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MassDEP demos revamped data portal; adds faster status refresh, chemical and ZIP searches
Summary
MassDEP's Enterprise Information Office demonstrated recent upgrades to its public data portal, including more frequent regulatory-status refreshes, a chemical search field, ZIP-code search, and improved filtering; attendees flagged address-search limitations and mapping limits for large cities.
At a Wayside Cleanup Advisory Committee meeting, MassDEP’s Enterprise Information Office (EIO) reviewed recent improvements to the department’s public data portal and asked advisory-committee users for prioritized feedback.
What EIO showed: Shannon Smith, director of the EIO, and Matt Cogliano from BWSC information technology described several practical updates: the portal now refreshes many regulatory-status fields nightly (cutting lag from hours to minutes), a chemical-name search (for example, "PFAS") is…
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