1. The WV NHD Stewardship Program: June ‘10 Update
Evan J Fedorko

2. Outline Status Year One Proposal Players
Task 1: Stewardship program establishment and organization
Task 2: Editing of known errors
Task 3: High change area targeted editing (research)
Funding

3. Status Memorandum of Understanding Year one proposal
Between WV Office of GIS Coordinator, NRCS and the USGS
Identifies two stewards: WVOGC (NHD), NRCS (WBD)
Identifies a technical lead: WVGISTC
Signed, sealed and delivered!
Year one proposal
Submitted and approved!

4. Year One Proposal Players WVOGC
West Virginia GIS Technical Center (Fedorko)
Natural Resource Analysis Center (Strager)
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (Daugherty)
West Virginia stewardship community

5. Task 1: NHD Stewardship Program
USGS NHD Stewardship Program
NHD National
WV Office of
GIS Coordination
NHD Steward
Stewardship
Technical Lead
WV GIS Technical Center
NHD Error Reporting Tool
Primary Sub-Stewards
e.g., WVDEP,
USFS, WVDNR
Stakeholders and
Stewardship
Mechanisms
NHD Training and Policies
NHD Users Group
NHD Data Users

6. Task 1 (cont.) Establishment of !
Establishment of Stewardship mechanisms, including:
Mailing list of updates
Error reporting tools
Training (also related to task 2)
What else?
NHD Users Group

7. Task 2: Known errors Utilize NRAC/WVDEP compilation of errors
NRAC and WVGISTC will edit as many 8 digit HUs as possible during project period

8. Task 3: High change areas targeted editing (research)
Work with WVDEP to develop methodology, data sharing mechanisms, etc., to most efficiently edit areas of high change; e.g. surface mining areas, road construction, etc.

9. Funding
Total funding is $50K - $25K from USGS matched by $25K from WV Office of GIS Coordination
Funding will be split between NRAC and WVGISTC

10. Discussion
We want your feedback and participation!