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Using CommunityViz to Model Impervious Surface Impacts to Watersheds
Track: Modeling
Author(s): Michael Prisloe, Peter Hughes

The CommunityViz Scenario Constructor (SC) is an extension to ArcView 3.2 that facilitates the creation and testing of "what-if" scenarios. SC uses "automated" themes in which attribute values can be defined by formulas. Formulas also can use data values and spatial properties from other themes. Indicators can be created and displayed as charts that redraw whenever modeled attribute values change. The paper will discuss how SC was used in Marlborough, Connecticut, to create an interactive modeling application that assessed water quality impacts from impervious surfaces in two proposed subdivisions. The application facilitated testing various impervious surface reduction and mitigation techniques.

Michael Prisloe
University of Connecticut
Cooperative Extension
1066 Saybrook Rd
PO Box 70
Haddam , CT 06438-0070
USA
Phone: 860 345 4511
Fax: 860 345 5537
E-mail: sprisloe@canr.uconn.edu

Peter Hughes
Town of Marlborough
Planning
26 North Main St
Marlborough 06447
USA
Phone: 860 295 6202
Fax: 860 295 0317
E-mail: planner@marlboroughct.com