Potential Contaminant Source Inventory Tools Links

NOTICE: Links to non-EPA sites do not imply any official EPA endorsement of, or responsibility for, the opinions, ideas, data or products presented at those locations, or guarantee the validity of the information provided. Links to non-EPA servers are provided solely as a pointer to information on topics related to environmental protection that may be useful to EPA staff and the public. 

• EPA's National Records Management Program: Effluent Guidelines Studies - Contains information collected on an industry-by-industry basis to support development of various technology-based effluent guidelines. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• EPA's OGWDW: National Contaminant Occurrence Database - Provides water sample analytical data that EPA is currently using and has used in the past for analysis, rulemaking, and rule evaluation. This information can be used as water quality monitoring data.

• EPA's OGWDW: Safe Drinking Water Information System, Federal Version - This database contains basic information on each water system including source of water, violation and enforcement information, and sampling results. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• EPA's OGWDW: Safe Drinking Water Information System, State Version - This database houses three major categories of information: inventory, sampling, and monitoring. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances (OPPTS): Pollution Prevention and Toxics Databases - Contains various databases on chemicals.

• EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances (OPPTS): Toxic Chemical Release Inventory System - This database can retrieve facility information and chemical reports by facility name, geographic location, standard industrial classification, and chemical names. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD): Environmental Information Management System (EIMS) - A collection of descriptive information (metadata) for data sets, databases, documents, models, projects, and spatial data. The EIMS design also provides a repository for scientific documentation that can be easily accessed with standard Web browsers. This information can be used as a land use characterization.

• EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER): Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System - Allows you to view superfund data by facility name or geographic location. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER): Resource Conservation and Recovery Information System - This system collects biennial data on the generation, management, and minimization of hazardous waste from large quantity generators. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER): Underground Storage Tanks (UST), UST-Access - Database includes information about the facility's owner, its tank systems, release records, and level of compliance. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• EPA's Office of Wastewater Management (OWM): Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs) Virtual Information Center - Can be used to facilitate quick access to livestock agricultural information in the U.S. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• EPA's Office of Water: Envirofacts - This database can generate queries, maps, and reports of environmental information in any area of the U.S. This information can be used as a contaminant source library.

• EPA's Office of Water: Storage and Retrieval (STORET) - STORET contains raw biological, chemical, and physical data on surface and ground water. This information can be used as water quality monitoring data.

• EPA's Office of Water: Watershed Assessment, Tracking and Environmental Results (WATERS) - WATERS unites water quality information that was previously available only from several independent and unconnected databases. This information can be used as a contaminant source library.

• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): Mapping And Analysis Center. - Provides national level Geographic Information System (GIS) support and coordination from FEMA.

• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): Multi-Hazard Maps and Information - Can create custom hazard maps by entering a location hazard types to help determine disaster risks in your community. This information can be used as a land use characterization.

• Tennessee Valley Authority: Toxics Release Inventory - Toxics Release Inventory data is available through this Web site. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): Agriculture Research Service Data Base - A national archive of precipitation and streamflow data from small agricultural watersheds that can be used to reconstruct storm hydrographs and hyetographs. This information can be used for water quality monitoring data.

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): Economic Research Service, Data Products - A compilation of land, water, and conservation data, including county level information on the lands enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program. This information can be used as a potential contaminant source inventory tool to determine land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): Forest Service, Global Positioning Data (GPS) - A source of GPS reference data, focusing on forestry related GPS mapping and GIS applications. This information can be used to determine land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): Forest Service, National Forest Maps - Provides links to national forest maps by region. This information can be used to determine land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): National Agricultural Statistics Service - A compilation of data on virtually every facet of U.S. agriculture production.

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), National Resources Inventory - A statistical survey of land use and natural resource conditions and trends on U.S. non-Federal lands. This information can be used to determine land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Potential Priority Watersheds for Protection of Water Quality from Nonpoint Sources Related to Agriculture [BROKEN LINK]- This analysis provides national maps to assist decision makers in identifying priority watersheds for water quality protection from nonpoint source related to agriculture. This information can be used to determine land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Soil Survey Geographic Data Base (SSURGO) - SSURGO is the most detailed level of soil mapping. It is designed for use by landowners, townships, and county natural resource planning and management. This database can be used to determine land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), State Soil Geographic Data Base - A digital general soil association map with attribute tables consisting of a broad-based inventory of soils and nonsoil areas that occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape. This database can be used to determine land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of Commerce: Census Bureau, Data Access Tools - Includes interactive internet tools and downloadable software. This information can be used to determine land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of Commerce: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Environmental Service Data Directory [BROKEN LINK]- Data sources from this site include descriptions related to climatology, meteorology, ecology, pollution, geology, oceanography, and remote sensing satellites. This information can be used as a contaminant source library.

• U.S. Department of Defense: Army Corps of Engineers, Formerly Used Defense Sites [BROKEN LINK]- Allows public access to the Formerly Used Defense Sites Public Geographic Information System. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Information - Contains information about the supply, consumption, distribution, and price of energy in the United States. This information can be used as a land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of Transportation: Coast Guard, Oil and Chemical Spill Data, National Response Center (NRC) - NRC is the sole federal point of contact for reporting oil and chemical spills. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• U.S. Department of Transportation: Coast Guard, Oil and Chemical Spills Compendium - Contains pollution incidents in and around U.S. waters from 1969 - 2001. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• U.S. Department of Transportation: Office of Pipeline Safety, National Pipeline Mapping System - Contains the locations and selected attributes of natural gas transmission lines, hazardous liquid trunklines, and liquefied natural gas facilities. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: Bureau of Land Management, Geographic Coordinate Database - Contains data such as geographic coordinates that is collected on a township basis. This information can be used as a land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation, Water Data - Contains information on reservoirs, facilities, water data, engineering, and contacts. This information can be used as a land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: Fish and Wildlife Service, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Data - Provides access to GIS data layers for wetlands, roads, and topography compiled by the Fish and Wildlife Service. This information can be used as a land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory - Gives access to metadata and wetland map searches. This information can be used as a land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: Geological Survey (USGS), Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative - Contains information on the Abandoned Mine Lands initiative. The strategy will employ a watershed approach, in which contaminated sites are identified and remediated based on their effect on the water and ecosystem quality of a targeted watershed. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: Geological Survey (USGS), Geological Radon Potential in the United States - Contains geologic radon potential reports which describe the geology, soils, radioactivity, generalized housing construction characteristics, and include discussions of the geologic factors controlling radon potential in each state. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: Geological Survey (USGS), Land Use and Land Cover - Consists of historical land use and land cover classification data that was based primarily on the manual interpretation of 1970's and 1980's aerial photography. This information can be used as a land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: Geological Survey (USGS), National Atmospheric Deposition Program National Trends Network - Provides on-line data and reports on acid rain, atmospheric deposition and precipitation chemistry. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: Geological Survey (USGS), National Water Information System - This index includes publications, data, maps, and applications software. This information can be used as water quality monitoring data.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: Geological Survey (USGS), National Water Quality Assessment Program - Provides access to chemical, biological, and physical water quality data from study units (basins) across the nation.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: Geological Survey (USGS), Spatially Referenced Regressions On Watershed Attributes (SPARROW) - Describes how the SPARROW model is a method for regional interpretation of water-quality monitoring data. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: National Park Service, Geography and Mapping Technologies - Gives geographic information system and global positioning information for national parks. This information can be used as a land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: National Park Service, Water Quality Data Management and Archiving [BROKEN LINK]- Contains an archive of all physical, chemical, and biological water quality data collected with water quality funds in the National Park Service's STORET database. This information can be used as a land use characterization.

• U.S. Department of the Interior: Office of Surface Mining, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory [BROKEN LINK]- Contains an inventory of land and water impacted by past coal mining. This information can be used as a geo-referenced potential source.