About this Dataset

Great Smoky Mountains National Park 1993-2024 Parkwide Water Quality Survey Data From The GRSM WQ Project As Of 2025-04-22

This data package was created 2025-04-22 18:31:25 by NPSTORET and includes selected project, location, and result data.

Data contained in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park NPSTORET back-end file (GRSM_NPSTORET_BE_20250409.ACCDB) were filtered to include:

Organization:

GRSM: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Project:
GRSM_WQ: GRSM Parkwide Water Quality Survey
Station:
Include Trip QC And All Station Visit Results
Value Status:
Accepted or Certified (exported as Final) or Final

The data package is organized into five data tables:

Projects.csv - describes the purpose and background of the monitoring efforts
Locations.csv - documents the attributes of the monitoring locations/stations
Results.csv - contains the field measurements, observations, and/or lab analyses for each sample/event/data grouping
HUC.csv - enumerates the domain of allowed values for 8-digit and 12-digit hydrologic unit codes utilized by the Locations data table
Characteristics.csv - enumerates the domain of characteristics available in NPSTORET to identify what was sampled, measured or observed in Results

Period of record for filtered data is 1993-10-01 to 2024-11-19. This data package is a snapshot in time of one National Park Service project. The most current data for this project, which may be more or less extensive than that in this data package, can be found on the Water Quality Portal at:

https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=GRSM_WQ&mimeType=csv&zip=yes&dataProfile=biological&providers=STORET
Organization: Department of the Interior
Last updated: 2025-09-14T21:09:07.551743
Tags: acid-neutralizing-capacity, aluminum, ammonium, anions, calcium, cations, chloride, copper, depth, hydrogen-ions, hydrological-properties, iron, magnesium, manganese, nitrate, npstoret, ph, plant-properties, potassium, precipitation, silicon, snow, sodium, specific-conductivity, sulfate, water-properties, water-quality, water-temperature, weather, zinc

Tables

Characteristics

@usgov.doi_gov_great_smoky_mountains_national_park_1993_2024__52164847.characteristics

347.07 kB
8,335 rows
4 columns

CREATE TABLE characteristics (
  "equis_display_name" VARCHAR,
  "wqx_display_name" VARCHAR,
  "cas_num" VARCHAR,
  "srsidentifier" VARCHAR
);

Locations

@usgov.doi_gov_great_smoky_mountains_national_park_1993_2024__52164847.locations

85.55 kB
392 rows
40 columns

CREATE TABLE locations (
  "org_code" VARCHAR,
  "park_code" VARCHAR,
  "location_id" VARCHAR,
  "location_name" VARCHAR,
  "location_type" VARCHAR,
  "latitude" DOUBLE,
  "longitude" DOUBLE,
  "lat_lon_method" VARCHAR,
  "lat_lon_datum" VARCHAR,
  "source_map_scale_numeric" BIGINT,
  "lat_lon_accuracy" VARCHAR,
  "lat_lon_accuracy_unit" VARCHAR,
  "location_description" VARCHAR,
  "travel_directions" VARCHAR,
  "location_purpose" VARCHAR,
  "establishment_date" VARCHAR,
  "huc8_code" VARCHAR,
  "huc12_code" VARCHAR,
  "alternate_location_id" VARCHAR,
  "alternate_location_id_context" VARCHAR,
  "elevation" VARCHAR,
  "elevation_unit" VARCHAR,
  "elevation_method" VARCHAR,
  "elevation_datum" VARCHAR,
  "elevation_accuracy" VARCHAR,
  "elevation_accuracy_unit" VARCHAR,
  "country_code" VARCHAR,
  "state_code" VARCHAR,
  "county_code" VARCHAR,
  "drainage_area" VARCHAR,
  "drainage_area_unit" VARCHAR,
  "contributing_area" VARCHAR,
  "contributing_area_unit" VARCHAR,
  "well_id" VARCHAR,
  "well_type" VARCHAR,
  "aquifer_name" VARCHAR,
  "formation_type" VARCHAR,
  "well_hole_depth" VARCHAR,
  "well_hole_depth_unit" VARCHAR,
  "well_status" VARCHAR
);

Projects

@usgov.doi_gov_great_smoky_mountains_national_park_1993_2024__52164847.projects

15.47 kB
1 row
14 columns

CREATE TABLE projects (
  "org_code" VARCHAR,
  "project_id" VARCHAR,
  "project_name" VARCHAR,
  "project_description" VARCHAR,
  "project_start_date" TIMESTAMP,
  "project_duration" VARCHAR,
  "project_type" VARCHAR,
  "qapp_summary" VARCHAR,
  "qapp_approved_indicator" VARCHAR,
  "qapp_approval_agency_name" VARCHAR,
  "study_area_description" VARCHAR,
  "design_sampling_summary" VARCHAR,
  "measurement_quality_objectives" VARCHAR,
  "contact" VARCHAR
);

Results

@usgov.doi_gov_great_smoky_mountains_national_park_1993_2024__52164847.results

2.38 MB
178,351 rows
89 columns

CREATE TABLE results (
  "org_code" VARCHAR,
  "project_id" VARCHAR,
  "location_id" VARCHAR,
  "activity_id" VARCHAR,
  "activity_type" VARCHAR,
  "medium" VARCHAR,
  "medium_subdivision" VARCHAR,
  "assemblage_sampled_name" VARCHAR,
  "activity_start_date" TIMESTAMP,
  "activity_start_time" VARCHAR,
  "activity_start_time_zone" VARCHAR,
  "activity_end_date" VARCHAR,
  "activity_end_time" VARCHAR,
  "activity_end_time_zone" VARCHAR,
  "activity_relative_depth" VARCHAR,
  "activity_depth" VARCHAR,
  "activity_depth_unit" VARCHAR,
  "activity_upper_depth" VARCHAR,
  "activity_lower_depth" VARCHAR,
  "activity_sampler" VARCHAR,
  "custody_id" VARCHAR,
  "station_visit_comment" VARCHAR,
  "activity_comment" VARCHAR,
  "collection_method_id" VARCHAR,
  "collection_equipment_name" VARCHAR,
  "collection_equipment_description" VARCHAR,
  "container_type" VARCHAR,
  "container_color" VARCHAR,
  "container_size" VARCHAR,
  "container_size_unit" VARCHAR,
  "preparation_method_id" VARCHAR,
  "chemical_preservative" VARCHAR,
  "thermal_preservative" VARCHAR,
  "transport_storage_description" VARCHAR,
  "activity_group_id" VARCHAR,
  "activity_group_name" VARCHAR,
  "activity_group_type" VARCHAR,
  "sampling_component_name" VARCHAR,
  "sampling_component_place_in_series" VARCHAR,
  "characteristic_name" VARCHAR,
  "method_speciation" VARCHAR,
  "filtered_fraction" VARCHAR,
  "result_detection_condition" VARCHAR,
  "result_text" VARCHAR,
  "result_unit" VARCHAR,
  "result_qualifier" VARCHAR,
  "result_status" VARCHAR,
  "result_type" VARCHAR,
  "result_comment" VARCHAR,
  "method_detection_limit" VARCHAR,
  "lower_quantification_limit" VARCHAR,
  "upper_quantification_limit" VARCHAR,
  "limit_comment" VARCHAR,
  "temperature_basis" VARCHAR,
  "statistical_basis" VARCHAR,
  "time_basis" VARCHAR,
  "weight_basis" VARCHAR,
  "particle_size_basis" VARCHAR,
  "precision" VARCHAR,
  "bias" VARCHAR,
  "confidence_interval" VARCHAR,
  "upper_confidence_limit" VARCHAR,
  "lower_confidence_limit" VARCHAR,
  "result_depth_height_measure" VARCHAR,
  "result_depth_height_measure_unit" VARCHAR,
  "analytical_method_id" VARCHAR,
  "analytical_method_id_context" VARCHAR,
  "lab_id" VARCHAR,
  "lab_remark_code" VARCHAR,
  "analysis_start_date" TIMESTAMP,
  "analysis_start_time" VARCHAR,
  "analysis_start_time_zone" VARCHAR,
  "lab_accreditation_indicator" VARCHAR,
  "lab_sample_preparation_id" VARCHAR,
  "dilution_factor" VARCHAR,
  "num_of_replicates" VARCHAR,
  "data_logger_line_name" VARCHAR,
  "biological_intent" VARCHAR,
  "biological_individual_id" VARCHAR,
  "subject_taxon" VARCHAR,
  "unidentified_species_id" VARCHAR,
  "tissue_anatomy" VARCHAR,
  "group_summary_count_or_weight" VARCHAR,
  "group_summary_count_or_weight_unit" VARCHAR,
  "frequency_class_descriptor" VARCHAR,
  "frequency_class_bounds_unit" VARCHAR,
  "frequency_class_lower_bound" VARCHAR,
  "frequency_class_upper_bound" VARCHAR,
  "lab_reported_result" VARCHAR
);