Over time the accessibility and processes used for the collection of water monitoring data has changed. The days of transcription from laboratory reports are becoming minimal and electronic data files from comprehensive databases are becoming more commonplace, which requires new approaches for data reproducibility and documentation. Over the past decade, water monitoring data have been collected under the “spirit of the GLPs” in its documentation, reproducibility, and archival. While all aspects of the GLP program are not required, critical steps throughout the data collection and processing follow the underlying principles of the GLPs. As more electronic data were collected from a variety of sources, the process of how to standardize these data increased in complexity. Challenges such as data transformation, traceability, and connections to historic data needed to be addressed to ensure data quality and to answer questions from regulators. In addition, we have continued to enhance our data processing protocols to ensure consistency in data handling, analysis, and documentation of uncertainty. For studies in which GLPs are not necessarily required by a sponsor, we explore an approach of operating under the “spirit of the GLPs” to ensure that monitoring data processes and summarization are repeatable, traceable and provide confidence around electronic data processing and archival similar to those electronic data collected under GLP programs.

Collection of water monitoring data: Working in the spirit of GLPs

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