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Water Quality Portal

Metadata Updated: February 10, 2026

The Water Quality Portal (WQP) is the premiere source of discrete water-quality data in the United States and beyond. This cooperative service integrates publicly available water-quality data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and over 400 state, federal, tribal, and local agencies.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date January 30, 2026
Metadata Updated Date February 10, 2026
Data Update Frequency R/P1D

Metadata Source

Harvested from EPA Non Geo Repository

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 30, 2026
Metadata Updated Date February 10, 2026
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. EPA Office of Water (OW)
Maintainer
Identifier 28bc151c-da9c-4daa-a45d-cb92141cb6a2
Data Last Modified 2021-12-14
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency R/P1D
Bureau Code 020:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://edg.epa.gov/data/nongeo_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
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id e6dab04b-7a9d-44d6-a582-46387a7b65dd
Harvest Source Id 9c1c2b5b-7925-4ca2-a663-ca2131653db1
Harvest Source Title EPA Non Geo Repository
Homepage URL https://www.waterqualitydata.us/
License https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
Primary IT Investment UII 020-000000103
Program Code 020:112
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 303c8f97d8c6f6783d9c0ddff4fb52cbb9227e160266b31e8bdb1be7e8af3913
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal 1987/2021

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