1. The Current Status of STORET and its Future in Colorado Jim Dorsch Water Quality Specialist Metro Wastewater Reclamation District

2. Typical Data Owner Initial Reactions to STORET

3. Successful applications of STORET Metro Waste Water Reclamation District  26 Stations  189,847 Results South Platte Coalition for Urban River Evaluation  8 Organizations  21 Stations  11,974 Results The Rivers of Colorado Water Watch Network (River Watch)  1,005 Stations  495,169 Results

4. Success Achieved Through Determination Issues that where overcome: Front end Set Up Missing Meta Data 1.Latitude/Longitude 2.Other Meta Data required by STORET Reformatting Data 1.Relational Database? What the hell is that? 2.Batch upload and SIM formats Uploading Data 1.Error Messages 2.Correcting Errors Continual Software Updates

5. STORET’s Future in Colorado Individual Organizations State Governmental Agency Support Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council

6. 1999 – Colorado Water Quality Control Division ~ 150 People Contacted / ~ 50 attended first Meeting STORET Mentioned Minimum Metadata Elements & Data Swaps Financial Issues / Politics

7. Regime Change New Idea and Focus 1.Develop a State Wide Database 2.Funding

8. State Wide Database Monitoring Council and State Regulator support Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Funding? Off the shelf Water Quality Database

9. Funding & Support  319 Non-point Source Grant  Everyone agreed that a common data format was needed  State Regulator Issues  Database  How does it benefit us  Toes

10. TAC Plan to Address Issues STORET and Associated Tools State STORET Web SIM ArcIMS Map Existing and Future 319 Non-point Source Data sets Other Data Sets Significant Documentation Out Reach (Training and Sell the product) In-Kind Support Permanent Hosting Strategy Sustainability Strategy

11. Where Are We? State Water Quality Control Division is on Board Monitoring Council is on Board Grant Proposal RFP for the grant has been released and proposal received. Project Manager and Technical Subcontractor Selected In-Kind Support has been addressed

12. Where are we going? A Sustainable Program Hosting of database and Mapping tool Membership Fees for funding Continued in-kind support