Contact Person Information	Terrie Odea, Environmental Analyst Metropolitan Council 390 Robert Street North St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-1805 Phone: 651-602-1765 FAX: 651-602-1130 E-mail: terrie.odea@metc.state.mn.us
Browse Graphic	View a sample of the data.
Browse Graphic File Description	Sample map showing the surface water monitoring site layer.
Associated Data Sets

Section 2	Data Quality Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Attribute Accuracy
Logical Consistency	The dataset is topologically 'clean'.
Completeness	All Metropolitan Council lake, stream, and river monitoring sites are included as of 8/31/05. The ''MCESSurfaceWaterMonitoringSites'' shape file is clipped to the metro area. The ''mn_wqmon'' shape file includes those points outside the metro area.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy	The positional accuracy of the dataset has not been tested under the National Standards for Spatial Data Accuracy. The positional accuracy of the dataset is estimated to be generally within 3-5 meters for rivers and streams and within 15 meters for lakes.
Vertical Positional Accuracy	NA
Lineage	Original Publication: 10/10/00 The monitoring site locations for rivers and streams were determined from GPS receiver with a horizontal positional accuracy of 3-5 meters. Lake monitoring sites were derived in part from GPS coordinates from a GPS receiver with a horizontal positional accuracy of 15m. Other lakes monitoring site locations were determined by visual inspection of lake maps. The position of the GPS coordinates were visually compared to the Metropolitan Council's hydro layer and other reference themes such as the MNDOT roads layer. The position of the sites were manually adjusted as needed to maintain appropriate relationships to the reference themes. Updated: 10/25/00 The 10/11/00 version of this dataset was updated on 10/25/00 to correct a few problems and to add four attribute fields (Site_name, X_coord, Y_coord, and Map_code1). Three features were deemed redundant and removed. Riley Creek at Hwy 169, Minnesota River at Jordan, and Mississippi River at Diamond Bluff all had duplicate features. The duplicate features were a result of the sites being used by different monitoring programs within the Council. Upon review, it was deemed that the monitoring sites of these different programs were really using the same location. Two sites had table records, but no spatial feature; Bassett Creek and the Prior Lake/Dean's Lake Outlet. These were sites were in the planning stage when the wqmon layer was first created. Subsequently, the Prior Lake/Dean's Lake Outlet was never built, so that record was deleted. The Bassett Creek site became operational in late summer of 2000 and a point feature was added for this site. In addition, sites that previously were assigned a Site_id = LM were recoded as Site_id = UM to be consitent with the Council's water quality monitoring database. A new site was added for the Rum River at river mile 0.7. This is the new location for watershed outlet monitoring that was formerly at river mile 0.5. The Sand Creek river mile was corrected. Several of the site descriptions were adjusted to reflect the new data structure (Site_name and Site_desc). Updated: 10/27/00 Eleven lake sites were added to the file. The two pairs of redundant site names for Mississippi River monitoring sites were fixed. Mississippi River at 822.6 was deleted (refer to river mile 821.8 instead). The site name for Mississippi River at 815.3 was changed to 'Mississippi River at Lock and Dam No. 2'. Updated: 03/19/02 Several river sites that were in the MCES water quality database, but were not previously included in this dataset were added. New lake sites were added. A new boolean field was added to indicate the sites at which continuously recorded monitoring data has been collected. Updated: 07/30/03 30 Lakes sites were added. Most of these were locations that hadn't been monitored previously. A few were sites that had been monitored, but just hadn't been added to this GIS dataset. One new stream site has been added to the Vermillion River. This site is a temporary relocation, due to bridge construction at the Biscayne Ave monitoring site. Updated: 04/28/04 Minor update with 9 new lakes sites and 3 new stream sites added. Updated 8/31/05 Minor update with 11 new lake sites added.
Source Scale Denominator

Section 3	Spatial Data Organization Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Native Data Set Environment	ArcView Version 9x
Geographic Reference for Tabular Data	None
Spatial Object Type	Point
Vendor Specific Object Types	points
Tiling Scheme	One layer for entire region.

Section 4	Spatial Reference Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Horizontal Coordinate Scheme	UTM
Ellipsoid	GRS80
Horizontal Datum	NAD83
Horizontal Units	Meters
Distance Resolution
UTM Zone Number	15

Section 5	Entity and Attribute Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page

Entity and Attribute Overview

SITE_ID:    A short code for the water body within which the monitoring point  
            occurs. A short character code is used for rivers and streams.  The  
            eight digit, DNR protected waters inventory number is used for lake  
            basins. 
  
SITE_NAME:  A short name for the monitoring site. 
  
SITE_DESCR: A longer description of the monitoring site. 
  
WATERBODY:  The name of the water body being monitored. 
  
TYPE:       The type of water body (e.g. river, lake, stream). Only the  
            mainstem rivers (Minnesota, Mississippi, and St. Croix) are coded  
            as rivers all other tributaries are coded as stream.  Lakes that  
            occur on the mainstem tributaries are coded as river (e.g. Lake  
            Pepin). 
  
RIV_MILE:   The river mile recorded to the tenth of a mile that is closest to  
            the monitoring point.  Not applied for lake monitoring sites.   
            River miles are measured starting at the mouth of the river.  The  
            US Army Corp river mile system is used for the mainstem rivers.   
            For tributaries, river mile is measured from USGS 1:24K quad maps. 
  
POINT_ID:   A sequentially assigned integer that is used to define unique  
            monitoring sites for lakes that have multiple monitoring sites  
            within a single basin. 
  
X_COORD:    The x-coordinate of the monitoring site in UTM, zone 15, NAD 83,  
            meters recorded to two decimal places. 
  
Y_COORD:    The y-coordinate of the monitoring site in UTM, zone 15, NAD 83,  
            meters recorded to two decimal places. 
  
MAP_CODE1:  A short unique code for each monitoring point.  For rivers, this is  
            a combination of Site_id and Riv_mile without the decimal and with  
            leading zeros. For lakes, this is a combination of the Site_id and  
            Point_id with leading zeros. 
  
CONTINUOUS: A boolean field (Y/N) indicating whether the station for the 
            monitoring point includes continuous data collected using a 
            datalogger. Typically this data includes flow collected at 15  
            minute intervals; however, other variables may be collected (e.g.  
            Temperature, Conductivity, Dissolved Oxygen) and other time  
            intervals may be used. 
ASSET_ID:   WAM asset ID information 
MAINTAIN:   Business unit that maintains the monitoring site

Entity and Attribute Detailed Citation

Section 6	Distribution Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Publisher	Metropolitan Council
Publication Date	Periodically revised
Contact Person Information	Mark Kotz GIS Database Administrator Metropolitan Council 390 Robert Street North St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-1805 Phone: 651-602-1644 FAX: 651-602-1674 E-mail: mark.kotz@metc.state.mn.us
Distributor's Data Set Identifier	MCESSurfaceWaterMonitoringSites
Transfer Format Name	ArcView Shape files
Transfer Format Version Number	ArcView: 9x
Transfer Size	Less than 1 MB for zip file.
Ordering Instructions	This dataset is distributed on the internet by clicking below after 'Online Linkage'. Doing so will tell your browser to download a 'ZIP' file which will contain the following: - ArcView shape files - metadata for the dataset (.htm) - NOTICE.RTF, an important notice about this dataset that can be read by any word processing software. Additionally, this dataset is available for direct use via one or more map services. More information about what a web mapping service is can be found at http://www.datafinder.org/services/ The specific map service and layer name for this dataset can be found by clicking the blue or green boxes under the map service column of the DataFinder Catalog at http://www.datafinder.org/catalog/ .
Distribution Liability	NOTICE: The Geographic Information System (GIS) Data to which this notice is attached are made available pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13). THE GIS DATA ARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY AS TO THEIR PERFORMANCE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The GIS Data were developed by the Metropolitan Council for its own internal business purposes. The Metropolitan Council does not represent or warrant that the GIS Data or the data documentation are error-free, complete, current, or accurate. You are responsible for any consequences resulting from your use of the GIS Data or your reliance on the GIS Data. You should consult the data documentation for this particular GIS Data to determine the limitations of the GIS Data and the precision with which the GIS Data may depict distance, direction, location, or other geographic features. If you transmit or provide the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user, it is recommended that the GIS Data include a copy of this disclaimer and this metadata.
Online Linkage	I AGREE to the notice in "Distribution Liability" above. Clicking to agree will begin the download process (See Ordering Instructions above for details.)

Section 7	Metadata Reference Information	Top of full metadata	Top of page
Metadata Date	02/15/2011
Contact Person Information	Terrie Odea, Environmental Analyst Metropolitan Council 390 Robert Street North St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-1805 Phone: 651-602-1765 FAX: 651-602-1130 E-mail: terrie.odea@metc.state.mn.us
Metadata Standard Name	Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines
Metadata Standard Version	1.2
Metadata Standard Online Linkage	http://www.gis.state.mn.us/stds/metadata.htm

This page last updated: 02/15/2011