STAID - Well identification number
SNAME - Well name
DATES - Date sample was collected
TIMES - Time sample was collected
LAT - Latitude of well location
LONG - Longitude of well location
MEDIM - Medium code (i.e. surface water, ground water, animal tissue, core material, etc...)
- 6 = environmental ground-water sample
- 9 = environmental surface-water sample
- Q = Quality-assurance blank sample (ground water and surface water)
- S = Quality-assurance spike or replicate sample (ground water)
- R = Quality-assurance spike or replicate sample (surface water)
STYPE - Sample type
- 9 = regular enviromental sample (surface water)
- 7 = replicate sample (ground water and surface water)
- 2 = Quality-assurance blank sample (ground water and surface water)
- 1 = Quality-assurance spike sample (ground water and surface water)
STATE - State code
- 08 = Colorado
- 20 = Kansas
- 31 = Nebraska
- 35 = New Mexico
- 40 = Oklahoma
- 46 = South Dakota
- 48 = Texas
- 56 = Wyoming
CNTYC - State code + 3 digit county code
(FIPS code)
EVENT - Hydrologic event
- 9 = Routine sample
- 7 = Flood
- 6 = Hurricane
- 4 = Snowmelt
- 3 = Regulated flow
- J = Storm
- E = Tidal action
00027 - Agency that collected the sample
- 1028 = U.S. Geological Survey
00028 - Agency that analyzed the sample
- 80020 = National Water-Quality Central Lab, Denver
- 1028 = U.S. Geological Survey
99111 - Quality-assurance data type associated with environmental sample
- 10 = blank
- 30 = replicate
- 40 = spike
- 100 = more than 1 type of QC sample
