Pipestone National Monument Water Quality GIS Layers

Pipestone National Monument's water quality GIS layers were compiled by the National Park Service for a baseline inventory report. The data includes locations of monitoring stations, industrial discharges, drinking intakes, gages, and impoundments, sourced from six EPA databases. Base layers such as roads, hydrography, and political boundaries are included at scales generally around 1:100,000.

Use Cases

• Mapping water quality monitoring station locations based on the STORET database retrievals
• Analyzing potential pollution sources based on industrial facility discharge locations
• Assessing water resource infrastructure based on data for drinking intakes, gages, and impoundments
• Creating regional hydrography maps based on the River Reach File (RF3) layer

Strengths

• Data compiled from six authoritative EPA national databases
• Includes multiple base GIS layers such as roads, hydrography, and political boundaries
• Geospatial scales are generally specified as 1:100,000

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• The specific data layers included vary depending on availability

Provenance

Source

Department of the Interior, National Park Service Servicewide Inventory and Monitoring Program and Water Resources Division

Collection Method

Compiled for a Baseline Water Quality Data Inventory and Analysis Report using EPA databases

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-04 01:29:14.769355; freshness should be verified

Geography

Pipestone National Monument