<metadata>
  <idinfo>
    <citation>
      <citeinfo>
        <origin>Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology (MBMG)</origin>
        <pubdate>20121228</pubdate>
        <title>Montana Groundwater Information Center Water Well Data, 2012</title>
        <pubinfo>
          <pubplace>Helena, Montana</pubplace>
          <publish>Montana State Library</publish>
        </pubinfo>
        <othercit>The former name of this data set on the NRIS web site was "gwicwells"</othercit>
        <lworkcit>
          <citeinfo>
            <title>Montana Groundwater Information Center Water Well Data</title>
            <onlink>http://mslapps.mt.gov/Geographic_Information/Data/DataList/datalist_Details.aspx?did={B40FCBD4-DA34-483A-A8C9-F9C1E95F7A21}</onlink>
          </citeinfo>
        </lworkcit>
      </citeinfo>
    </citation>
    <descript>
      <abstract>This data set contains point locations and selected attributes for water wells within Montana abstracted from databases maintained at the Ground-Water Information Center (GWIC) at the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology. Original data sources include water rights filings, water well logs, visits to water wells, and publications of the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, the U.S. Geological Survey, and others. The databases are maintained at the Ground-Water Information Center.  Ground-water site locations and selected fields are forwarded annually to the State Library.

Fields provided in this data set are a subset of the fields available in the database at the GWIC. Additional data for ground-water resources in Montana can be obtained from the GWIC website at http://mbmggwic.mtech.edu.</abstract>
      <purpose>Data from GWIC are useful for describing the ground-water resources of Montana, land use planning, determination of drilling depths, and understanding ground-water flow.</purpose>
    </descript>
    <timeperd>
      <timeinfo>
        <rngdates>
          <begdate>1860</begdate>
          <enddate>20121217</enddate>
        </rngdates>
      </timeinfo>
      <current>ground condition</current>
    </timeperd>
    <status>
      <progress>Current with receipts of new water well logs</progress>
      <update>The GWIC database is active and thousands of data corrections and thousands of new well logs are added to the system annually.  Updates of the database are forwarded annually to the State Library.</update>
    </status>
    <spdom>
      <bounding>
        <westbc>-116.161605</westbc>
        <eastbc>-103.646459</eastbc>
        <northbc>49.136945</northbc>
        <southbc>44.356602</southbc>
      </bounding>
    </spdom>
    <keywords>
      <theme>
        <themekt>ISO 19115 Topic Category</themekt>
        <themekey>inlandWaters</themekey>
        <themekey>geoscientificInformation</themekey>
      </theme>
      <theme>
        <themekey>wells</themekey>
        <themekey>well</themekey>
        <themekey>ground water</themekey>
        <themekey>ground-water</themekey>
        <themekey>groundwater</themekey>
      </theme>
      <place>
        <placekey>Montana</placekey>
      </place>
    </keywords>
    <accconst>None</accconst>
    <useconst>These data are currently intended to provide information on the distribution of wells in general rather than the locations of specific wells.  Most of the well locations are derived from 1:250,000 scale maps and individual well identities should not be shown at map scales larger than this.

Well data is updated continually at GWIC, and individual records at the State Library may be obsolete.  Current data for any well, or updated data sets, can be obtained directly from the GWIC website at http://mbmggwic.mtech.edu.

The Montana State Library provides this product/service for informational purposes only. The Library did not produce it for, nor is it suitable for legal, engineering, or surveying purposes. Consumers of this information should review or consult the primary data and information sources to ascertain the viability of the information for their purposes. The Library provides these data in good faith but does not represent or warrant its accuracy, adequacy, or completeness. In no event shall the Library be liable for any incorrect results or analysis; any direct, indirect, special, or consequential damages to any party; or any lost profits arising out of or in connection with the use or the inability to use the data or the services provided. The Library makes these data and services available as a convenience to the public, and for no other purpose. The Library reserves the right to change or revise published data and/or services at any time.</useconst>
    <ptcontac>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntorgp>
          <cntorg>Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology</cntorg>
          <cntper>Thomas Patton</cntper>
        </cntorgp>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>mailing address</addrtype>
          <address>1300 West Park Street</address>
          <city>Butte</city>
          <state>MT</state>
          <postal>59701</postal>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>406-496-4153</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>tpatton@mtech.edu</cntemail>
      </cntinfo>
    </ptcontac>
    <browse>
      <browsen>ftp://ftp.geoinfo.msl.mt.gov/Documents/Maps/Thumbnails/20031113_424_thumb.jpg</browsen>
    </browse>
    <browse>
      <browsen>gwic.gif</browsen>
    </browse>
  </idinfo>
  <dataqual>
    <attracc>
      <attraccr>New well log data are entered into the database from original documents and verified one time during the data entry process. Historic data are verified against historic documents on a county by county basis. Due to work loads, well records for all Montana counties have not been verified against the original documents. To view the current status of verification, go to the On-Line Help section of the GWIC website at http://mbmggwic.mtech.edu.</attraccr>
    </attracc>
    <complete>Well locations in GWIC do not represent the locations of all water wells in Montana.  Although the total number of water wells constructed in the state is unknown, GWIC locations are thought to represent 50-60% of all water wells.</complete>
    <posacc>
      <horizpa>
        <horizpar>Unless otherwise noted in the GWIC database by the presence of a site visit record, coordinates are derived from unverified locations provided by the landowner or water well driller.  Significant errors in location occur in the unverified data.  Points with verified locations are generally within about 10 of feet of their true position.  The GEOMETHOD attribute indicates how the coordinates were obtained and are an indicator of the positional accuracy of each point.

The meaning of commonly used GEOMETHOD codes are as follows:
-- TRS-TWN:  generated from township, range, section, and tract using township corners digitized by the U.S. Geological Survey in the 1970s from 1:250,000 scale maps.
-- TRS-SEC:  generated from township, range, section, and tract using section corners digitized from 1:24,000 maps.
-- NAV-GPS:  uncorrected Global Positioning System locations.
-- SURGPS:  corrected Global Positioning System locations.
-- MAP:      digitized from 1:24,000 USGS Topographic maps

NAV-GPS, SUR-GPS, and MAP represent confirmed locations.  TRS-SEC and TRS-TWN represent unconfirmed locations if the number of tract designations in the TRACT field is less than 4 and there is no site visit record in the GWIC database.  A complete description of the GEOMETHOD flags can be found in the On-Line Help section of the GWIC website at http://mbmggwic.mtech.edu.

The coordinates for the majority of the wells were obtained with the TRS-TWN method.  Coordinates in selected counties (Flathead, Lake, Mineral, Missoula, Ravalli, Yellowstone, and Treasure) were obtained using the TRS-SEC method.  However, in both cases the greatest source of horizontal error is the original landowner/water well driller's ability to correctly fill out the township, range, section, and tract description.

Coordinates converted from township, range, section, and tract descriptions generally fall within the boundaries of the smallest described tract.  Section based conversions are more accurate than township based conversions because the section corners used in section based conversions have been digitized, and not interpolated from township corners.</horizpar>
      </horizpa>
    </posacc>
    <lineage>
      <srcinfo>
        <srccite>
          <citeinfo>
            <origin>Ground-Water Assessment Program at the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology</origin>
            <pubdate>20121217</pubdate>
            <title>Montana Ground-Water Information Center Water well log data</title>
            <pubinfo>
              <pubplace>Butte</pubplace>
              <publish>Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology</publish>
            </pubinfo>
          </citeinfo>
        </srccite>
        <typesrc>paper records</typesrc>
        <srctime>
          <timeinfo>
            <rngdates>
              <begdate>1860</begdate>
              <enddate>20121217</enddate>
            </rngdates>
          </timeinfo>
          <srccurr>ground condition</srccurr>
        </srctime>
        <srccitea>GWIC</srccitea>
        <srccontr>The data set was generated from this source.</srccontr>
      </srcinfo>
      <procstep>
        <procdesc>Water well log data are entered into the GWIC database from original paper documents and verified to match original data during the data entry process. Some well records are created from visits to wells discovered during field work by various projects at the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology. For well records created from site visits, there will be no paper well log at the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology and the database will only contain information discovered during the field visit. The database is corrected when errors are discovered through use of data or by outside data users.</procdesc>
      </procstep>
      <procstep>
        <procdesc>Coordinates are assigned to GWIC records using a variety of methods as described by the GEOMETHOD flag in the data retrieval. See the description of common GEOMETHOD flags used in GWIC in the Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report section of this document.

TRS-TWN and TRS-SEC based coordinates are calculated automatically at the time a record is first filed or the location is modified. MAP, NAV-GPS, and SUR-GPS coordinates are posted to the database and remained unchanged until an error may be discovered. At that time corrected coordinates for the point would be entered into the database and the township, range, section and tract modified to match the digitized or GPS coordinates.</procdesc>
      </procstep>
    </lineage>
  </dataqual>
  <spdoinfo>
    <ptvctinf>
      <sdtsterm>
        <sdtstype>Entity point</sdtstype>
        <ptvctcnt>231808</ptvctcnt>
      </sdtsterm>
    </ptvctinf>
  </spdoinfo>
  <spref>
    <horizsys>
      <planar>
        <gridsys>
          <gridsysn>State Plane Coordinate System</gridsysn>
          <spcs>
            <spcszone>2500</spcszone>
            <lambertc>
              <stdparll>45.000000</stdparll>
              <stdparll>49.000000</stdparll>
              <longcm>-109.500000</longcm>
              <latprjo>44.250000</latprjo>
              <feast>600000.000000</feast>
              <fnorth>0.000000</fnorth>
            </lambertc>
          </spcs>
        </gridsys>
        <planci>
          <plandu>meters</plandu>
        </planci>
      </planar>
      <geodetic>
        <horizdn>North American Datum of 1983</horizdn>
        <ellips>Geodetic Reference System 80</ellips>
        <semiaxis>6378137.000000</semiaxis>
        <denflat>298.257222</denflat>
      </geodetic>
    </horizsys>
  </spref>
  <eainfo>
    <detailed>
      <enttyp>
        <enttypl>GWIC_Wells_20121228.dbf</enttypl>
        <enttypd>Point feature class</enttypd>
      </enttyp>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>FID</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Shapefile sequence number</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>Shape</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Feature geometry</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>MNUMBER</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Unique number that links all GWIC records together</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>DNRC_NO</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Water right number assigned to well/site by the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>SITE_NAME</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Name of the well/site.  Most often the name of the land owner for whom the well was originally drilled</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>LATITUDE</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Latitude of well/site</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>LONGITUDE</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Longitude of well/site</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>GEOMETHOD</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Method used to determine the latitude and longitude</attrdef>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>TRS-TWN</edomv>
            <edomvd>generated from township, range, section, and tract using township corners digitized by the U.S. Geological Survey in the 1970s from 1:250,000 scale maps</edomvd>
          </edom>
          <edom>
            <edomv>TRS-SEC</edomv>
            <edomvd>generated from township, range, section, and tract using section corners digitized from 1:24,000 maps</edomvd>
          </edom>
          <edom>
            <edomv>NAV-GPS</edomv>
            <edomvd>uncorrected Global Positioning System locations</edomvd>
          </edom>
          <edom>
            <edomv>SUR-GPS</edomv>
            <edomvd>corrected Global Positioning System locations</edomvd>
          </edom>
          <edom>
            <edomv>MAP</edomv>
            <edomvd>digitized from 1:24,000 USGS Topographic maps</edomvd>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>DATUM</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Geodetic datum for the latitude and longitude</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>TOWNSHIP</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Township number of the public land survey township in which the well/site is located</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>RANGE</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Range number of the public land survey township in which the well/site is located</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>ISP_SECT</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Public land survey section number in which the well is located</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>TRACT</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The tracts (from largest to smallest) that describe the location of the well/site within the section</attrdef>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>A</edomv>
            <edomvd>Northeast</edomvd>
          </edom>
          <edom>
            <edomv>B</edomv>
            <edomvd>Northwest</edomvd>
          </edom>
          <edom>
            <edomv>C</edomv>
            <edomvd>Southwest</edomvd>
          </edom>
          <edom>
            <edomv>D</edomv>
            <edomvd>Southeast</edomvd>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>COUNTY</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>County in Montana where the well/site is located</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>TYPE</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Whether the site is a water well, petroleum well, borehole, spring, or other site type</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>TOT_DEPT</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Total depth of the well in feet</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>PWL</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The distance in feet below land surface the water is found during pumping</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>SWL</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The distance in feet below land surface the water is found when the well is not pumping</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>RECOV_WL</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The "recovery" water level (in feet below casing top) measured by the driller after a production test has been completed</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>YIELD</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The reported yield of the well in gallons per minute</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>TEST_TYPE</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The method by which the yield was determined</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>TEST_DUR</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The duration of the performance test in hours</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>RECOV_TM</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The length of time in hours after production stopped that the recovery water level was measured</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>DRILLSET</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The distance in feet below ground surface that the drill stem was placed during a production test using air to lift the water from the well</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>WHO_DRILL</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The name of the well driller or contractor</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>LIC_NO</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The water well driller or water well contractor license number</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>COMP_DATE</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The date that the well was completed</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>PWS_ID</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>A number consisting of the Department of Environmental Quality's identifier for a public water supply (5 digits) concatenated with the source number for the well/site in the public water supply (3 digits)</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>GWSI_ID</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>A 15 digit number that is the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Information System identifier for the well/site</attrdef>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>DATA_SOUR</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The source of data for the GWIC record</attrdef>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>GW4</edomv>
            <edomvd>Declaration of Vested Groundwater Rights</edomvd>
          </edom>
          <edom>
            <edomv>LOG</edomv>
            <edomvd>Drillers log</edomvd>
          </edom>
          <edom>
            <edomv>INV</edomv>
            <edomvd>Visit to the well/site by personnel from the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, the U.S. Geological Survey, or other agency</edomvd>
          </edom>
          <edom>
            <edomv>QW</edomv>
            <edomvd>Visit to well/site by personnel from the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, or other agency to collect a water sample</edomvd>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>WQDATA</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Flag indicating whether GWIC has water quality data available for the well</attrdef>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>Y</edomv>
            <edomvd>Water quality data is available</edomvd>
          </edom>
          <edom>
            <edomv>N</edomv>
            <edomvd>Water quality data is not available</edomvd>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>HYDROGRAPH</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Flag indicating whether GWIC has hydrograph data available for the well</attrdef>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>Y</edomv>
            <edomvd>Hydrograph data is available</edomvd>
          </edom>
          <edom>
            <edomv>N</edomv>
            <edomvd>Hydrograph data is not available</edomvd>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
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        <cntorgp>
          <cntorg>Montana State Library</cntorg>
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        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>mailing address</addrtype>
          <address>PO Box 201800</address>
          <city>Helena</city>
          <state>MT</state>
          <postal>59620-1800</postal>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>406-444-5354</cntvoice>
        <cnttdd>406-444-4799</cnttdd>
        <cntfax>406-444-0266</cntfax>
        <cntemail>geoinfo@mt.gov</cntemail>
      </cntinfo>
    </distrib>
    <resdesc>Offline Data</resdesc>
    <distliab>The Montana State Library provides this product/service for informational purposes only. The Library did not produce it for, nor is it suitable for legal, engineering, or surveying purposes. Consumers of this information should review or consult the primary data and information sources to ascertain the viability of the information for their purposes. The Library provides these data in good faith but does not represent or warrant its accuracy, adequacy, or completeness. In no event shall the Library be liable for any incorrect results or analysis; any direct, indirect, special, or consequential damages to any party; or any lost profits arising out of or in connection with the use or the inability to use the data or the services provided. The Library makes these data and services available as a convenience to the public, and for no other purpose. The Library reserves the right to change or revise published data and/or services at any time.</distliab>
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          <cntorg>Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology</cntorg>
          <cntper>Thomas Patton</cntper>
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        <cntpos>Program Leader, Montana Ground-Water Assessment Program</cntpos>
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          <addrtype>mailing address</addrtype>
          <address>1300 West Park Street</address>
          <city>Butte</city>
          <state>MT</state>
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