Problematic MultiPolygon Responses from CINERGI

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Starting an issue here to track (eventually ...) a problem with CINERGI responses we found way back in August. Here's the email from Terence (Azavea) from August 9. I was supposed to follow up but never did.

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Here are a few of the multi-polygon responses from the CINERGI API that span areas outside their claimed study interest:

• b1ca861ce6634ff09ee9ae7c0efd359b - Water resources data, Virginia, water year 2004 volume 2. Ground-water-level and ground-water-quality records
• 7865d637ac8e4f9595d9d5c4f3b185f3 - Relations of Surface-Water Quality to Streamflow in the Atlantic Coastal, Lower Delaware River, and Delaware Bay Basins, New Jersey, Water Years 1976-93
• e7f294bc9f32426580acd1368709b6d8 - Drought-trigger ground-water levels and analysis of historical water-level trends in Chester County, Pennsylvania
• 34f0cb2847e048cd80f04b9bf1037d5c - Water resources data Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C., water year 2005, Volume 2. Ground-water data
• d2d8c0f4a980474da70d0c00cf6f0b11 - Water resources data Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C., water year 2004, Volume 2. Ground-water data
• 54a050dd5f3c49d48ae0e9781f629c62 - Elmer Water Co.
• 8abe2a0c354c40f09c2c1483702ccbd9 - A science plan for a comprehensive assessment of water supply in the region underlain by fractured rock in Maryland
• b5f7f48058f4487195a88be344fa49d5 - Ground-water and surface-water flow and estimated water budget for Lake Seminole, southwestern Georgia and northwestern Florida
• 07374ef6ba0145aeb6f5b39937be792e - Historical ground-water-flow patterns and trends in iron concentrations in the Potomac--Raritan--Magothy aquifer system in parts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden and Gloucester Counties, New Jersey
• 03d6ef0814a94fe2bfb6e37724fe0a4b - Delineation of areas contributing recharge to selected public-supply wells in Glacial Valley-Fill and Wetland Settings, Rhode Island
• c311d39dd73a44d48b9ab814907176fa - Altitude and configuration of the potentiometric surface in the crystalline and metasedimentary rocks in Valley and West Brandywine townships, Chester County, Pennsylvania, May 1992 through August 1993

You can also run a search for “water” on https://staging.portal.bigcz.org/ with the Philadelphia-Schuylkill HUC-10 and scroll down the results to see far parts of the globe lighting up.