2023-2025 network maintenance and improvements in support of the ngwmnproject period: 9 1 2023 through 8 31 2025THE north carolina department of environmental quality (NCDEQ) is a current…

The Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $298,114 Cooperative Agreement to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) to support the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN) program (CFDA 15.980) from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025. Under this award, NCDEQ will:

1. Provide persistent data services for two years to ensure NCDEQ's water-level and water quality network data continues to flow to the NGWMN data portal and that site metadata is up-to-date.
2. Maintain, expand, and improve NCDEQ's water quality web services.
3. Replace 185 data loggers that are over 5-years old.
4. Deliver a year 1 project status report and a final report documenting all project work.

NCDEQ will perform this work internally and also contract with a vendor to maintain and update the web services supporting data delivery to the NGWMN.

2023-2025 network maintenance and improvements in support of the ngwmnproject period: 9 1 2023 through 8 31 2025THE north carolina department of environmental quality (NCDEQ) is a current water-level and water quality network data provider. This project is to support flow of the districts data to the national ground-water monitoring network (NGWMN) and to enhance the data collected by the provider for the NGWMN. During this project the NCDEQ will provide persistent data services for two years to ensure that their data continues to flow the NGWMN data portal and that metadata for network sites are up to date. They will also maintain, expand, and improve water-quality web services and will replace 185 data loggers that are over 5-years old. As part of the project the NCDEQ will: 1) deliver a project status report after one year of work, 2) keep the NGWMN monitoring location registry up to date with latest site metadata, 3) ensure that web services for the NGWMN continue to deliver data to the data portal, and 4) produce a final report documenting all work accomplished during the project. The beneficiaries of the work will be the: north carolina department of environmental quality, water users within north carolina, and users of the national ground-water monitoring network. In addition to work performed by NCDEQ staff, some of the project funds are for subrecipients. Work to maintain and update web services will be performed by a contract vendor.