1. Project Cooperators: Mark Olsen, MPCA Susanne Maeder, LMIC Tommy Dewald, USEPA/OW Building a Repository to Share Hydrologic Event Data Creating the Minnesota Reach Address Database (MnRAD)

2. Minnesota Water Quality Business Needs  Integrate water related information from different sources  Electronic data access and exchange

3. 3 Minnesota Water Quality Challenges  Distributed authority –Requires cooperation –Need to integrate and exchange data  Legacy data –Standards: codified and defacto  Data inconsistencies

4. 4 Key Components  Standards Based Approach for Critical Infrastructure –STORET/Assessment Database (ADB) –Environmental Data Access (EDA) Public and timely access Better use of local data Competent repository –National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) –Exchange Network –MnRAD

5. 5 Key Components - NHD  Formal coordination mechanism –Governor’s Council  Local buy-in –Use of value added data –Cross reference to existing systems –Involvement in production process  Partnerships –Fund match –Expertise –Tools and data  Outreach –Education and training Reach Indexing Tool (RIT) NHD data and use

6. 6 NHD is the Framework for Integration  NHD Consists of: –Hydrographic features for making maps –A national stream addressing system –A modeling network for navigating upstream/downstream –A maintenance infrastructure

7. 7 Watershed 02050701 contains 3 NHD reaches: - 02050701000001 - 02050701000001 - 02050701000002 - 02050701000002 - 02050701000003 - 02050701000003 which provide the framework for stream (reach) addresses in the same manner that streets do for street addresses What are NHD Reaches? Watershed 02050701 1 2 3

8. 8 National Hydrography Hydrography Dataset Dataset EPA/OW WATERS Data Architecture Nonpoint Source Grants Impaired Waters & Total Maximum Daily Loads Water Quality Assessments Water Quality Monitoring Water Quality Standards (Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS) (www.epa.gov/waters) (www.epa.gov/waters) GRTS WQSDB NTTS STORET ADB/NAD Reach Address Database (RAD)

9. 9 MnRAD Goals Business need: Integrate water data from different sources  MnRAD as central repository Authoritative source of NHD Manage and share data and related events Locally update and maintain NHD –Consistent with national repository

10. 10 MnRAD Goals Business need: Electronic data access and exchange  Enable electronic exchange of water quality data with EPA Programmatic data –Assessed and impaired waters (305(b)/303(d) ) Geospatial data –NHD events relating to that reporting

11. 11 MnRAD Progress Through Partnerships  Critical success factors: –Cooperative agreement with EPA Office of Water RAD design and expertise Integrated reporting process improvements –Exchange Network –EPA systems and tools Reach Indexing Tool (RIT) Assessment Database (ADB) STORET –USGS tools for state stewardship

12. 12 MnRAD Accomplishments  Assess user needs  Establish new WQ reporting data and process flows with EPA –Programmatic and geospatial  NHD –transition to Geodatabase –100K to 24K migration –Update and maintenance

15. 15 MnRAD Accomplishments  Assess user needs  Establish new WQ reporting data and process flows with EPA –Programmatic and geospatial  NHD –transition to Geodatabase –100K to 24K migration –Update and maintenance  Draft system design

16. 16 NHD Stewardship and Updates  Nationwide database at USGS  Local updates to USGS  “Administrative” steward in state –State authoritative copy –Gatekeeper for the state’s updates –Many potential updaters/ coordinate and track updates  USGS synchronizes updates back to states

19. 19 MnRAD Accomplishments  Assess user needs  Establish new WQ reporting data and process flows with EPA –Programmatic and geospatial  NHD –transition to Geodatabase –100K to 24K migration –Update and maintenance  Draft system design

20. 20 MnRAD CDX Spatial Data Submission: Part 1: Minnesota Data Submittal

21. 21 MnRAD CDX Spatial Data Submission: Part 2: CDX Web Services

22. 22 MnRAD CDX Spatial Data Submission: Part 3: Backend Handoff

23. 23 MnRAD Next Steps  Complete system design and implement  Finalize flow configuration document for integrated reporting  Develop system and methods to update the NHD for Minnesota

24. For More Information Mark Olsen: 651-296-3412 mark.olsen@pca.state.mn.us Susanne Maeder: 651-201-2488 susanne.maeder@state.mn.us

25. Creating the MnRAD Susanne Maeder, LMIC & Mark Olsen, MPCA Thanks to: –Carrie Bartz, MPCA & Sandi Kuitunen, LMIC –Tommy Dewald, USEPA Office of Water –Paul Wiese & Jeff Simley, USGS – NHD Team –Steve Andrews & Tracey Szajgin – Indus Corp. –Cindy McKay – Horizon Systems