What is the easiest way to create all of the toxics monitors at a site?
The easiest way is to extract data for an existing site, modify the data so that it correctly describes your site, and then load it. Here’s a step by step description: First, find a site that has the same or similar monitors (pollutants and methods) as yours. You may do this by asking someone familiar with the monitors in your agency or someone in another agency you know already has toxics sites established. If you don’t have any leads, you can query the AQS system to find a site set up similar to yours. You can do this in the “Maintain” forms or using the Monitor Description report (AMP 390) and for the “pollutant type” selection choosing CORE_HAPS or the appropriate SPECIATION that you need. Note that the monitor description report will be very long for toxics sites, since it makes a page for each parameter, but it runs fast. Just think about looking at it on-line versus printing it out. Also note that the newer the site, the better off you will be since the later it was created the
