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CWQMC Projects & Services

Colorado Data Sharing Network (CDSN)

Mentoring

Presentations

Brochures

Colorado Data Sharing Network Project

Project Description

The Colorado Data Sharing Network was created by the Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council. This project receives funding from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) Colorado Water Quality Control Division (WQCD) through an EPA Section 319 nonpoint source (NPS) grant and from financial and in-kind contributions to the Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council. Additional support is provided by:

CDSN Project Objectives

To establish a water quality data management system that meets the needs of Colorado’s NPS Grant Program and local data providers (manages input, output and simple manipulations for monitoring results). This is the AWQMS database. Online at the Colorado Data Sharing Newtork web site: http://www.coloradowaterdata.org/awqmsportal.html

Support and maintain web-based map to compliment the data management system that shares monitoring locations and water data. This is the Google-map utility. Online at the Colorado Data Sharing Network web site: http://www.coloradowaterdata.org/webmap.html

Establish a directory to share contact information of water data users and generators throughout the state, monitoring objectives, what is being monitored and how. This objective is being accomplished through the development of the "Colorado Water Data User/Generator Directory".

To actively nurture use of the system state-wide.

To implement a sustainable strategy for future support and use.

CDSN Project Products

Colorado Data Sharing Network web site: www.ColoradoWaterData.org

AWQMS Database & supporting materials and media Go

Google-map utility Go

Data SWAPS & trainings Go

Data Calls in coordination with Colorado Department of Public Health (CDPHE) Go

Colorado Water Data User/Generator Directory Go

Mentoring - Watershed Project Design & Quality Assurance Assistance; Data Formatting & Upload Assistance (by Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council) Go

The CDSN project has completed a multi-year transition from the decommissioned STORET database to a WQX compatible database. We have a new, more powerful, and increasingly user-friendly toolkit to submit and retrieve data from the CDSN project database. This new database and tool kit is called AWQMS (Ambient Water Quality Monitoring System). We have a wish-list of enhancements we are looking for funding to accomplish.

CDSN offers trainings, tutoring, webinars, and custom data formatting and upload/download training. The CWQMC also offers mentoring through the Mentoring Committee. Please contact the Project Coordinators to learn about these opportunities and to explore uploading your data into the database. The database has the ability to store water quality, biological, and stream habitat data.

Get Involved in CWQMC and the CDSN Project

For more information about the benefits () of being an active member of CWQMC and participanting in the Colorado Data Sharing Network project, please use this link: About Us > Benefits

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