The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has completed the first phase of a project that will increase public access to millions of sampling records from its laboratories to the public.
In addition to the approximately 2.6 million records dating from 2002 that are now available, new samples from the department’s Environmental Services Program laboratory tests have a target of being posted to the Web within two business days of the samples being released to the program that ordered the tests.
The records now available to the public in LIMS, the Laboratory Information Management System, are from the department’s air, water and solid waste management programs.
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As required by law, Records that may be part of criminal or environmental enforcement investigations have been excluded from the online database.
In 2009, the ESP lab tested roughly 24,000 samples for about 336,000 compounds, chemicals or properties. What's included: Phase I of the project, completed in January 2010, includes all wastewater treatment, public drinking water and solid waste sampling done by the DNR lab from 2002 to present, except for those records involved in criminal investigations or which may be involved in environmental enforcement actions.
What's not included: The public side of LIMS is a multi-phase project. Phase II of the LIMS project involves posting of records from DNR's Hazardous Waste Management Program from 2002-present. We expect that work to be completed later in 2010. Also not included are samples that are not tested by DNR's lab, such as samples sent out to contract labs for tests unable to be completed in the DNR lab and samples that are submitted by third parties.
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