WQX: Biological Habitat Index Report

Report Name: WQX: Biological Habitat Index

File Name: schema.WQX.xme

Dependencies: EQuIS WQX Schema

Software: EQuIS Professional and EQuIS Enterprise

Source: Available in the EQuIS WQX package (EQEDD_WQX_FormatPackage.zip) on the EarthSoft Community Center downloads dashboard from the All Items > Formats folder for users who have Download access.

Language: English

Output Type: Report Grid1

Description: The Water Quality eXchange (WQX) is a standardized data framework and submission mechanism for sharing water quality data that is administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). The fields in the output of the WQX: Biological Habitat Index report gives the index for locations associated with a sampling activity.

See the EQuIS WQX Package Overview for more information on WQX, related terminology, and anticipated workflow for using EQuIS to submit data to WQX.

Installation Instructions: This report is automatically created when the EQuIS WQX Schema is applied to the EQuIS database. The EQuIS WQX Schema available as part of a format package (EQEDD_WQX_FormatPackage.zip). See the WQX Package Installation and Configuration article for more details.

Notes:

•The EQuIS WQX Schema (schema.WQX.xme) is not included with the standard EQuIS installation and must be manually applied. See Apply Additional Modules/Schemas to a Database for additional information.  

•A Premium Enterprise license is required to apply the EQuIS WQX Schema to an EQuIS Enterprise site. See Applying Licenses in EQuIS Enterprise for additional information.

Overview: Many fields in the WQX.BIOLOGICALHABITATINDEX views table are also present in the WQX: Biological Habitat Index report. This report automatically filters by ORIGID (facility where this report is being generated).

Tables: DT_FACILITY, DT_FILE, DT_LOCATION_PARAMETER, RT_LOCATION_PARAM_TYPE

Report Parameters

Project
Identifier	Code used to identify the parent task under which the field sample was retrieved (aka DT_TASK.PARENT_TASK_CODE associated with DT_SAMPLE.TASK_CODE).
Monitoring Location
HUC (Eight Digit)	Parameter for the 8-digit Hydraulic Unit Code (LOC_MAJOR_BASIN).
HUC (Eight Digit)
HUC (Twelve Digit)	Parameter for the 12-digit Hydraulic Unit Code (LOC_MINOR_BASIN).
State	The monitoring location’s state code (LOC_STATE_CODE).
State
County	The monitoring location’s county code (LOC_COUNTY_CODE).
Identifier	Name of the monitoring location (SYS_LOC_CODE).
Activity
Type	Parameter for the WQX activity type (SAMPLE_TYPE_CODE).
Media	Parameter for the WQX activity media (MEDIUM_CODE).
Media
Subdivision	Parameter for the WQX activity media subdivision (MATRIX_CODE).
Biological
Assemblage	Parameter for the WQX activity assemblage (ASSEMBLAGE).
Date Range
Start	Start date of the WQX activity.
End	End date of the WQX activity.

Report Output
AUTHOR BINARYOBJECTCONTENT BINARYOBJECTID CONFIDENTIAL FILEDATE	FILENAME FILETYPE ORGID PARENTOBJECTID PARENTOBJECTTYPE	PARENTSUBOBJECTID PUBLISHER REMARK TITLE

Report Output

AUTHOR

BINARYOBJECTCONTENT

BINARYOBJECTID

CONFIDENTIAL

FILEDATE

FILENAME

FILETYPE

ORGID

PARENTOBJECTID

PARENTOBJECTTYPE

PARENTSUBOBJECTID

PUBLISHER

REMARK

TITLE

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