WHIT NAWQA Archive Record - Preliminary Survey

Archival Data Categories

 

Complete

Location

Site History and Identifiers

 

 

Location narrative and maps

Surface Water: Narrative 5% complete

Maps 100% complete

JDM: topos with sites marked

Lat & long data in NWIS

Ground Water: Narrative complete, Maps Complete

Narrative file: /nawqa/rcmoore/whit/wells/ lu.wells.drive.directions

Maps: well sites are marked on official district & NAWQA maps. Maps on well logs in individual well files, archive file cabinet 003.

Ecological: Complete

BFS & Synoptic: GIS coverages & GWSI

11 BFS location narrative on file /nawqa/jwfrey/NAWQAfield/Site.direction.doc

Synoptic in NAWQA Biology Synoptic Study binder on NTB shelf.

Site reconnaissance notes and sketches

Surface Water

None

Ground Water: Complete

Sketches on some well agreement forms; all wells have clipped topo map directions in logs

Ecological: Incomplete

BFS chosen from SW reconn.notes

Synoptic chosen from visual notes

Land owner or local contacts

Surface Water

None on file; most sites were on public land

Ground Water: Completed

File: /nawqa/rcmoore/whit/wells/lu.wells.drive.directions

GWSI

Individual well files archive file cabinet 003

Ecological

None

Sampling/measurement location sketches

Surface Water

On some field forms

Ground Water: Complete

Sampling depth recorded on Sampling Sheet, which is in each individual well file, archive file cabinet 003

Ecological

NAWQA Biology Synoptic Study
binder on NTB shelf

Photographs (also slides and video)

Surface Water

None

Ground Water: Complete

LU wells in individual well files in archive cabinet 003

Duplicates in photo binder in archive cabinet 002

Ecological: Complete

NAWQA Biology Synoptic Study binder on NTB shelf

BFS in binder by category and year on NTB shelf

Habitat binder contains photos and sketches

Site header data

Surface Water: Complete

NWIS under sitefile

Ground Water: Complete

GWSI and Dbase1

Ecological: Complete

GWSI

NAWQA Biology Synoptic Study binder on NTB shelf

File: /nawqa/jwfrey/biology/bio.sitefile

Well inventories

Surface Water

NA

Ground Water: Complete

Well and water-level inventories for flowpath studies in box above filing cabinets

Ecological

NA

Continuous Data Records

 

 

Raw media (ADR tapes, data logger files, strip charts)

Surface Water: Complete

Kept by data section

Ground Water

N/A

Ecological: Complete

On Disks and on Computer

Preliminary and processed computations for stage, temperature, conductance, pH, DO from on-site monitoring equipment.

Surface Water

Stage and Discharge data in Data Section. Others NA

Ground Water

Purge parameters recorded on sampling sheet in individual well files, archive file cabinet 003

Ecological: 12/94 to present

Temperature:

File: /nawqa/jwfrey/bology/temperature/archive

Backup on lap top in NTB and JWF office

Discharge for Synoptic on synoptic study binder

Computed unit-values and daily-values data

Surface Water: Complete

NWIS - ADAPS

Ground Water

N/A

Ecological

Temperature:

File: /nawqa/jwfrey/bology/temperature/archive

Backup on lap top in NTB and JWF office

Field Notes

 

 

Measurement notes (any kind)

Surface Water: Complete

Streamflow measurement notes and alkalinity done by NAWQA staff in individual site folders organized by site #, date, and time

Most streamflow measurements done and filed by data unit

Ground Water: Complete

General notes with photo documentation in book in archive cabinets 002 and 003

Ecological: Complete

Binder by category and year on NTB shelf

Water-quality field sheets

Surface Water: Complete

Individual site folders in archive cabinets 001, 002, 006, 008, 009

Bed sediment and tissue in archive cabinet 002

Ground Water: Complete

Individual well files in archive cabinet 003

Ecological

For selected synoptic sites in Synoptic binder

Field-analysis record sheets (titrations, immunoassay, etc.)

Surface Water: Complete

Immunoassay in MHK cabinet

Ground Water: Complete

Individual well files in archive cabinet 003

Ecological

N/A

Inspection notes

Surface Water: Complete

Gaging station inspections done by data unit

Ground Water: Complete

Located with individual well files in archive cabinet 003

Ecological

N/A

GW-site field sheets

Surface Water

NA

Ground Water: Complete

Located with individual well files in archive cabinet 003

Ecological

NA

Any miscellaneous notes

Surface Water: Complete

Emails of rerun requests filed in individual site folders by site #, date in archive cabinets

Ground Water: Complete

Notebooks in archive cabinet 002

Individual well files in archive cabinet 003

Ecological

E-mails

Analytical Services Request forms

Surface Water: Complete

Individual site folders filed by site #, date, time in appropriate archive cabinet

Ground Water: Complete

Individual well files in archived file cabinet 003

Ecological: Complete

NAWQA Biology Synoptic Study binder on NTB shelf

None for biology samples

Study Unit Library

 

 

Reports

Project Chief

Keeps reports from other NAWQA SUs and selected reference documents collected

Surface Water: Complete

WHIT reports, other NAWQA SU reports, and reference collected in library and Project Chief's office

Ground Water

?

Ecological

All biological reports done in White River Basin kept on NTB shelf

Maps (including all quad sheets)

Surface Water: Complete

Master in data room map drawer

Four copies with sites marked in JDM office

Ground Water: Complete

Have working set of 1:100,000 well site survey maps

GW sites are marked on District and NAWQA Master topo maps

Ecological: Complete

On master map in Data room, and National Synthesis

Chemical abstracts: health effects, CAS numbers, synonyms, properties

Surface Water: Complete

SYP has appropriate info on relevant pesticide compounds

Ground Water

SYP has appropriate info on relevant pesticide compounds

Ecological

JWF has appropriate info on relevant pesticide compounds

Contacts data

(Name, Organization, Purpose of contact, Address, telephone, FAX, e-mail Id....for Liaison Comm. members, news media, cooperators)

Project Chief

File with agency contact list and mailing list

Surface Water: Incomplete

JDM has some records in with contacts not related to
project

Ground Water: Complete

?

Ecological

Lawsuit contact files: /nawqa/jwfrey/biology/plankton/logs

Contact files: /nawqa/jwfrey/biblio/biology.tel.add

Selected e-mail messages

Project Chief

Electronic files available; will make paper copies

Surface Water: Complete

JDM has thousands of NAWQA related messages

Ground Water

Electronic files available; will make paper copies

Ecological: Complete

Litigation information in folder on JWF shelf

Electronic files available

Chemical Analyses

 

 

Water

Surface Water: Complete

Paper copies in individual site folders in archive cabinets

NWIS

Ground Water: Complete

Individual well files in archive cabinet 003

Ecological: Complete

NAWQA Biology Synoptic Study binder on NTB shelf

Tissue

Surface Water: Complete

 

Ground Water

N/A

Ecological: Complete

Paper copies in individual site folders in archive cabinet 002

NWIS

Sediment

Surface Water: Complete

Paper copies in individual site folders in archive cabinet 002

NWIS

Ground Water

N/A

Ecological

N/A

Quality-control analyses

Surface Water: Complete

JDM has fixed stations LIP data in individual site folders. Pre-1996 Data in archive cabinet 002.

Other network QC filed by network site # and date in appropriate archive cabinet

NWIS

Ground Water: Complete

Individual well files in archive cabinet 003

Ecological: Fish complete

Invert & algae incomplete

 

List of vouchers for fish by sites in file: /nawqa/jwfrey/biology/fish/voucher/*

Binder by category and year on NTB shelf

Physical Measurements

 

 

Meter-calibration records

Surface Water: Complete

Log book with appropriate meters

Ground Water: Complete

Log book with appropriate meters

Ecological: Complete

Log book with Hydrolab unit

Water

Surface Water: Complete

Water samples for isotopes & district GCMS pesticides stored in walk-in. Pesticide data in SYP files.

Ground Water: Complete

Parameters in individual well files

Ecological

In Synoptic binder on NTB shelf for selected sites

Habitat

Surface Water: Complete

NTB and JWF have paper copy of data

Ground Water

N/A

Ecological: Complete

Binder by category and year on NTB shelf

RDB data with National Synthesis Team

File: /nawqa/jwfrey/biology/habitat/data/*

Soil

Surface Water: Complete

Lysimeter work: none standard data in unix files kept by ERB and SYP

Ground Water

?

Ecological

N/A

Biota

Surface Water

?

Ground Water

N/A

Ecological: Complete

Fish binder by year on NTB shelf

File: /nawqa/jwfrey/biology/fish/fishdata.rdb

Basin boundaries

Surface Water: Complete

nawqa/ntbaker/whitnawqa91_gis/sw

Ground Water: Complete

nawqa/ntbaker/whitnawqa91_gis/gw

Ecological: Complete

GIS coverages in directory: /nawqa/ntbaker whitnawqa91_gis/basecovers/

Files: wr_subbasin and ecosysn_basins

Study boundaries

Surface Water: Complete

Fixed sites with NTB

Some synoptic sites may be done All done

Ground Water

?

Ecological

?

Specimens

 

 

Organisms

Surface Water

NA

Ground Water

NA

Ecological: Complete

Physical: green fish cabinet in warehouse

Photographs in fish binder by year on NTB shelf

Sediment or Drill-stem cores

Surface Water

?

Ground Water

None

Ecological

NA

Drill cuttings

Surface Water

NA

Ground Water: Complete

Grab samples for flow path wells at Sugar Creek only in NAWQA cage

Ecological

N/A

Ancillary Factors

 

 

Aerial photographs and satellite imagery

Surface Water: Complete

see eco notes

Ground Water

Aerial photos recently purchased for LU characterization are in MHK's office

Ecological: Complete

Paper copies of aerial photographs in binder for basic fixed sites habitat reaches

National Synthesis Team has infrared reference photos for Little Buck & Sugar Creek basins

Black & white air photos of Little Buck Creek

Climate: precip, runoff, temperature

Surface Water: Complete

Streamflow in ADAPS

Precipitation & temperature in NWS and NOAA reports

Ground Water

None

Ecological

Randy Bayless may have runoff data at Sugar Creek

Physiography: elevation, ecoregions

Surface Water: Complete

GIS and books

Ground Water: Complete

GWSI

Ecological: Some need Metadata

NTB moving coverages to /nawqa/ntbaker/whitnawqa91_gis/basecovers/ folder

Surficial geology

Surface Water: Complete

Published map records and GIS

Ground Water: Complete

Coverage maintained by NTB

Ecological

NA

Soils

Surface Water: Complete

Published reports

STATSGO

Ground Water: Complete

Published reports

STATSGO

Ecological

N/A

Land use and land cover

Surface Water: Complete

GIS

Ground Water: Complete

Qualitative characterization for each well site stored in individual well files, archive cabinet 003

Ecological

?

Land ownership

Surface Water: Incomplete

GIS for public lands

Ground Water: Complete

File: /nawqa/rcmoore/whit/wells/lu.wells.drive.directions

GWSI

Individual well files in archive cabinet 003

Ecological

?

Census

Surface Water: Incomplete

?

Ground Water

?

Ecological

?

Wetlands

Surface Water: Complete

GIS

Ground Water: Complete

?

Ecological

?

Public-land Survey boundaries

Surface Water: Complete

GIS

Ground Water: Complete

?

Ecological

?

Commercial, industrial, and mining activities

Surface Water: Complete

GIS

Ground Water

?

Ecological

?

Agricultural activities: crop patterns, chemical and fertilizer usage

Surface Water: Complete

Published reports (i.e., Indiana Ag, Conservation tillage diskettes by county)

Groundwater

Published reports (i.e., Indiana Ag, Conservation tillage diskettes by county)

Crops at time of sampling recorded on LU characterization form which is stored in individual well files, archive cabinet 003

Ecological

Published reports (i.e., Indiana Ag, Conservation tillage diskettes by county)

Point sources, inc. NPDES

Surface Water: Complete

JDM miscellaneous directory. Maps in box.

Output in archive cabinet 006.

Ground Water

JDM miscellaneous directory. Maps in box.

Output in archive cabinet 006.

Ecological

JDM miscellaneous directory. Maps in box.

Output in archive cabinet 006.

Water use

Surface Water: Complete

DNR data via Don Arvin. Maps in box.

Output in archive cabinet 006.

Ground Water

DNR data via Don Arvin. Maps in box.

Output in archive cabinet 006.

Ecological

DNR data via Don Arvin. Maps in box.

Output in archive cabinet 006.

Known environmental-contamination incidents

Surface Water: Incomplete

State 305B reports

Ground Water

State 305B reports

Ecological

State 305B reports

Documents

 

 

Purpose and procedure of sampling-network design

Surface Water: Complete

Published report, Summary Report, Workplans

Ground Water: Complete

Well log files in individual well files in archive cabinet 003

Ecological

Published Reports, Summary Report, Workplans

Purpose, procedure, and conclusions of topical quality assurance experiments

Surface Water: Complete

JDM files

Ground Water

?

Ecological

Fish: JWF files

News clippings

Project Chief

Record of news in response to NAWQA news releases & reports

Surface Water: Incomplete

Scattered locations

Ground Water

?

Ecological

?

Purpose and procedures of study-unit-specific data-collection activities

Project Chief

Deviations from protocol with field notes in individual site folders

Surface Water

?

Ground Water

?

Ecological

Deviations in fish sampling coded in data aggregation

Planned or potential NAWQA "spinoff" studies

Surface Water

Possible WRIR studies

Ground Water

None

Ecological

Marion County fish and inverts. study

Liaison committee meeting minutes

Project Chief

Archive cabinet 001

Surface Water

NA

Ground Water

NA

Ecological

NA

Outreach, Misc. contacts, Presentations

Project Chief

CGC has partial list; needs to be reconciled with JDM list

Surface Water: Incomplete

JDM has partial list of presentations given

Ground Water

None

Ecological

?

Personnel lists and duty assignments

Project Chief

On website

Surface Water: Complete

Sample collection personnel codes in NWIS

Ground Water

None

Ecological

 

Note: Surface water site files kept by network, site #, data, and year. Networks include GW, SW fixed, SW miscellaneous, SW synoptic, SW baseflow, Tile drains, and Bed sediment & tissue

 

Study Unit Staff and Initials:

Nancy Baker: NTB

Randy Bayless: ERB

Charles Crawford: CGC

Linda Debrewer: LMD

Jeffrey Frey: JWF

Moon Kim: MHK

Jeffrey Martin: JDM

Rhett Moore: RCM

Sandra Panshin: SYP