Description:
Annual raw data for stations in the Citizen Monitoring Program, used to generate graphs on PCA website.
Search parameters:
One or more of the following search parameters need to be specified in order to retrieve data:
| stationId |
Yes |
Water quality monitoring station ID
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Additional parameters:
The following, optional, parameters may be specified:
| format |
The desired return format. Valid formats are: {json, jsonp, text, csv, xls, ods, and tab}. The default is json. |
| callback |
The JSONP callback function name (Note that format needs to be "jsonp"). |
| fields |
The comma-separated-list of the field names to return from the query. The default is to return all available fields. |
| nullValue |
Value to substitute in place of null values. The default is to return null values as "null" (per JSON.org). |
| limit |
The number of records to limit the result set to. Behaves like the SQL standard LIMIT clause. |
| offset |
Used with Limit-- the record number to start retrieving from. Behaves like the SQL standard OFFSET clause. |
Result Set Definitions:
| monitoringYear |
The year the monitoring took place. |
| observationDate |
The date of the observation. |
| physicalAppearance |
The physical appearance score. |
| recSuitabilityScore |
The recreational suitability score |
| secchi |
Depth at which the Secchi disk can be seen. |
| secchiUnit |
The unit of length measurement for the Secchi data. Meters for lakes, centimeters for streams. |
| stationId |
Water quality monitoring station ID |
| stationType |
Type of station. 'River/Stream' or 'Lake Station' or 'Lake'. |
| transparencyRatingByColor |
Color used on graph to represent a color representing Secchi transparency, from poor to excellent. Key: Red=poor, yellow=fair, green=good, light blue=very good, dark blue= excellent. |
| tubeType |
STUBE=Secchi tube or TTUBE=T-tube. All values after 2012 will be STUBE. |
| wid |
Unique water unit ID. |
Example Queries: