Purpose

This page documents known data sources that issue unique identifiers

Public Water Suppliers

The following IDs are issued by the state agencies to uniquely identify a Public Water Supplier

PWS ID

NMED issues the identifiers out of the SDWIS database (currently managed by Daniel Ramirez)

OSE ID

OSE provides the permit to use the water. They issue the OSE ID (funky text string, like RG-09843...)

Wells

The following State/Federal issue unique (local) identifiers to identify a well (location?)

State Agencies

OSE

 issues a unique identifier for wells

OSE initiated aa former project on UniqueID for every well in the state. EnvDept, OSE, and USGS crosswalks. Gar can send us the reports/excel sheets. Funding need exists to push this work forward

·         OSE: Well-tagging program from ~Fall 2018 for new production wells (e.g., domestic, livestock, irrigation, commercial-use wells).  Non-production wells are not tagged, e.g., monitoring wells, piezometers, etc. Tags are alpha-numeric and entered into WATERS.  Tag is either a barcode or QR code on the tag, but the agency does not have a way to use them yet. The tags are provided for by a Department of Health grant.

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EMNRD

uses the API number for well identificaton which is a unique identifier tied to the county FIPS code

NMENV

Do not have any kind of unique identifier for entities (i.e. wells) outside of a database row ID

Federal Agencies

DOE

  DOE has their own unique IDs as well: see web application - https://gems.lm.doe.gov/#site=APC