Docket 83 Second Interim Report 1968-08.pdf - International Joint ...

2%. ?'ha data centers should he established both on
side..; of thc border to facilitate exchange, processing,
and distribution of data and information for existing and
fut-urz studies.
Data centers have been established
of the border.
on both sides
2.11 water quality data collected by Canadian
federal. agencies have been stored in the Canadian Oceanographic
Data Centre. Meteorological data collected by th.e
Depaxtment of Transport are inccrpora.ted with data of that
department's Meteorological Branch.
Data collected by the U.S. Department of the
Interior's'Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
have been stored in their Storet system.
some data
ties, and
U.S. Lake
data in a
The Bureau of Corrmercial Fisheries is storing
in th.e Nat.iona1 Oceanographic Data Center facilisome
of its own form.at in its own facilities. The
Survey (Corps of Engireers) is Troposing to store
Great Lakes Data Center using Storet.
The Ontario water Resources Commission, in 1966,
developed its own dat.a storage system which is a modification
of Stoket. This system will-be expanded. in th.e future to be
compatible with syst.ems used by Canadian and U.S. federal
and state agencies.
The Great Lakes Institute of the University of
Toronto is storinq its Great Lakes data in the Canadian
Oceanographic Data Centre. The University of Michigan has
its own system, 2s does the University of Wisconsin.
Punch card, or rr,agneti.c tape data records can be
exchanged but the receiving agency or data centre nust develop
its own program to ccmpile data in a form suitable for its own
computer facilities.
The need for data exchange prorrpted tb.e Conference
of State Sanitary Engineers (attenGed. by representatives of
the States of New York and Pennsylvania) to establish a Joint
Committee on Water Quality Management. Data. The purpose of the
Committee is to develop uniform procedures for the storage,
collection, and processing of data to facilitate exchange of
such data among interested agencies. Other participants include
the Associa.tion of the State and Interstate Water POllUtiOI?
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