Penobscot Indian Nation
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Penobscot Indian Nation (PIN) received its first Exchange Network grant in 2007. The Water Resources Program ([1]) has been collecting data for more than 15 years and is preparing to report to EPA electronically.
Penobscot River with Mt. Katahdin in the background (taken by James Eric Francis, Historian)
PIN also has a Water Quality Monitoring Cooperative Agreement with Maine Department of Environmental Protection through which collected data are made available for use in Maine's 305 (b) Water Quality Assessment report to Congress. PIN is currently working on developing a Trading Partner Agreement (TPA ) with Maine DEP to facilitate this data exchange.
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In the Penobscot Indian Nation Water Resources Program we manage our data in a MS Access database called Penobscot Indian Nation Environmental (PINE). Field data on physical/chemical parameters are collected on mobile digital assistants using electronic forms based on tables in the PINE database. This data is synchronized with a back end field database file. The field database has front end forms for making final edits, checking in the samples and documenting bacteria sample preparation. The relevant field information is moved to a laboratory and common archive database file. The front end laboratory data entry forms are used for in-house analysis done by PIN including: bacteria, total suspended solids, biological oxygen demand, alkalinity, conductivity, turbidity, color and pH. Laboratory data also gets sent to a common archive database file. An uploading tool copies both field and laboratory data into the main PINE database file.
The process for real-time electronic entry of field and laboratory data has been amended to accommodate entering data from paper reports from previous years. Current efforts include making data processing more efficient, incorporating more quality-assurance checks, and producing a good data entry form for information from external laboratories. In addition, we are working to add continuous data from data loggers/data sondes into the database.
Active Data Exchanges
WQX
Planned Data Exchanges
Other One Stop or Exchange Network Related Projects
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