Lake Travis: A GIS Study Bridget Wadzuk November 28, 2000
Outline Purpose Land Use Lake System Conclusions Future Work
Purpose Processes of Lake Travis Application Land Use Lake System Traces Hydrodynamics CE-QUAL-W2
Land Use Watershed USGS GIS Data Set Hydrologic Unit Maps (HUC) ArcView 3.2 ArcView Import71 Convert to Shapefile
Land Use (cont)
Land Use (cont) Farmland Pastureland
Land Use (cont) Population Growth 1980 ~ 450,000 1990 – 600,000 1980
Lake System ArcInfo 8.0 National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Geometric Network Unconnected Segment Connected Segment
Lake System (cont) Trace Upstream Trace Path
Lake System (cont) Problems with trace Route.rch Route.drain Complex Edges Route.drain
Conclusions Agricultural Area = Nutrient Loading Animal Waste Fertilizers Urbanization and development causes increased pollution and flooding events
Conclusions (cont) Use traces to simulate transportation of water through the system ArcView vs. ArcInfo HUC vs. NHD
Future Work Apply results to CE-QUAL-W2 Use water quality data from the LCRA in GIS application