Interactive Mapping Applications: Approaches to Enrich Monitoring in the Delaware River Basin

Delaware River Watershed Initiative

Lin Perez, A. Waldman, S. Kroll, S. Haag

IT STARTED

WITH A MAP

ArcGIS Online Platform • Proprietary • Cost drastically increases with map complexity • Design limitations

CartoDB Platform • Proprietary • “Open source” community • Design flexibility

Supporting the investment: Comprehensive observational infrastructure

• Measurement across scales • General watershed characteristics • Characteristics relative to project • Indicators • Quantitative methods • Sampling network

Monitoring for Water Quality – IBIs

Monitoring Site Stats 77 Project Sites (algae, habitat and water) 24 Fish 15 Salamander

30 Macroinvertebrates 35 Integrative with water sampled quarterly 15 Lentic Macroinvertebrate

Monitoring for Water Quality

- Rock scouring - Turbidity - Sedimentation - Depth - Wadability - “X” time from last significant weather event

- At least 7 days

Monitoring for Water Quality

- Discharge - Turbidity - Depth - Wadability - “X” time from last significant weather event

Monitoring for Water Quality

Limitations to sampling:

• STORM ITENSITY AND DURATION • CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS Differences in time scale

- Real time NOAA weather - Real time and Historical USGS Stream Gauge Data - LCLU Analysis to model smaller monitoring sites - Water quality data from ANS Server

GO! No go.

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USGS 01437500 NEVERSINK RIVER AT GODEFFROY NY

USGS 01470755 Maiden Creek near Virginville, PA

USGS 014670413 Pennypack Creek at Bethayres, PA

forested

agriculture

urban

DAYS IN AUGUST 2013

Z FA

CTO

R August 2013 Relative Discharge at Three ANS Integrative Monitoring Sites

Z Score normalizes for baseflow

Should we use the total station mean for August over 5 years? Maybe.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

USGS 01437500 NEVERSINK RIVER AT GODEFFROY NY

USGS 01470755 Maiden Creek near Virginville, PA

USGS 014670413 Pennypack Creek at Bethayres, PA Urban

DAYS IN AUGUST 2013

Z FA

CTO

R August 2013 Relative Discharge at Three ANS Integrative Monitoring Sites

Forested (headwater)

Agriculture (medium size stream)

-2

-1

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

USGS 01437500 NEVERSINK RIVER AT GODEFFROY NY

USGS 01470755 Maiden Creek near Virginville, PA

USGS 014670413 Pennypack Creek at Bethayres, PA Urban

DAYS IN AUGUST 2013

Z FA

CTO

R August 2013 Relative Discharge at Three ANS Integrative Monitoring Sites

Forested (headwater)

Agriculture (medium size stream)

-2

-1

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

USGS 01437500 NEVERSINK RIVER AT GODEFFROY NY

USGS 01470755 Maiden Creek near Virginville, PA

USGS 014670413 Pennypack Creek at Bethayres, PA

Forested (headwater)

Agriculture (medium size stream)

Urban

DAYS IN AUGUST 2013

Z FA

CTO

R August 2013 Relative Discharge at Three ANS Integrative Monitoring Sites

Differences in time scale

Thank you

Questions?