Publications—Open-File Report 99–254
By Shannon G. Dionne, Gregory E. Granato, and Cameron K. Tana
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99–254
Prepared in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration. A Contribution to the National Highway Runoff Data and Methodology Synthesis.
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This report is available in Portable Document Format (PDF):
OFR 99–254 (584 KB) – 165
pages
A readily accessible archive of
information that is valid, current, and
technically defensible is needed to make
informed highway-planning, design, and
management decisions. The National
Highway Runoff Water-Quality Data and
Methodology Synthesis (NDAMS) is a
cataloging and assessment of the
documentation of information relevant to
highway-runoff water quality available in
published reports. The report review
process is based on the NDAMS review
sheet, which was designed by the USGS
with input from the FHWA, State
transportation agencies, and the regulatory
community. The report-review process is
designed to determine the technical merit of
the existing literature in terms of current
requirements for data documentation, data
quality, quality assurance and quality control
(QA/QC), and technical issues that may
affect the use of historical data. To facilitate
the review process, the NDAMS review
sheet is divided into 12 sections:
(1) administrative review information,
(2) investigation and report information,
(3) temporal information, (4) location
information (5) water-quality-monitoring
information, (6) sample-handling methods,
(7) constituent information, (8) sampling
focus and matrix, (9) flow monitoring
methods, (10) field QA/QC, (11)
laboratory, and (12) uncertainty/error
analysis.
This report describes the NDAMS
report reviews and metadata documentation
methods and provides an overview of the
approach and of the quality-assurance and
quality-control program used to implement
the review process. Detailed information,
including a glossary of relevant terms, a
copy of the report-review sheets, and reportreview
instructions are completely
documented in a series of three appendixes
included with this report. Therefore the
reviews are repeatable and the methods can
be used by transportation research
organizations to catalog new reports as they
are published.
Abstract
Introduction
Purpose and Scope
Acknowledgements
Background
Approach
Section 1: Review Information
Section 2: Investigation and Report Information
Section 3: Temporal Information
Section 4: Location Information
Section 5: Water-Quality-Monitoring Methods
Section 6: Sample-Handling Methods
Section 7: Constituent Information
Section 8: Sampling Focus and Matrix
Section 9: Flow-Monitoring Methods
Sections 10 and 11: Field and Laboratory Quality Assurance and Quality Control
Section 12: Uncertainty/Error Analysis
Quality Assurance and Quality Control in the Report-Review Process
Summary
References
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Suggested Citation:
Dionne, S.G., Granato, G.E., and Tana, C.K., 1999, Method for examination and documentation of basic information and metadata from published reports relevant to the study of stormwater runoff quality: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-254, 156 p.
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Director,
USGS Massachusetts–Rhode Island Water Science Center
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Northborough, MA 01532or visit our Web site at:
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