Changes in version 0.11.0 (2026-05-14)                 

  - Adds new lc_get_watershed function to return a lake watershed as an
    sf feature for a LakeCat (NHDPlusV2 Waterbody) COMID from an
    S3-hosted, HUC2-partitioned GeoParquet dataset
  - Uses optional HUC2 query as well as retries, multi-threading and
    duckdb to speed up retrieval of spatial data from AWS S3 bucket

                 Changes in version 0.10.0 (2026-01-30)                 

  - Adds new functions sc_get_nni() and lc_get_nni() for ease of access
    to National Nutrient Inventory data in StreamCat
  - Adds new functions sc_plot() and lc_plot for plotting nitrogen and
    phosphorus budgets for watersheds
  - Adds a new article describing functions for plotting National
    Nutrient Inventory data in StreamCat

                 Changes in version 0.9.1 (2025-10-25)                  

  - Handles a web service being down in testing using
    testthat::skip_on_cran()
  - Converts most vignettes to articles and adds one new Start Here
    vignette =======

  - Handles a web service being down in testing using
    testthat::skip_on_cran()
  - Converts most vignettes to articles and adds one new Start Here
    vignette

                 Changes in version 0.9.0 (2025-10-15)                  

  - Addresses CRAN error generated by tests that is
  - Adds tryCatch handling for functions calling web services in order
    to fail gracefully and not produce errors
  - Adds documentation to vignettes for two new functions added to the
    package

                 Changes in version 0.8.0 (2025-10-09)                  

  - Added code coverage to the package
  - Added two new functions - sc_get_metric_names and
    lc_get_metric_names to make metric names and descriptions more
    searchable and slightly updated parameters in both sc_get_params and
    lc_get_params functions
  - Both sc_get_data and lc_get_data now accept vectors as well as
    comma- separated strings for the metric, state, county and region
    parameters

                 Changes in version 0.7.0 (2025-09-15)                  

  - Updated both sc_get_data and lc_get_data to pass parameters in POST
    request body rather than header, providing ability to pass lengthy
    lists of COMIDS to those requests
  - Fixed a bug in package tests that was causing an error when running
    testthat

                 Changes in version 0.6.0 (2025-09-02)                  

  - Added functionality in sc_get_data and lc_get_data to accommodate
    large numbers (e.g. > 700) COMIDs in header for POST request

                        Changes in version 0.5.0                        

  - Overhauled sc_get_data and lc_get_data functions to be able to pull
    all metrics from StreamCat or LakeCat for an area of interest
  - Updated sc_get_data and lc_get_data to be able to pass hundreds of
    COMIDs at a time as a function parameter and not error out in call
    to server
  - Updated sc_get_params and lc_get_params to now return variable
    information, as well as just metric names and full names, and return
    tables of state and county abbreviations, names and FIPS codes

                        Changes in version 0.4.0                        

  - Overhauled all functions to use the new api.epa.gov endpoints for
    StreamCat described in swagger documentation
  - Streamlined sc_get_data and lc_get_data requests with httr2
  - Adopted functionality in all package functions to use the Oracle
    ORDs Database REST API rather than previous JAVA REST service

                        Changes in version 0.3.0                        

  - Incorporated POST requests in httr2 requests to deal with many
    COMIDs in requests
  - Added documentation to vignette for working with LakeCat data in the
    package

                        Changes in version 0.2.0                        

  - Added LakeCat functions to the package:
      - lc_get_data
      - lc_get_params
  - Changed lifecycle to stable

                     Changes in version 0.1.1.9002                      

  - Fixed sc_get_data to pass COMIDs to function more robustly
  - Added sc_nlcd helper function to more easily grab NLCD based metrics
    from StreamCat
  - Updated package documentation

                     Changes in version 0.1.1.9001                      

  - API is publicly released and the package works now for everyone (not
    just those inside EPA network)

                     Changes in version 0.1.1.9000                      

  - Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.