Facility
A non-ambient location where environmental measurements are expected to be strongly influenced by current or previous activities of humans. *Sites identified with a "facility" primary site type must be further classified with one of the applicable secondary site types.
Facility Sites
Adapted from USGS Site Types.
http://wdr.water.usgs.gov/nwisgmap/help/sitetype.html
ODM2 SiteType Controlled Vocabulary
ODM2 Working Group
A vocabulary for describing the type of a data collection Site. To some extent, these types represent the ultimate feature of interest that the site was established to measure. For example, a Stream Site was established to measure properties of a Stream.