Ground Water Information Management in Nebraska

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Pam Bonebright Jeff HoganNebraska Department
of Natural Resources
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Topics

• How it started
• Natural Resource Districts
• Overview of current system
• Dissemination
• Registration
• User tools
• Areas that can be improved
• Future enhancements

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Current System Registration

• Paper and digital registration
• Required information needed to determine well
  location
• Township, range, section, subsection, footage,
  gps, or marked map
• Review by staff
• Entered into database

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Nebraska OnLine Registration

• Dept. of Health and Human Service pays a yearly
  fee of 50 per contractor using NOL
• Contractors receive a monthly bill for all wells
  they register through NOL
• Information is directly imported to groundwater
  system after review

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On-Line Registration Home Page
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Sections have built-in information checks
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Sections have built-in information checks
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Final page to submit registration
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Dissemination

• Website with searchable tabular information,
  excluding municipal wells, updated daily
• Gis layer created daily

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Home page
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Groundwater home area
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Search options
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Search options
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Tools

• Mapit tool to displays well on aerial photograph
• Documents after 1-1-2004 are viewable online as
  pdf document
• Gps conversion to township range section
• Interactive Map

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Results of search returns following
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MapIT Tool
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Results of search returns following
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Document listing by requesting View PDF
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PDF document available on Web
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More search options available
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Converting Latitude and Longitude to
Section-Township-Range
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Results from Latitude and Longitude to
Section-Township-Range request
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Can enlarge map for printing
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Interactive Map
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Well Location Tool
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View Selected Point
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Selecting an Existing Well
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Areas to Improve

• Calls concerning well location
• Sending maps to people, to mark well location

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Mapping Section-Township-Range search
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Mapping Section-Township-Range results
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Future Enhancements

• On-line modifications
• Submit updates and corrections
• All documents scanned
• Reduce amount of copies by not mailing to NRDs
  and Contractors
• Paperless

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Wells Web Page Statistics Jan 1 Oct 14
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Wells Web Page Statistics Jan 1 Oct 14
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Thank You
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