Pennsylvania’s STORET Experience: Its successes and

failures in system implementationand data upload.

By Carrie L. WengertPennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

2004 National STORET Users Conference New Orleans, LA

November 15-17, 2004

INTRODUCTION• History• Data Input and Storage• Data Maintenance• Data Retrieval

HISTORY• STORET and the 1970’s

• Data Input and Retrieval

• Efficiency

STORET X and SIS

Results

• STORET-X• Sample Information

System (SIS)• What to do, Where

to go?

2001 – Present• Data Overhaul• Client Server STORET

v 1.2 SIM 1.2 • Stand Alone STORET

v 2.0 SIM v 2.0.1

CLIENT-SERVER

Client AEPA

Data Warehouse

Public

PROS:-Automatic Upgrades-Backups-Knowledge

CONS:-Extra Hands-No Control-Technical Problems

STAND ALONE

EPAData Warehouse

Public

Client C

PROS:-Control-Tables-Downloads-No Extraneous Factors

CONS:-Questions-Computer/Software Issues

DATA INPUT & STORAGE

• System Setup and Manipulation

• Data Storage in SIS

• Transferring Data

to STORET using

SIM

PA DEP Data Transfer

FIELDDATA

FIELDDATA

SIS AccessODBC

REFORMATUSING VBA

BATCH UPDATEUSING SIM

STORETLOCALCOPY

LOCAL INPUT

FORMATMANUALLY

ORACLE EXPORTSAVE as .DMP file

MIRRORCOPY

STORETCENTRAL

WAREHOUSE

WORLDWIDE WEB

DATA MAINTENANCE

• Quarterly

• Downloads from EPA

• New Version Releases

DATA RETREIVAL• Accessible to Anyone with Internet

• General Knowledge of PA and Water Quality Data

• Reduces Staff

Time

• Online Directions

DATA ANALYSISDO Trend Pre-1970 to Present-Susquehanna River at Veterans Memorial Bridge between Shamokin and Sunbury

0.00

2.00

4.00

6.00

8.00

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16.00

18.00

1/1/1962 6/24/1967 12/14/1972 6/6/1978 11/27/1983 5/19/1989 11/9/1994 5/1/2000

Year

DO

(m

g/l)

FUTURE STEPS• New Programs• New Types of Data• New Media• Continued Uploads• New Innovations

Contact Info:Carrie Wengert

PA DEP

400 Market Street

PO BOX 8467

Harrisburg, PA 17105-8467

717-772-5164

cwengert@state.pa.us

Questions?