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EPA Upgrades ECHO Database to Add Water Quality Indicators Tool Enhancing
Access to Water Quality Data Including Contributors to Pollution
New mapping tool allows users to analyze water data and identify pollution
problems in their communities including the potential polluters
WASHINGTON – Today, Sept. 18, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
released the Water Quality Indicators (WQI) tool, the first EPA interface that
allows users to compare millions of data records from water monitoring
stations. Facilitated by a mapping tool, the WQI makes it easy to explore
nutrient and pathogen data and identify the potential sources that are
contributing to water quality problems.
The WQI allows users to see pollutant level trends from nearby monitoring
stations and compare to other stations across the country. The tool provides
data on facilities including compliance records and as well as environmental
justice indicators gathered through EJScreen, EPA’s environmental justice
screening and mapping tool.
“Every community in the United States deserves healthy rivers and streams.
Whenever that is not the case, EPA wants communities to have access to
information about water pollution and possible sources of any unsafe
conditions,” said Assistant Administrator David M. Uhlmann for EPA’s
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. “EPA’s new Water Quality
Indicators Tool will help communities understand local nutrient and pathogen
pollution and help communities develop solutions to water pollution
challenges.”
EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) works with state
regulatory partners to enforce permit limits for the Clean Water Act. The WQI
tool is one of several tools included in OECA’s Enforcement and Compliance
History Online (ECHO) web site. ECHO users can also view inspection,
violation, and enforcement information for permitted dischargers.
The agency is developing a short video tutorial to help users get started with
the WQI tool. The tutorial will be made available on the ECHO Video Tutorials
page once it is completed.
Learn more about EPA’s work to address nutrient pollution. Nutrient
pollution occurs when excess nitrogen and phosphorus from agriculture, storm
and wastewater facilities, use of fossil fuels, and daily domestic activities
enter our waterways impacting human and environmental health and our economy.
Learn more about EPA’s work to protect the quality of recreational water
bodies from pollution containing bacteria, viruses, and microorganisms that
can threaten your health.
EPA welcomes the public’s help in protecting our nation’s environment.
EPA’s Report an Environmental Violation web page provides a way for you to
report suspected environmental violations or potentially harmful environmental
activities in your community or workplace.
EPA will provide a webinar to demonstrate the webinar training WQI tool on
Tuesday Oct. 1, 2024, from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST. Register for the webinar at
the WQI Tool – Public Training page.
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