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Legacy STORET Level 5
Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful as a reference or resource.
This web site provides query access to over 200 million monitoring records originally reported to EPA via the Legacy STORET System.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| SPRAY | Site where water has been sprayed on the surface of the land for purposes of irrigation. |
| SBSOIL | Subsoil - a drain title system or other points just below the surface of the land. |
| HRZTL | Horizontal well. |
| TUNNEL | Tunnel - an underground corridor. |
| GALERY | Gallery - an artificial, underground structure implanted to collect groundwater. |
| PRECIP | Wet atmospheric deposition (precipitation) due to the condensation of water vapor. Include mist, rain, sleet, snow, and hail. |
| NRSHRE | Near shore -less than 3 kilometers (approximately 1.9 miles) from a major shore. |
| OFSHRE | Off shore -from 3 to 8 kilometers (approximately 1.9 to 5 miles) from a major shore. |
| OPENLK | Open water - greater than 8 kilometers (approximately 5 miles) from a major shore. |
| RUNOFF | Stormwater runoff. |
| STMSWR | Stormwater sewer. |
| SANSWR | Sanitary sewer. |
| CMBSWR | Combined "STMSWR" and "SANSWR." |
| SUPPLY | Water supply storage or treatment facility. |
| NET | Fixed site network station. |
| MONITR | Source monitoring site, which monitors a known problem or to detect a specific problem. |
| HAZARD | Site of hazardous or toxic wastes or substances. |
| BACK | Monitoring for background (baseline) water quality. Opposite of "DOWN." |
| DOWN | Down (i.e., within a potentially polluted area) from a facility which has a potential to pollute. See also "DOWNGR" and "UPGR." |
| MET | Site where sampling is performed to describe scientific phenomena related to meteorological conditions, such as temperature, solar radiation, winds, and the quantity and quality of atmospheric deposition. |
| LNDRTR | Land treatment area. |
| UPGR | Upgradient of a well or spring. Only valid for use with "WELL" or "SPRING" (groundwater sites). |
| DOWNGR | Downgradient of a well or spring. Only valid for use with "WELL" or "SPRING" (groundwater sites). |
| RCRA | RCRA monitoring site. |
| CERCLA | CERCLA ("Superfund") monitoring site. |
| BASSAY | Bioassay site. |
| IMPDMT | Impoundment. Includes waste pits, treatment lagoons and settling and evaporation ponds. |
| LNDFL | Landfill. |
| INJECT | Site where liquid waste has been injected underground as a means of disposal. |
| NONPNT | Nonpoint source pollution. Includes eutrophication, acidification, thermal change, organic nutrients, sedimentation, and hydromodificaion. |
| DEVLMT | Development site. Includes construction. |
| MINE | Mine or site of mining activities. Includes reclaimed land areas and coal mining. |
| DISTR | Water supply distribution system. |
| BIO | Biological monitoring site (for BIOS Field Survey System). |
| FISH | Plant or animal matter sampling site |
| TISSUE | Sludge or sediment sampling site |
| SOLIDS | Sludge or sediment sampling site |
| SLUDGE | Sludge spreading site |
| POLLUT | Site of pollution incident |
| RANNEY | Ranney collector (usually associated with level 1 code "WELL") |
| ONLOT | On-lot septic system. |
| ECOREG | Reference station where sampling is performed to characterize water quality at nonimpacted or least impacted sites in an ecoregion |
| PLAYA | Shallow, small, ephemeral to permanent closed basin lake typically found in the high plains and deserts |
| FLOOD | Water impacted by major flooding condition |
| EMBAY | Land confined and physically protected marine waters with restricted openings to open coastal waters |
| OPNSCT | Open maring waters bounded by 600 foot depth contour and shoreline |
| ANPOOL | Anhialine pool, underground pools with subsurface connections to watertable and ocean |
| SHRLN | Shoreline, samples collected at the edge of a waterbody |
| VOLUN | Station contains data collected as part of volunteer monitoring efforts |
| HOURLY | Station contains data collected hourly |
| BEACH | Station located at the interface of the water and the beach |
| BRIDGE | Station located on a bridge |
| PIER | Station located on a pier |