Returns a list of sites from the Water Quality Portal web service. This function gets the data from: https://www.waterqualitydata.us. Arguments to the function should be based on https://www.waterqualitydata.us/webservices_documentation. The information returned from this function describes the available data at the WQP sites, and some metadata on the sites themselves.
whatWQPdata(..., saveFile = tempfile())see https://www.waterqualitydata.us/webservices_documentation for a complete list of options. A list of arguments can also be supplied.
path to save the incoming geojson output.
A data frame with at least the following columns:
| Name | Type | Description |
| "type_a" | character | Geojson type |
| "features.type" | character | Geojson feature type |
| "type1" | character | Geojson spatial type |
| "coordinates" | list | List of longitude/latitude |
| "ProviderName" | character | The name of the database that provided the data to the Water Qaulity portal (E.G. STORET, NWIS, STEWARDS) |
| "OrganizationIdentifier" | character | A designator used to uniquely identify a unique business establishment within a context. |
| "OrganizationFormalName" | character | The legal designator (i.e. formal name) of an organization. |
| "MonitoringLocationIdentifier" | character | A designator used to describe the unique name, number, or code assigned to identify the monitoring location. |
| "MonitoringLocationName" | character | The designator specified by the sampling organization for the site at which sampling or other activities are conducted. |
| "MonitoringLocationTypeName" | character | The descriptive name for a type of monitoring location. |
| "ResolvedMonitoringLocationTypeName" | character | |
| "HUCEightDigitCode" | character | The 8 digit federal code used to identify the hydrologic unit of the monitoring location to the cataloging unit level of precision. |
| "siteUrl" | character | URL to site information |
| "activityCount" | numeric | |
| "resultCount" | numeric | |
| "StateName" | character | State name |
| "CountyName" | character | County name |
whatNWISsites
# NOT RUN {
site1 <- whatWQPdata(siteid="USGS-01594440")
type <- "Stream"
sites <- whatWQPdata(countycode="US:55:025",siteType=type)
lakeSites <- whatWQPdata(siteType = "Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment", statecode = "US:55")
# }
Run the code above in your browser using DataLab