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Abstract
Water Assessment and Tracking Environmental Results System (WATERS)
Track: Water Resources
Author(s): Thomas O. Dabolt, Robert G. Palmer
The Assessment and Watershed Protection Division (AWPD) is developing a data system to integrate ambient water quality monitoring data, state-reported water quality assessments, the status of total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) in conjunction with any associated legal obligations, and the environmental results associated with Clean Water Act Section 319 funding. This new system, the Water Assessment and Tracking Environmental Results System (WATERS), integrates program databases using linkages to the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) reach identifiers. This integration, coupled with a headquarter/regional Web-based user interface, allows EPA Office of Water (OW) managers and staff to ask and answer numerous programmatic questions in support of OW assessment and monitoring activities. Information within WATERS is accessible to the public from a Web-based geographic information system, query, and reporting application, EnviroMapper for Office of Water application. This application enables the user to interact with all of WATERS or any combination of its modules. This paper will discuss the technical architecture used to build WATERS and the programmatic issues that influenced the architecture.
Thomas O. Dabolt
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
US EPA (MC-4503F)
1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20460
USA
Phone: 202-260-3697
Fax: 202-260-1517
E-mail: dabolt.thomas@epa.gov