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    BioNet

    Metadata Updated: September 1, 2023

    Since 1994, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and the State Hygienic Laboratory (SHL) have sampled fish and benthic macroinvertebrates across the state to assess the biological integrity of Iowa's streams and rivers. Benthic macroinvertebrates are small animals, such as aquatic insects, crustaceans, leeches, and snails that live on the stream bottom. The numbers and types of aquatic organisms found in a stream are useful indicators of the stream's health because they reflect changes in water quality and habitat.

    Biological assessments are an important part of the 305(b) Water Quality Reporting process, as they provide quantitative data on which assessments of water quality can be made.

    BioNet is the application used by the Iowa DNR to store and analyze this biological assessment information and make it available for internal use, external agencies, and the public.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date January 19, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date September 1, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Iowa metadata

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 19, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date September 1, 2023
    Publisher data.iowa.gov
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.iowa.gov/api/views/e7yf-f5fs
    Data First Published 2015-02-13
    Data Last Modified 2023-08-30
    Category Environmental Monitoring
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.iowa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 685b90b3-67ff-4a8b-85ac-3e452c7375b6
    Harvest Source Id b99375b9-0a36-4269-920a-6778122ddb87
    Harvest Source Title Iowa metadata
    Homepage URL https://data.iowa.gov/d/e7yf-f5fs
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 51b59bcdf6bd029a30dbae647c96f0da6d922c4e01a218b349412cc9556ec334
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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