diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ca6038f..c5d4262 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: tidyhydat
 Title: Extract and Tidy Canadian 'Hydrometric' Data
-Version: 0.7.1
+Version: 0.7.1.9000
 Authors@R: c(person("Sam", "Albers", email = "sam.albers@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
     comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9270-7884")),
     person("David", "Hutchinson", email = "david.hutchinson@canada.ca", role = "ctb"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index d5810e3..86e244e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# tidyhydat 0.7.1.9000
+- fixed a bug where `param_id` internal data wasnt' being accessed correctly (#224)
+
 # tidyhydat 0.7.1
 - add columns added by a webservice update (#213)
 - fix some partial matching in `realtime_add_local_datetime` internals
diff --git a/R/realtime-webservice.R b/R/realtime-webservice.R
index f3b7441..cf02573 100755
--- a/R/realtime-webservice.R
+++ b/R/realtime-webservice.R
@@ -70,14 +70,14 @@ realtime_ws <- function(
 ) {
   if (is.null(parameters)) parameters <- c(46, 16, 52, 47, 8, 5, 41, 18)
 
-  if (any(!parameters %in% param_id$Parameter)) {
+  if (any(!parameters %in% tidyhydat::param_id$Parameter)) {
     stop(
       paste0(
         paste0(
           parameters[!parameters %in% tidyhydat::param_id$Parameter],
           collapse = ","
         ),
-        " are invalid parameters. Check param_id for a list of valid options."
+        " are invalid parameters. Check tidyhydat::param_id for a list of valid options."
       ),
       call. = FALSE
     )