Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal KWMIP

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Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal
(KWMIP)

• Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal
  Objectives
• Improve efficiency and quality for 2-5 selected
  watershed models.
• Leverage existing data and current projects.
• Interface with USEPAs Environmental Information
  Exchange Network (EIEN)
• Allow for future inclusion/expansion to KY node
  of EIEN (TEMPO/COMPASS).
• Train KY water resource managers and modelers.
• Vendor neutral links to GIS and databases
• E-commerce for long term viability.
• What is a watershed model?
• Simulates hydrologic and/or pollutant processes
  at a watershed scale, over time
• Precipitation, overland runoff, infiltration,
  evapotranspiration
• Pollutant deposition, buildup, wash-off
• Pollutant transformation processes
• Examples LSPC, WASP, CE-QUAL2E, SWAT, HSPF

KWMIP Award 2 year, 750,000 Cooperative
Agreement between USEPA and KY Commonwealth
Office of Technology (10/04 9/06)

• KWMIP Includes
• Training Water resources managers and modelers
• Communication Broad public and private sector
• Maintain and Finance Operational System
• Long-term OM plan will be developed
• Finance with e-commerce fees for private sector
  users
• Government use will be free
• Web-Enable GeoBook EPAs Ecological Framework
  GeoBook for Southeast will be web-enabled.

Technical Advisory Group

• -Participate in User Needs Assessment
• Federal, state, local agencies
• Academics
• Professional Organizations
• Non-profit groups
• Consultants
• 80 invitations
• Meetings start 8/26 8/29

• Kentucky Precipitation and Temperature Model
• Distance-weighting approach using X-Y-Z data
• More robust than classical area-polygon methods
• Data Sources
• Daily rainfall records from COOP network
• Hourly rainfall records from first-order NWS
  network
• Hourly radar images (NEXRAD)

• KWMIP Construction
• User Needs Assessment ID watershed modeling
  needs.
• Project partners and Technical Advisory Group
  (TAG)
• Use Cases for System Design -
• User Needs Assessment and Use Case Scenarios
• Results shape System Design
• Build and Test Pilot System
• Built by OGC tested by partners and TAG
• Include statewide precipitation temperature
  model, built by USGS
• Install Operational System on COT server
• KWMIP In Action!
• Trained modelers select from 2 to 5 supported
  models and a watershed or area of interest.
• KWMIP locates necessary data, clips, formats and
  ships to modeler for use.

KY Climate Stations

• KWMIP Leverages Data and Projects!
• Kentucky Landscape Snapshot - updated land use,
  impervious surface cover www.kls.ky.gov
• Kentucky Landscape Census land use change
  www.klc.ky.gov
• USGS Stream Stats point click drainage
  areas, streamflow for gauged and ungauged
  streams, 1st order estimates of N P from
  SPARROW model (under construction)
  www.kygeonet.ky.gov/kyhydro/viewer.htm Stream
  Data Layer
• Multi-Agency Karst Hydrography Initiative
  Improve watershed boundaries, karst system maps,
  Improve understanding of surface ground water
  interactions
• USEPA Environmental Information Exchange Network
  TEMPO, COMPASS (KYDEP) STORET, PCS (USEPA)
  www.exchangenetwork.net
• EPA Region IV Modeling Toolbox BASINS
  Databases, GIS, Models, currently has links to
  static data GIS www.epa.gov\athens\wwqtsc
• KY GeoNet Numerous KY geographic data layers
  useful for modeling www.kygeonet.ky.gov

Dataset Translator / Filter Provides Spatially
Accurate, Scaled, Formatted Data to Develop
Run Model(s)
KWMIP
E-Commerce For non-govt
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KWMIP Principal Investigator Gary.Harp_at_ky.gov Gov
ernment Technical Lead Demetrio.Zourarakis_at_ky.gov
Project Coordinator KSchaffer_at_fmsm.com Project
Website http//kwmip.ky.gov/