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Extracting NCDENR Benthic Taxonomic Data from STORET

Step 1. Go here: http://ofmpub.epa.gov/storpubl/dw_pages.querycriteria
Step 2. Select Geographic Location.
There are several options here. If restricting by county, first select NORTH CAROLINA for the State Name, then
press [Look Up] to select from the county names displayed (you can hold down [Ctrl] to select more than one
county from the list).
Restricting by 8-digit HUC is also useful. Click [Look Up] then select from the list (in HUC code order). HUCs
represented in North Carolina are:
HUC_8 HU_8_NAME

HUC_8 HU_8_NAME
03010102
John H Kerr Reservoir-Roanoke
River

03040101 Yadkin River Headwaters
03010103 Dan River Headwaters

03040102 South Yadkin River
03010104 Dan River

03040103 Yadkin River
03010106 Lake Gaston-Roanoke River

03040104 Lake Tillery-Pee Dee River
03010107 Roanoke River

03040105 Rocky River
03010201 Nottoway River

03040201 Pee Dee River
03010203 Chowan River

03040202 Lynches River
03010204 Meherrin River

03040203 Lumber River
03010205 Albemarle Sound

03040204 Little Pee Dee River
03020101 Tar River Headwaters

03040206 Waccamaw River
03020102 Fishing Creek

03040208 Long Bay-Atlantic Ocean
03020103 Tar River

03050101 Catawba River Headwaters
03020104 Pamlico River

03050102 South Fork Catawba River
03020105 Pamlico Sound

03050103 Catawba River
03020201 Upper Neuse River

03050105 Upper Broad River
03020202 Middle Neuse River

03060101 Seneca River
03020203 Contentnea Creek

03060102 Tugaloo River
03020204 Lower Neuse River

05050001 Upper New River
03020301 White Oak River

06010103 Watauga River
03020302 New River

06010105 French Broad River
03030002 Haw River

06010106 Pigeon River
03030003 Deep River

06010108 Nolichucky River
03030004 Little River-Cape Fear River

06010202 Little Tennessee River
03030005 Cape Fear River

06010203 Tuckasegee River
03030006 Black River

06010204 Lower Little Tennessee River
03030007 Northeast Cape Fear River

06020002 Hiwassee River

Be sure that the radio button for the option you are using has been selected (over on the left side of the
window).

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Step 3. Select Organizations.
Go to Option 2 under Organization, Station & Project. Enter NCDENR in the Organization Search box, then click
on [Search]. Four entries should result. Click on the first entry, then hold down [Shift] and click on the last entry.
This will highlight the four entries. Hit [Select]. The result should look like this:


Step 4. Select Date Range.
Go to the section Date, Administrative Filters. This part should be straight-forward. If you want all records for a
given area, dont enter anything to this section.
Step 4. Select Community Sampled.
Go to the section Activity Intent and Community Sampled. In the box on the right select Benthic
Macroinvertebrates.
Step 5. Go to the bottom of the page and click on [Result Download].

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Step 6. A new page will open. The only part that needs to be filled out is this:

Finish. If you select immediate processing you should get two messages fairly quickly. The second message of the two
will give a link to a zip file that can be downloaded. There will be two files in there; you want the BioResults.
Once extracted, open that text file in Excel (it is a tab delimited file).
There will be a bunch of fields there you wont need. The most important ones are: Station ID, Station Latitude,
Station Longitude, Activity Start (the sample date), Subject Taxon, and Result Value as Text.