Critical Coastal Areas Program

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Critical Coastal Areas Program
James Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Pilot Watershed
Characterization and Assessment Project, Phase I
Update, San Mateo County ABAG/GREENINFO Network
Surveys of Need and Technology Options for Online
Access to Coastal Areas Information James
Fitzgerald Reserve Pilot CCA Workshop February
7, 2007
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User Survey and Technology Options for Online
Access to CCA Information

• ABAG and SFEI commissioned GreenInfo Network to
  conduct a preliminary assessment of need and
  technology options for online mapping and other
  information.
• A survey was administered to potential users and
  interested CCA parties in Winter 2006, with a 25
  response rate.

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Survey of Online Mapping Options

• GreenInfo also surveyed a range of on-line
  mapping and information tools to do an initial
  ranking.

• The survey of needs indicated
• Strongest interest in basic online mapping and
  related information
• Significant interest in more expanded online
  information, after core needs are met.
• A cautiousness about system expansions, to ensure
  best use of resources.

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Functions that were most highly strongly valued
by survey respondents.

• View natural resource information for CCA
• Download GIS data about a CCA and generate
  reports
• View Best Management Practices (BMPs)
• Explore water quality monitoring data and
  scenarios
• Add new data and link to other sites
• If the tool could model by user choice
  (interactivity)
• Modification of stream beds and banks.
• Water and sediment movement and storage.
• Urban planning
• Ag practices
• Other rural land uses
• Transportation
• Recreation and open space uses

Download GIS data about a CCA
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Most important data.

• Riparian zones, creeks, wetlands
• Permitted discharge points
• Threatened and endangered species
• Impaired water body segments

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Range of Response Critical to Useful

• Urban growth projections
• Areas served by septic tanks
• Watershed management plan boundaries

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Significant Information Access Concerns

• Property owner data (from already-available
  assessor records)
• Personal Technology Capacity
• Over 80 of respondents said their technology
  capacity was satisfactory or strong.

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General Comments

• Be careful to invest time an effort to market
  tool to intended users
• Use a cautious, non-duplicative approach
• Some skepticism about online modeling and
  mapping, versus other projects (cost/benefit)
• Ensure good documentation of any data provided

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Review of public web sites with water-related
information

• Data viewers
• Date viewers with query/selection
• Modeling with text-based selections
• Modeling with GIS

• Examples of web sites follow.
• The full ABAG/GreenInfo Network report is
  available on request.

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