The Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project (RRNWWDP) is developing a comprehensive approach to watershed management. The mission of the Rouge Project is to restore the water quality in the Rouge River to a safe and healthy environment for ourselves and future generations. The project is conducting detailed investigations and analysis of the entire river for innovative, watershed wide solutions for controlling wet weather problems.
To accomplish this mission, the watershed managers and scientists require information. This information consists of such things as drainage areas, land use/land cover, pollutant sources, sampling data and much, much more. To manage this information plus provide watershed analysis tools required the design and development of a geographic information system including a relational database management system. This paper will describe the Rouge GIS and the end-user tools and applications which have been and will be developed as part of the project.
The Rouge GIS started with the best available information primarily from agencies within the State of Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Data was converted, organized and pulled together into an environment designed and mantained by GIS specialists. To get the information to the watershed managers and scientists, additional PC-Windows based tools had to be developed and will continue to be developed.
GIS and database applications are needed to support a variety of activities. These activitis include the planning of nonpoint source pollution control activities, the evaluation of land cover data for hydrologic modeling, the display and analysis of sampling data for water quality modeling, and the tracing of pollutants through the river network.
Charles R. Bristol
CDM Rouge Project
220 Bagley
#920
Detroit MI 48226
Telephone: 313-961-0700
Fax: 313-961-1762
Email: BRISTOLCR@CDM.COM
Ken Koleda
Wayne Co.
John Foley