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The Warehouse will display the
number of records resulting from your
search, and you will have the option
of choosing specific metadata (such as
water depth or collecting gear) to
download with the data file. Your file
is immediately available for download
as a tilde-delimited, flat ASCII text
file. Extensive instructions for all
features of the Warehouse, and defini-
tions of STORET terms, are available
by clicking on Help at the bottom  of
each page.

\s there a map interface
for the STORET
Warehouse?
Soon you will be able to access data
from the STORET Warehouse by      !	
creating maps using the EPA's Web-based geographic
information system (GIS) tools EnviroMapper for
Water and Window to My Environment. These
mapping tools dynamically display  information about
bodies of water in the United States and will allow
you to create customized maps that portray the
nation's surface waters along with a collection of
STORET monitoring data. EnviroMapper and
Window to My Environment may  be used to view
environmental information from the national level
down to the community level, and provide the ability
to pan, zoom, and identify map features.
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  How can I learn  more about the
  STORET Data Warehouse?
  For more information, visit the
  STORET Web site,
  www.epa.gov/STORET, or contact
  the EPA STORET assistance
  hotline at 1-800-424-9067, or
  at STORET@epa.gov.
Electronic copies of this document along with many
others are available online at www.epa.gov/STORET
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  Using your downloaded text file

After you click on Download your data now, from
the File menu choose Save As and save the file as
.txt on your computer. Follow these steps to open
the file in Microsoft Excel:
 1. Open a new Excel worksheet
 2. From the File menu choose Open.
 3. Use the Files of type drop-down menu to
   choose AD Files, then navigate to and select
   your file.
 4. The Text Import Wizard will guide you
   through the remaining steps:
   • Choose Delimited, then click Next.
   • Choose Other and enter a tilde [-] in the
      box, then click Next.
   • If you wish, specify Data Format for any or
      all fields, and click Finish.
                                                                          EPA841-F-03-012d, February 2004
                                                                   US EPA, MC 4503T, Washington, DC 20460

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