EIM submit data
Ecology partners, submit your environmental monitoring data to EIM online, including:
- Cleanup sites (VCP, formal, corrective action)
- Ecology grant and loan recipients
- Landfill groundwater monitoring
- NEP grants (some)
- NPDES receiving water studies
- Sediments (including bioassays)
- Stormwater (SAM, municipal permit)
- Water quality data for 303(d) and 305(b) Clean Water Act (CWA) assessment
- Biosolids monitoring
Don't submit DMR permit-related data to EIM (see Water Quality Web Portal).
You should already be working with Ecology to submit data to EIM. Exception: you can submit CWA assessment data any time.
Unsure if you should submit your data to EIM? Contact the EIM Team.
Make an EIM Loader account; follow these steps
(For detailed instructions, download How to Submit Data to EIM).
Go to SecureAccess Washington (SAW)
- Make a new SAW account.with your WORK email address.
OR
- Log into existing SAW account. Don't use a personal SAW account - make one with your WORK email address.
Link to EIM Loader from SAW
Add EIM Loader service. Select:
- Add a New Service button
- Department of Ecology from the agency list
- EIM Loader from the service name list
- Apply button
Link your SAW account to EIM Loader. Select:
- My Secure Services tab
- EIM Loader from your services
Make a user profile in EIM Loader
- Select Make a User Profile and follow instructions. If your organization isn't in EIM, make a new EIM organization account first.
Submit your data: basic steps
Need help? Contact your EIM data coordinator, assigned when you made your Loader account. Also, visit the EIM Help Center or contact the EIM Team.
- If you are new or need a refresher, watch the EIM training videos
- Download and follow How to Submit Data to EIM or How to Submit Time-Series Data to EIM
- Download data entry templates and template help documents
- Log into EIM Loader
- Enter study information into form in Loader
- Enter data into templates
- Submit completed templates
- Work with your EIM data coordinator to finalize your submittal
- Receive notice of completion