Water Quality Measurements from Multiple Sites with Temporal Coverage

Multiple years of water quality measurements from various sites, recorded to monitor environmental health and pollution levels. The dataset includes parameters such as Fecal Coliform, Conductivity, Temperature, and Nitrogen compounds. It is published under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Identify pollution hotspots based on parameters like Fecal Coliform and Nitrite + Nitrate Nitrogen.
• Study temporal changes in water quality across different water bodies based on multi-year data.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of environmental policies based on trends in measured parameters.
• Conduct comparative analysis of water quality across different site types and geographic areas.

Strengths

• Includes a diverse range of measured parameters such as Fecal Coliform, Conductivity, and Total Nitrogen.
• Data spans multiple years, enabling analysis of temporal trends.
• Contains detailed metadata including collection date, depth, site type, and location descriptors.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent for some fields; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

OpenML platform.

Collection Method

Samples collected from various water bodies, with laboratory analysis.

Time Range

Spans multiple years.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Sites include areas like Central Puget Sound and Lake Sammamish.