R8’s Transition to WQX (Abridged) Michael Pipp Montana DEQ 2007 STORET/WQX User’s Conference Austin, Texas

R8 WQX Transition Project Schedule O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A Contract Awarded Kick-off meeting Project Plan Delivered Design Document Delivered Database Delivered Beta Application Beta Test Period Production Application Delivered Production Test Period

Montana’s Current STORET-based Data Flow Grantee Data DEQ’s Data

System Overview

BATCH LOAD TOOL (Internal Data) To be Developed Flat File National WQX/STORET Warehouse CDX ENODE XML Local WQX based dB States Data Management System BLT (XML Generator) XML BLT (Validation Engine) BLT (WQX Loader) Log File FUNC BLT (U/I)

BATCH LOAD TOOL (Outside Data )

Field DataExchange Network RAW DATA PROCESS& EXPORT WQX Local Database Local DMS WQX/STORET Data Store WQX Load&View Application WQX Load&View Application DATA FILE BATCH LOAD VIEW/EDIT XML FILE VALIDATION LOG DATA LOAD XML GENERATION DELIMITED EXPORT

R8 WQX Data Management dB - Simplified Basic Design Requirements 1.WQX v2.0 Plus (core schema) 1.R8 Additional Fields: 1.Personnel 2.Station establishment date 3.Travel Directions 4.Affiliation of Personnel 5.Lab Batch ID 6.Lab Sample ID 2.Database Platform 1.Oracle (primary) 2.SQL Server (secondary) 3.Locally-added and managed tables Local WQX dB WQX v2.0 (.R8)

R8 WQX Data Management Tool - Simplified Local Data Management Tool / Apps. WQ Data Batch Validation, Load, View, & Edit Tool (Web-based).txt Exchange Network Exchange Network.xml Basic Design Requirements 1..Net framework (C#) 2.Full validation of WQX v2.0 business rules 3.Data visualization 4.dB Dependent (Oracle) 5.Audit Tracking 6.Flexible to recognize custom WQX schema add-ons 7.Partial data loads (2) 8.Translations (2) 9.Error reporting (2) 10.XML Generation (3) Local WQX dB National CDX / WQX System

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