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Data used to model and map arsenic concentration exceedances in private wells throughout the conterminous United States for human health studies

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1970
End Date
2013

Citation

Lombard, M.A., 2021, Data used to model and map arsenic concentration exceedances in private wells throughout the conterminous United States for human health studies: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P90RBJXS.

Summary

This data release contains data used to develop models and maps that estimate the probabilities of exceeding various thresholds of arsenic concentrations in private domestic wells throughout the conterminous United States. Three boosted regression tree (BRT) models were developed separately to estimate the probability of private well arsenic concentrations exceeding 1, 5, and 10 micrograms per liter (µg/L). A random forest (RF) model was developed to estimate the most probable arsenic concentration category (≤5, >5 to ≤10, or >10 µg/L). The models use arsenic concentration data from private domestic wells located throughout the conterminous United States and independent variables that are available as geospatial data. The models were [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Melissa A Lombard
Originator :
Melissa A Lombard
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
New England Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Map_Input_Data.zip 400.31 MB application/zip
Map_Output_Data.zip 428.81 MB application/zip
AsModelInput.csv 5.85 MB text/csv
Model_input_sources.csv 2.59 KB text/csv
Model_input_definitions.csv 17.2 KB text/csv

Purpose

These datasets were assembled to develop models to estimate the probabilities of exceeding various thresholds of arsenic concentrations in private wells throughout the conterminous United States and to use those models to make maps of these estimates. The maps that were produced can be used as a tool in public health studies to assess exposure to arsenic from private wells.

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