FY2024 ECHO Use

Major ECHO Transparency Features Released or Updated

  • Water Pollutant Loading Tool: Benchmark Threshold Exceedances Integrated into DMR Exceedances Search
  • Compliance Pipeline View added for RCRA: Helps users understand how violations relate to compliance monitoring (i.e., what was the violation discovery activity?) and enforcement (i.e., what violations did enforcement actions address?).
  • Corporate Compliance Screener: Users can now save custom search criteria making it easier for companies to track activities at facilities they own.
  • Water Quality Indicators Tool Public Release: Integrates and standardizes surface water monitoring data to screen water monitoring data more easily.

ECHO Usage Highlights

  • Pageviews: Increased by 40% over FY2023.
  • Web services: Popular with Developers, recording 10.7 million hits
  • ECHO Data Visualization Gallery: 35,000 visits, with 22,000 specifically for PFAS Analytic Tools.
  • Top 5 most popular features in FY2024:
    1. Detailed Facility Report
    2. Facility Search Results
    3. Report Environmental Violations
    4. Facility Search
    5. Enforcement Case Search
       
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