Facilities

Facilities are a physical or logical extent of data that share similar properties or sampling goals.

The primary facility in the AQuIA database is 21IOWA, where nearly all of the surface water monitoring data conducted by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources are stored.

Facility Code	Facility Name	Description
21IOWA	Iowa DNR Surface Water Monitoring Data	Data collected by the Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources Water Monitoring Section or one of its delegates.
IowaGW	Iowa DNR Groundwater Data	Data collected by the Iowa DNR's groundwater monitoring program or one of its delegates.
NonDNR	Non-Iowa DNR collected data	Data collected by agencies and organizations outside the purview of the Iowa DNR.
IFTM	Iowa Fish Tissue Monitoring	Biological tissue collected as part of the fish tissue monitoring program.