FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Anastasia Burton
Jim Hill
(406) 444-5355
(HELENA)---The Montana
Natural Resource Information System (NRIS), in cooperation with the Groundwater
Information Center (GWIC) of the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, has
announced a new enhancement of the GWIC wells coverage display on the NRIS
website.
NRIS Director Jim Hill
said, “We’ve added flags and data links to wells in the GWIC database which
have water quality data associated with them.
In the past, all wells were displayed using a single color, with links
provided to the individual well logs at the GWIC. With the new enhancement, wells are displayed in two colors --
those without any water quality data, and those with water quality data.”
For each well with water
quality data, a hyperlink is provided which takes visitors to the GWIC's online
'one page' water quality summary report for that well. Visit http://nris.mt.gov
and click on the “What’s New” link.
Hill added, “We hope our
website users will find this enhancement useful. NRIS will continue to pursue additional water quality information
which will be added to our website’s thematic mapper as part of an EPA grant we
have underway.” That data should become
available in the spring of 2002.
The Montana Natural Resource
Information System (NRIS) was established in 1985 by the Legislature. NRIS, a division of the State Library, acts
as a clearinghouse for natural resource information.
For more information,
contact Hill by calling (406) 444-5355 or e-mailing jimhill@mt.gov
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