Baseline water quality of Minnesota's principal aquifers, part of the Ground Water Monitoring and Assessement Program
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Section 1: Overview
Originator:Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Title:
Baseline water quality of Minnesota's principal aquifers, part of the Ground Water Monitoring and Assessement Program
Abstract:
Geochemistry of ground water samples, collected by staff of Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)
The rocks and soils that are the foundation of our environment leave an imprint on the chemistry of our water and our lives. This chemical landscape reflects a combination of natural history and cumulative human impacts, and it influences biodiversity and human health. Geochemical mapping thus is needed to clarify elemental variations, and to support assessment of the natural and human-influenced factors that dictate these variations. The Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS) and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), therefore have assembled three geochemical data sets for soil and water as a basis for an atlas that will provide an overview of geochemical patterns, and a reference that will place more thorough environmental geochemical surveys into a context. Data contributed to the project were derived from soil, soil parent material, and well water samples analyzed following USGS, Geological Survey of Canada, and Environmental Protection Agency protocols, respectively. The soil data include stream sediments largely in the western part of the state, and the soil parent material data are from sites underlain by till. The well water samples were from multiple aquifers utilized for drinking water, at greatly varying depth and geology.
Purpose:
Samples collected as part of an ambient Ground Water Monitoring and Assessement (GWMAP) program conducted by the MPCA to study baseline water quality of ground water in Minnesota aquifers commonly used as domestic water supplies.
Time Period of Content Date:
Currentness Reference:
publication date
Progress:
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency:
None Planned
Spatial Extent of Data:
Much additional data and analysis is available from the GWMAP project. Access GWMAP reports and data from the Minnesota Pollution Control (MPCA) web site. Search for GWMAP.
Bounding Coordinates:
-97.054475
-90.038567
48.994767
43.485291
Place Keywords:
Theme Keywords:
geochemistry
Theme Keyword Thesaurus:
REQUIRED: Reference to a formally registered thesaurus or a similar authoritative source of theme keywords.
Access Constraints:
None
Use Constraints:
None
Contact Person Information:
Richard Lively,
Minnesota Geological Survey
,
Phone:
Email: lively@umn.edu
Browse Graphic:
None available
Associated Data Sets:
Section 2: Data Quality
Attribute Accuracy:
Logical Consistency:
Completeness:
Horizontal Positional Accuracy:
+- 30 m
Lineage:
Data acquired in Excel format from MPCA. Data reformated for plotting and plots created at MGS.
Section 3: Spatial Data Organization (not used in this metadata)
Section 4: Coordinate System
Horizontal Coordinate Scheme:
Universal Transverse Mercator
UTM Zone Number:
15
Horizontal Datum:
NAD83
Horizontal Units:
meters
Vertical Datum:
Vertical Units:
Depth Datum:
Depth Units:
Cell Width:
0.000100
Cell Height:
0.000100
Section 5: Attributes
Overview:
Detailed Citation:
Table Detail:
water_data_plots| Field Name | Valid Values | Definition | Definition Source |
|---|
| OBJECTID | - | Internal feature number. | ESRI |
| Shape | - | Feature geometry. | ESRI |
| WELL_ID | - | | |
| UTM_EAST | - | | |
| UTM_NORTH | - | | |
| COUNTY | - | | |
| AQUIFER | - | | |
| Depth | - | | |
| S_DATE | - | | |
| Aluminum | - | | |
| Antimony | - | | |
| Arsenic | - | | |
| Barium | - | | |
| Beryllium | - | | |
| Bismuth | - | | |
| Boron | - | | |
| Bromide | - | | |
| Cadmium | - | | |
| Calcium | - | | |
| Cesium | - | | |
| Chloride | - | | |
| Chromium | - | | |
| Cobalt | - | | |
| Copper | - | | |
| Iron | - | | |
| Lead | - | | |
| Lithium | - | | |
| Magnesium | - | | |
| Manganese | - | | |
| Mercury | - | | |
| Molybdenum | - | | |
| Nickel | - | | |
| pH | - | | |
| Phosphorus | - | | |
| Potassium | - | | |
| Rubidium | - | | |
| Selenium | - | | |
| Silicate | - | | |
| Silver | - | | |
| Sodium | - | | |
| Strontium | - | | |
| Sulfate | - | | |
| Sulfur | - | | |
| Thallium | - | | |
| Tin | - | | |
| Titanium | - | | |
| Total_phos | - | | |
| Vanadium | - | | |
| Zinc | - | | |
| Zirconium | - | | |
Section 6: Distribution
Publisher:
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Publication Date:
1998
Contact Person Information:
,
,
Phone:
Email:
Distributor's Data Set Identifier:
Downloadable Data
Distribution Liability:
Online Linkage:\\MGSP43\C\Working\usgs_AGrosz\Mcc_project\statewide_geochem.gdb
Section 7: Metadata Reference
Metadata Date:
08/19/2009
Contact Person Information:
Richard Lively,
Minnesota Geological Survey
Minnesota Geological Survey
St. Paul,
Minnesota
55114
Phone:
Email: lively@umn.edu
Metadata Standard Name:
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version:
FGDC-STD-001-1998