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Track: Application Development Techniques
Lorri A. Peltz (-Lewis)
USGS WRD
333 W Nye Lane
Carson City, NV 89706
Telephone: 702-887-7600
Fax: 702-887-7629
E-mail: lapeltz@usgs.gov
Eva M. Bauer
ARCVIEW USE IN SUPPORT of A WATER RIGHTs SPATIAL DATA BASE
The U.S. Geological Survey has been cooperatively developing a spatial water rights database for use by the Nevada Division of Water Resources (NDWR) since 1992. The Pahrump Valley was the pilot area for this database development. The current phase of the project is for the upper Carson River Basin, which includes the Carson, Eagle, and Dayton Valley watersheds. Initially, the project relied on accessing the GIS database through menus and programs developed with ARC Macro Language (AML). These AMLs were time-consuming to program and required considerable skill to maintain. With the release of ArcView Version 2.0 in 1995, all the functions of the current of AMLs were provided with considerable benefits. ArcView benefits include a comprehensive spatial database interface, database update and general maintenance capabilities, database protection from users, image display support capabilities, full mapping capabilities, and output support for maps and tables of different types. Additionally, routine tasks
can be automated with Avenue, an object-oriented programming language. The Pahrump Valley GIS was used to develop the user interface and automate several procedures. Currently, the interface for upper Carson River Basin is being completed and will be released to NDWR for continued development and maintenance.
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