West Virginia NHD Stewardship Evan FedorkoEvan Fedorko May 2013May 2013 Kanawha Falls, WV; aka NHD Area Rapids #

Stewardship in WV WV GIS Technical Center WV Office of GIS Coordination Natural Resource Analysis Center USGS NHD Stewardship WV NHD Steward Technical Lead Technical Partner Evan FedorkoJackie Strager WVDEP Office of Water Resc.; USFS; etc. Contributors 2

Stewardship Goals Increase NHD adoption Geometric correction and editing – Coal fields – Urban development General NHD edits – Name errors, network errors, etc. Inclusion of new features – Lakes/ponds – Limestone features such as sinks

Recent Highlights Conference workshop Introduced advanced NHD tools and products such as HEM, NHD Plus, Stream Stats, etc.

Highlights, Cont. Development of mine impacted streams dataset Intersecting Feature Intersected Features Test Features Features Requiring Edits Percentage Valley Fills (2009) % Refuse Structures (2009) % Permit Boundaries (released or phase rel only) % Skytruth MTR Areas % Fill Analysis Data (WVDEP, Shank 2009) %

Highlights, Cont. Editing, non-mining Two watersheds completed ~2010 Utilized catalog of errors from WVDEP along with other submissions

Highlights, Cont. Editing, mining Mine effected features dataset crucial to this work

Looking Forward WV NHD Stewardship is: THANKS! Questions? Evan Fedorko WV GIS Technical Center Photo credit: National Geographic