Georeferencing Water Quality Assessments to NHDPlus Catchments A New Approach to Evaluating and Measuring Progress in Surface Water Quality DWANE YOUNG,

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Georeferencing Water Quality Assessments to NHDPlus Catchments A New Approach to Evaluating and Measuring Progress in Surface Water Quality DWANE YOUNG, U.S. EPA, OFFICE OF WATER

Outline Georeferencing Pilot (GeoPilot) ◦Background and Goals ◦Methods in Brief ◦Results Using Catchment-Based Indexing to Measure Progress ◦Benefits ◦Examples May 12, 20142U.S. EPA

Clean Water Act Section 303(d) ◦A List of Impaired Waters for which a TMDL still needs to be completed Section 305(b) ◦An Assessment of the Water Quality of all navigable waters in each State Integrated Report (IR) ◦Integrates data from Sections 303(d) and 305(b) May 12, 20143U.S. EPA

Background States submit IR/303(d)/305(b) decision data and the corresponding location information to EPA Geospatial data are different formats ◦Resolutions ◦Medium Resolution: 1:100,000 scale ◦High Resolution: mixture of scales, typically 1:24,000 or better ◦Reference layers ◦NHD/NHDPlus ◦Other than NHD Current processing is mostly manual ◦Time consuming ◦Expensive to EPA GeoPilot initiated to investigate and test potential improvements May 12, 20144U.S. EPA

Goals of Georeferencing Pilot 1.Reduce cost through automated processing 2.Process and publish geospatial data faster 3.Maintain high data quality 4.Create more complete dataset May 12, 20145U.S. EPA

Catchment-Based Indexing Used NHDPlus Version 2 Catchments ◦ Approximately 2.6 million catchments in contiguous US ◦ Average size: 1.1 square miles ◦ Significant range in size, but 99% smaller than 15 square miles Needed to accommodate many types of inputs ◦ Linear events, Area events, HUC-like events ◦ Medium resolution (1:100K) ◦ High resolution (1:24K or better) ◦ NHD or Non NHD Separating Display and Analysis May 12, 20146U.S. EPA

GeoPilot Prototypes Three prototypes – based on input type ◦Linear to Catchment ◦Area Waterbody to Catchment ◦HUC-like to Catchment Prototypes use attributes from NHDPlus ◦Stream level ◦Hydrologic sequence number ◦Level path ◦Artificial path ◦Divergence May 12, 20147U.S. EPA

Linear to Catchment Prototype May 12, 20148U.S. EPA

Results Old MethodCatchment-Based Method Manual Processing Time hours per state7-15 hours (pre-processing and QA) per state Automated Processing Time Varies with significant QA/QC time Varies: 5 minutes to 3 hours per state Estimated Cost~$2,000 - $10,000 per state~$700-$1,500 per state Outputs Resolution for Analysis1:100K NHDPlus1:100K NHDPlus Catchments Resolution for Display1:100K NHDPlusState’s original resolution *Catchment-based indexing should have a minimal impact to how states submit data May 12, 20149U.S. EPA

Strategic Measures and Tracking Progress CWA Section 303(d) Measures first to test this approach ◦Extent of priority areas identified by each state that are addressed by EPA-approved TMDLs or alternative restoration approaches for impaired waters that will achieve water quality standards. These areas may also include protection approaches for unimpaired waters to maintain water quality standards. ◦State-wide extent of activities leading to completed TMDLs or alternative restoration approaches for impaired waters, or protection approaches for unimpaired waters. May 12, U.S. EPA

Mapping State GIS Data to the Catchments Receive GIS data from StatesTranslate to Catchments May 12, U.S. EPA

Using the Catchments to Track Progress (d)/305(b) Integrated Report (d)/305(b) Integrated Report Category Watershed Area Supporting122 sq. km Impaired131 sq. km With TMDL or Alt. Plan 64 sq. km Not Assessed343 sq. km Total Size596 sq. km Category Watershed Area Supporting149 sq. km Restored 27 sq. km Partially Restored 15 sq. km Impaired67 sq. km With TMDL or Alt. Plan 37 sq. km Not Assessed343 sq. km Total Size596 sq. km May 12, U.S. EPA

Next Steps ◦Finalize the evaluation of this approach using the 303(d) measure as a test case ◦Convert from Prototype to Production Process ◦Process IR GIS data using Catchment-based indexing method as data are received May 12, U.S. EPA

For More Information For process details, see the IR Georeferencing Pilot Report (coming soon) Water Quality Assessment and Total Maximum Daily Loads Information ◦ Contact Info ◦Dwane Young, EPA Office of Water ◦Wendy Reid, EPA Office of Water ◦Tommy Dewald, EPA Office of Water May 12, U.S. EPA

Questions? May 12, U.S. EPA

Appendix May 12, U.S. EPA

Area Waterbody to Catchment Prototype AREA WATERBODY INPUTRESULTS* AB *Area circled in yellow shows a portion of the waterbody where catchments were not associated with the waterbody because it did not meet the requirements: the pieces were smaller than the threshold used, and they were not part of an NHD artificial path. May 12, U.S. EPA

HUC-like to Catchment Prototype HUC-LIKE INPUTRESULTS AB May 12, U.S. EPA