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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) National Coastal Database

Published by U.S. EPA Office of Research & Development (ORD) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2014-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) National Coastal Database contains estuarine and coastal data that EMAP and Regional-EMAP have collected since 1990 from thousands of stations along the U.S. coasts. These data include water column data, sediment contaminants and toxicity data, and benthic macroinvertebrate and demersal fish community and contaminant data.

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