1. Managing the Nation’s Hydro Events NHD Stewardship Conference 2012

2. U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Hydrography Event Management (HEM) Tools Update Ariel Doumbouya

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4. 4 NHD Update Tools and NHD Events HEM Job Type HEM Job Type All HEM required feature classes and tables are delivered All HEM required feature classes and tables are delivered Requires a subset of the normal QC Requires a subset of the normal QC

5. 5 What’s Next? ArcGIS 10.1 ArcGIS 10.1 Web Web

6. 6 More Information: http://nhd.usgs.gov http://nhd.usgs.gov

7. Jay Stevens Bureau of Land Management Oregon State Office Using event data in analysis and reporting : How Oregon BLM Uses Event Overlay

9.  First version of Aquatic Resource Information Management System (ARIMS) database deploys in 2000. Used ArcView and Informix. Uses Linear Events on routed line-work (LLID system)  Decision is made in 2006 to switch to NHD data model for PNW Framework Hydrography. Forest Service and BLM are main drivers.  Development of Hydro Event Management (HEM) tools begins in 2007 with Forest Service event-maker app as starting point.  ARIMS redesigned to use HEM and NHD in ARCGIS 9 environment in 2008  Legacy event data (millions of records) are migrated to NHD and HEM format in 2008-2009  Subsequent HEM development with EPA and USGS support add enhancements to system.

10.  HEM and ARIMS work together in ARCGIS environment to manage aquatic data stored as events on the NHD route system.  All event data and NHD data used for linear referencing stored in same SDE Oracle instance  Deployed on Citrix server farm  Users located in central, district, and field offices.

11.  Fish Distribution  Riparian Wetland Condition  Stream Surveys /Geomorphology  Flow characteristics  Water Quality Data What kind of aquatic data are we collecting?

15. Criteria from multiple event tables needed to calculate riparian buffer distance BLM Fishbearing Status BLM Flow for Planning

16. Selection for varying buffer distances can be made easily when both events’ attributes are on same set of flowlines ("PLANFLOW" = 'I' or "PLANFLOW" = 'P' ) and "FISHBEARING" = 'ANV'

17.  Need to be able to select and report miles of stream by fish presence, riparian condition, periodicity, etc.  Can’t have duplicate copies of geometry (no double-reporting miles)  Some of the data is temporal so need to extract most recent information

18.  ARCGIS Event Overlay – Not line on line geometry overlay. Event overlay uses tabular route and measure info to INTERSECT or UNION event tables thus adding new fields from each successive overlay.  Oracle PL/SQL Analytical Queries – Used to analyze temporal event data to bring most recent records forward into publication dataset. Riparian Functioning data (PFC) and Fish presence data are processed this way.

22. Jay Stevens Oregon State Office Bureau of Land Management gStevens@blm.gov Dan Wickwire Oregon State Office Bureau of Land Management Dan_Wickwire@blm.gov Dana Baker Oregon State Office Bureau of Land Management d2baker@blm.gov PNWHF www.pnwhf.org

23. NHD Stewardship Conference March 29-30, 2012 New Orleans, LA Montana Hydro Event Management Troy Blandford, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Michael Pipp, Montana Department Environmental Quality Evan Hammer, Montana State Library

24. Hydrography is one of 14 Montana Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) Framework Layers. Hydrography is one of 14 Montana Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) Framework Layers. Montana adopted the NHD as the state Hydrography Framework. Montana adopted the NHD as the state Hydrography Framework. The Montana State Library (MSL)/Natural Resource Information System (NRIS) has an agreement with the USGS to act as the state level data steward for the NHD and… The Montana State Library (MSL)/Natural Resource Information System (NRIS) has an agreement with the USGS to act as the state level data steward for the NHD and… NRIS is recognized by the Montana Land Information Advisory Council as the state steward of the MSDI Hydrography Framework. NRIS is recognized by the Montana Land Information Advisory Council as the state steward of the MSDI Hydrography Framework. Montana Hydrography Stewardship Model

25. NRIS provides staff for NHD Stewardship and the NHD Technical Point of Contact NRIS provides staff for NHD Stewardship and the NHD Technical Point of Contact NRIS is a data provider and not an end user so our focus is on getting state hydrography users together to build the dataset that they need NRIS is a data provider and not an end user so our focus is on getting state hydrography users together to build the dataset that they need NRIS holds regular Hydrography Workgroup meetings and develops a Hydrography Strategic/Business Plan NRIS holds regular Hydrography Workgroup meetings and develops a Hydrography Strategic/Business Plan Current stewardship focus on getting core state agencies to use a common Hydrography. Current stewardship focus on getting core state agencies to use a common Hydrography. Projects underway at the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and the Department of Environmental Quality. Projects underway at the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and the Department of Environmental Quality. All of these projects take an event management approach to leveraging the value of the NHD for filling state agency business needs. All of these projects take an event management approach to leveraging the value of the NHD for filling state agency business needs. Montana Hydrography Stewardship Activities

26. Montana Department of Natural Resources – Water Rights Point of Diversions – Troy Blandford will give a brief overview of the project and discuss the success they have had trying different approaches for matching up dams in the Water Rights database to the NHD. Montana Department of Environmental Quality – Water Quality Data – Michael Pipp will talk about the data management workflows that were developed to allow the agency to use the continuously changing NHD as a reference dataset. Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks – fisheries data and the requirement of Whole Stream Identifiers. Much of the fisheries work done by this agency is in collaboration with other pacific nw states. The fundamental organizing unit for their data management is the full river. We are exploring the possibility of developing a type of compund event that may meet their business needs. Montana Hydrography Stewardship Projects

27. Troy Blandford Montana DNRC NHD Stewardship Conference March 29-30, 2012 New Orleans, LA Dams to NHD: An Exercise in Locating Dams from the Montana Water Rights Database.

28. Overview of the Bigger Project POD2NHD Overall Goal: Assess the feasibility of geospatially enabling the DNRC Water Rights Database and integrating it with the NHD. Assess the feasibility of geospatially enabling the DNRC Water Rights Database and integrating it with the NHD.

29. A large majority of the diversions: DAMS * Active water rights only, March 2012. Minimum counts (dissolved by unique legal land description). Total ~ 180,000

30. The majority of the diversions: DAMS * Active water rights only, March 2012. Minimum counts (dissolved by unique legal land description). Total ~ 180,000 Example of Livestock Direct from Source

33. Amount of time to place all dams estimated at over a year.

34. Automate the process as much as possible. Use multiple sources and their spatial relationships.

36. Successfully automated the placement of over 23K (55%) of the water right dams to NHD.

37. Only 20K dams and 140K more surface water right points of diversion to go. Attribute the dams Continue to investigate referencing additional means of diversion types (significant effort; not as easy to place as dams; may not have as much success automating).

38. Managing the NHD as a reference dataset for Water Quality event features Michael Pipp Montana DEQ NHD Stewardship Conference March 29-30, 2012 New Orleans, LA

39. Mapping Montana Dams

41. Questions? Evan Hammer – Ehammer@mt.govEhammer@mt.gov Troy Blandford – tblandford@mt.govtblandford@mt.gov Michael Pipp – mpipp@mt.govmpipp@mt.gov Thank You! Duane Lund Marcus Sadak Kris Hardman Liz Murray Jim Robinson Lance Clampitt Hank Nelson Ariel Doumbouya Montana Land Information Advisory Council USGS