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Meta Identifier DEP_Bugs

Type of Data Aquatic invertebrates

Originator Maine Department of Environmental Protection

Description DEP has collected macroinvertebrates for several years in the Sheepscot watershed. Some of the data are available on Internet (see address below) in the report Biomonitoring Retrospective: Fifteen Year Summary for Maine Rivers and Streams. The report consists of different HTML pages for each chapter, so cannot be downloaded all at once.

Area Sheepscot watershed

Metadata Date 9/15/2004

Metadata Contact Patrick Higgins

Contact Person Primary Leon Tsomides

Status integrating

Request Log Front of MDEP (1999) lists http://www.state.me.us/dep/blwq/docmonitoring/biomonitoring/susan.p.davies@state.me.us as contact.

Access Constraints Only tables available in report as text were available as of first full Draft KRIS Sheepscot (9/15/04).

Progress Log Acquiring. No data could be acquired in time for KRIS Sheepscot V1.0, so only integrated data from report.

Lead Person Pat Higgins

Lead Organization Institute for Fisheries Resources

Notes STAC Priority: High

Data Set Name aq_inv_ept.dbf, aq_inverts_sum_all_vs_sheepscot_84_99.dbf

Purpose Provides a summary of the results of biological monitoring of benthic macroinvertebrates in rivers and streams, between 1983 and 1998, in the State of Maine, by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (MDEP).

Data Quality Information High

Use Constraints Not yet available in electronic

Supplemental Information Maine Department of Environmental Protection (MDEP), 1999. Biomonitoring retrospective: Fifteen year summary for Maine rivers and streams (see KRIS Sheepscot Bibliography)

Keywords biomonitoring, aquatic invertebrates, Maine rivers

On Line Linkage (URL) http://www.maine.gov/dep/blwq/docmonitoring/biomonitoring/index.htm

Publisher Maine Department of Environmental Protection

Publication Place Augusta, ME

Publication Date 1999

Issue Identification Water Quality

Title Biomonitoring retrospective: Fifteen year summary for Maine rivers and streams

Abstract Overview of historical findings, biomonitoring activities and results, current status and planned future activities.

Other Citation Details Contains description of various developmental and implementation aspects of the State’s biocriteria program, including development of analytical methods and resulting numeric biocriteria, as well as regulatory and reporting applications of the information.

Storage Location Division of Environmental Assessment, Bureau of Land and Water Quality, Augusta, ME

Contact Organization Maine Department of Environmental Protection

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Meta Identifier	DEP_Bugs
Type of Data	Aquatic invertebrates
Originator	Maine Department of Environmental Protection
Description	DEP has collected macroinvertebrates for several years in the Sheepscot watershed. Some of the data are available on Internet (see address below) in the report Biomonitoring Retrospective: Fifteen Year Summary for Maine Rivers and Streams. The report consists of different HTML pages for each chapter, so cannot be downloaded all at once.
Area	Sheepscot watershed
Metadata Date	9/15/2004
Metadata Contact	Patrick Higgins
Contact Person Primary	Leon Tsomides
Status	integrating
Request Log	Front of MDEP (1999) lists http://www.state.me.us/dep/blwq/docmonitoring/biomonitoring/susan.p.davies@state.me.us as contact.
Access Constraints	Only tables available in report as text were available as of first full Draft KRIS Sheepscot (9/15/04).
Progress Log	Acquiring. No data could be acquired in time for KRIS Sheepscot V1.0, so only integrated data from report.
Lead Person	Pat Higgins
Lead Organization	Institute for Fisheries Resources
Notes	STAC Priority: High
Data Set Name	aq_inv_ept.dbf, aq_inverts_sum_all_vs_sheepscot_84_99.dbf
Purpose	Provides a summary of the results of biological monitoring of benthic macroinvertebrates in rivers and streams, between 1983 and 1998, in the State of Maine, by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (MDEP).
Data Quality Information	High
Use Constraints	Not yet available in electronic
Supplemental Information	Maine Department of Environmental Protection (MDEP), 1999. Biomonitoring retrospective: Fifteen year summary for Maine rivers and streams (see KRIS Sheepscot Bibliography)
Keywords	biomonitoring, aquatic invertebrates, Maine rivers
On Line Linkage (URL)	http://www.maine.gov/dep/blwq/docmonitoring/biomonitoring/index.htm
Publisher	Maine Department of Environmental Protection
Publication Place	Augusta, ME
Publication Date	1999
Issue Identification	Water Quality
Title	Biomonitoring retrospective: Fifteen year summary for Maine rivers and streams
Abstract	Overview of historical findings, biomonitoring activities and results, current status and planned future activities.
Other Citation Details	Contains description of various developmental and implementation aspects of the State’s biocriteria program, including development of analytical methods and resulting numeric biocriteria, as well as regulatory and reporting applications of the information.
Storage Location	Division of Environmental Assessment, Bureau of Land and Water Quality, Augusta, ME
Contact Organization	Maine Department of Environmental Protection