Water-quality Monitor Review (wqmreview)

The water-quality monitor review (wqmreview) program is the water-quality portion of the larger auto_review program that automates the production of record packets and assists with record checking, reviewing, and electronic archival for multiple record types. Wqmreview is designed for standard continuous water-temperature, specific conductance, dissolved oxygen, pH, and turbidity records. The wqmreview program is a component of the Continuous Water Quality Committee's (CWQC) recommended path for water-quality records. The wqmreview program was developed by Wade Walker (Colorado Water Science Center), with support from the CWQC.

Figure 1. Continuous Water Quality Committee recommended path for working with continuous water-quality records.

Latest wqmreview features include:

• Plots of instantaneous values:
  • Contain an upper graph of the selected DD's data and a lower graph of a reference dataset, typically discharge or stage data for the same period
  • Can include edited and computed instantaneous values, data correction instantaneous values, daily values, monitor inspections, reference site data, data correction entry with set number and remarks, and QWDATA field measurements
  • Include data aging of instantaneous values via color coded "rugging" at the bottom of the top plot.
• Common ADAPS tables that can also be included in the output are:
  • UV inventory tables of edited and computed data
  • site visit reports
  • DV table (including all stats set up to be stored in the DD processor)
  • end-of-year summary
  • ADAPS station analysis
  • primary report (optional)
  • QWDATA table

Downloads

The wqmreview program is packaged within the larger auto_review program.

Slides from a wqmreview November 2013 program training [7MB PPTX] are also available.

For More Information

For help or reporting errors or suggested enhancements, please contact Wade Walker (walker@usgs.gov).

Other Continuous Water-Quality Software

• Continuous Hydrologic Instrumentation Monitoring Program (CHIMP)
• Automated correction loader (ACL)
• Data-quality rating program