Surface Water Quality And Fish Monitoring Data

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is now supporting the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Water Quality Exchange site. You can find ADEQ’s water quality monitoring data by going to EPA’s STORET Site at www.epa.gov/storet/dbtop.html.

You can use this Google Earth mashup to locate a monitoring station of interest. If you click on the station location, you will find a link to both United States Geological Survey data for flow (if available) and EPA’s web site for water quality data (if available). The link provided here is updated as the water quality monitoring station database is updated. Please return to this site to upload the latest version periodically.

If you want to find out more about a watershed in which you are interested. Use this Google Earth mashup to find your watershed. Click on the information point to link to EPA’s Surf Your Watershed web site to find additional information about the watershed. This file is static. ADEQ will not renew it frequently. It is a large file (18 MB).

Mercury in Fish Data

If you are looking for mercury data in fish, please use the Google Earth mashups below to find the data you seek. Again, these links will be updated as collections are completed and data is updated. Please check back frequently to refresh your dataset.

• All data collected for mercury in fish since the early 1990’s (Excel)
• All data collected for mercury in fish since the early 1990’s
• Data in largemouth bass where the sample size was greater than 1 fish
• Data collected since 2005

NOTE: You will need Google Earth to use the above tools. If you need to download Google Earth, please visit the web site http://earth.google.com/ to download the current program.

Please E-mail adp@adeq.state.ar.us to let us know how you like these tools and give us any feedback on how we could modify them to be more helpful to you.