Download Enterococcus data from the Water Quality Portal

Usage

read_importentero(stas = NULL, startDate, endDate)

Arguments

stas: character, a vector of stations. If NULL, defaults to all stations in catchprecip.
startDate: character, starting date of observations as YYYY-MM-DD
endDate: character, ending date of observations as YYYY-MM-DD

Value

a data frame containing one row for each sample. Columns returned are:

date: date, sample date
yr: numeric, year of sample date
mo: numeric, month of sample date
time: character, sample time
time_zone: character, sample time zone
long_name: character, long name of bay segment subwatershed
bay_segment: character, short name of bay segment subwatershed
station: character, sample station
entero: numeric, Enterococcus concentration
entero_censored: logical, whether entero value was below the laboratory MDL, minimum detection limit
MDL: numeric, minimum detection limit at the time of processing
entero_units: character, units of measurement for entero
qualifier: qualifier codes associated with sample
LabComments: lab comments on sample
Latitude: numeric, latitude in decimal degrees
Longitude: numeric, longitude in decimal degrees

Details

Retrieves Enterococcus sample data from selected stations and date range from the Water Quality Portal, https://www.waterqualitydata.us

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# stations to download
stas <- c('21FLHILL_WQX-101',
'21FLHILL_WQX-102',
'21FLHILL_WQX-103')

# download and read the data
entero_in <- read_importentero(stas = stas, startDate = '2023-01-01', endDate = '2023-02-01')

head(entero_in)

} # }