Using NHD in the Incident Command Information Tool

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Using NHD in the Incident Command Information Tool

• William B. Samuels1 and Douglas Ryan2
• 1Science Applications International Corporation
• McLean, VA
• 2US Forest Service
• Arlington, VA
• 2004 ESRI International User Conference
• August 11, 2004
• San Diego, CA

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The Need

• Water sources are vulnerable
• Preparedness will reduce consequences of a
  deliberate or accidental spill
• Incident Commanders need timely information to
  act effectively.

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Why the Forest Service?

• Cadre of trained Incident Commanders
• Experience responding to wildland fires and other
  major disaster response efforts
• National Forests are an important source of
  public drinking water.

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US has over 180,000 water systemsForest Service
watersheds serve as sources of drinking water for
3,000 towns (60 million people)
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ICWater Partners

• US Forest Service
• Linkage to Incident Commanders
• Technical Support Working Group (TSWG)
• Compatibility with existing consequence
  assessment tools
• DTRA
• Training MOU with USFS
• Operation and maintenance
• EPA
• NHD
• Model validation
• Flow Volume and Velocity
• USGS
• Comparisons with dye studies
• Location of gages and monitoring stations
• Flow volume and velocity (NE SPARROW Project)
• Interstate Commission of the Potomac River Basin
• Comparisons with dye studies and other transport
  models

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ICWater Architecture
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ICWater Software Development System Packages
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National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)

• USGS
• Available in NHDinGEO format
• Flow volume and velocity data NE SPARROW
  Project
• EPA Office of Water
• making NHD available to the ICWater Project from
  their Reach Address Database (RAD)
• NHD-Indexed Public Water Supply Intakes
• Flow volume and velocity attributes

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NHD Geodatabase Extract
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NHD Geodatabase
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Development Regions
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NHD Hydro Region 1
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NHD Features
Gage
Intake
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Supporting Databases

• Public Water Supply Intakes
• http//oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/sdw_report.first_tabl
  e?report_id726187pwsidVA3550051stateVAsource
  Surface20water20population90683sys_num0
• USGS Stream gages
• 19,590 current and historical gages (7,160
  real-time)
• http//waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis
• Hydrologic Units (HUC) (Watershed Boundaries)
• Created a downstream/upstream HUC navigation
  table
• HAZMATS
• Toxic Chemical Release Inventory (TRI)
• http//oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/tris_control.tris_pri
  nt?tris_id11040CLLCR1403F
• Risk Management Plan Sites (RMP)
• Superfund Sites (CERCLIS)
• http//oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/cerclis_web.report?pg
  m_sys_idWY0000045138
• Hazardous Waste (RCRA)
• http//oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/fii_query_dtl.disp_pr
  ogram_facility?pgm_sys_id_inWYD981547706pgm_sys_
  acrnm_inRCRAINFO
• Landfills (USGS)

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Supporting Databases (continued)

• Mines
• Minerals Availability System (Bureau of Mines)
• Dams
• National Inventory of Dams (Corps of Engineers)
• http//crunch.tec.army.mil/nid/webpages/nid.cfm
• Dischargers
• Permits Compliance System (NPDES)
• http//oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/fii_query_dtl.disp_pr
  ogram_facility?pgm_sys_id_inSD0020036pgm_sys_acr
  nm_inPCS
• http//oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/pcs_det_reports.pcs_t
  st?npdesidSD0020036npvalue1npvalue2npvalue3
  npvalue4npvalue5npvalue6rvalue13npvalue7
  npvalue8npvalue10npvalue11npvalue12
• Reservoirs
• USGS Reservoir characteristics

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Supporting Databases

• National Pipeline Mapping System
• USFS Roads
• ESRI Data
• Roads
• Railroads
• Federal Lands (includes USFS lands)
• Boundary files (state, county, zip,.)
• US Census Data (2000 population)
• Hospitals
• Schools

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Potential Spill Sources National Highway Bridge
Inventory
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Potential Spill SourcesNational Pipeline Mapping
System
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ICWater Toolbar and GUI
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Linkage to real-time stream flow
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Spill Site
ICWater Downstream Trace
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Upstream Tracing
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ICWater Development Team
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Program Contacts

• Doug Ryan
• USFS, [phone], dryan01_at_fs.fed.us
• Perry Pederson
• TSWG, [phone], pedersonp_at_tswg.gov
• Kevin McCormack
• USEPA, [phone], mccormack.kevin_at_epa,gov

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Technical Contacts

• William B. Samuels, Ph.D
• SAIC, [phone], william.b.samuels_at_saic.com
• Rakesh Bahadur, Ph.D
• SAIC [phone], rakesh.bahadur_at_saic.com
• Project Website
• http//eh2o.saic.com/icit