Abstract

Assessing water quality with maps, XML and duct tape
Track: Water Resources
Authors: Jeff Kapellas, John Zastrow, Stephanie Bucknam

With its size and climatic diversity, California's process for assessing pollutant-impaired waters (aka the '303(d)-list') is as complex as the state’s hydrology. The State Water Resources Control Board, with assistance from US EPA, has developed a multi-tiered system integrating ArcGIS Desktop mapping, ArcGIS Server map services and Oracle reporting to manage sample data, assist staff in developing Lines of Evidence, and report assessment decisions directly to the US EPA’s ATTAINS database.