Water Monitoring Stations

Water monitoring stations used by the EPA and Local Authorities are registered on EDEN Monitoring Data System by an application called the Feature Coding Tool (FCT). This tool applies a unique code to river, lake, transitional, coastal or Groundwater stations registered on it.美国环境保护署（EPA）与地方主管部门所使用的水体监测站，需通过一款名为特征编码工具（Feature Coding Tool，FCT）的应用程序，在EDEN监测数据系统完成注册。该工具会为注册至该系统的河流、湖泊、过渡水域、沿海及地下水监测站分配唯一标识码。