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The Upper The Upper Susquehanna-Susquehanna-Lackawanna WatershedLackawanna WatershedCommunity Community Demonstration Project Demonstration Project of the NSDI Programof the NSDI Program
Dale Bruns and Tom SweetDale Bruns and Tom SweetPA GIS ConsortiumPA GIS Consortium
Sweet SolutionsSweet Solutions
pagis.orgpagis.org
Overview of Overview of PresentationPresentation
Location and BackgroundLocation and Background AccomplishmentsAccomplishments
1 Established PA GIS Consortium1 Established PA GIS Consortium
2 Launched GIS Master Plan for an American Heritage 2 Launched GIS Master Plan for an American Heritage River Designated WatershedRiver Designated Watershed
3 Implemented design and deployment of a 3 Implemented design and deployment of a locally locally independent, regionally coordinated, multi-purposeindependent, regionally coordinated, multi-purpose GIS for Central and Northeastern PennsylvaniaGIS for Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania
Community BenefitsCommunity Benefits On-Going and Future Projects On-Going and Future Projects
Project Project LocationLocation Susquehanna River Susquehanna River
drains the largest U.S. drains the largest U.S. river basin on the river basin on the Atlantic coastAtlantic coast
PA GIS Consortium
Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed’s Relationship to the Watershed’s Relationship to the Chesapeake Bay EcosystemChesapeake Bay Ecosystem
Pennsylvania
ChesapeakeBay
Susquehanna River contributes Susquehanna River contributes to over half of the freshwater to over half of the freshwater inflow to the Chesapeake Bayinflow to the Chesapeake Bay
120,000 acres of Abandoned 120,000 acres of Abandoned Mine Lands within the Upper Mine Lands within the Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Susquehanna-Lackawanna River BasinRiver Basin
3600 square miles - watershed 3600 square miles - watershed delineation with Anthracite delineation with Anthracite FieldsFields
Photo: Typical Photo: Typical Pennsylvania Pennsylvania LandscapeLandscape
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Photo: Mining Photo: Mining OperationOperation
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Photo: Proximity of Photo: Proximity of Mining to Human Mining to Human LandscapeLandscape
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Brief History of AreaBrief History of Area160 Years of Anthracite Mining160 Years of Anthracite Mining
– Surface Mining (base of mountain valleys)Surface Mining (base of mountain valleys)– Subsurface Mining (980 feet beneath the river)Subsurface Mining (980 feet beneath the river)
Five Billion Tons of Coal Removed (1807-1967)Five Billion Tons of Coal Removed (1807-1967)
1959 Knox Mine Disaster1959 Knox Mine Disaster– Breach in the river (100,000 gallons per minute): “runaway” Breach in the river (100,000 gallons per minute): “runaway”
whirlpoolwhirlpool– 200 rail cars, rocks, ties, poles, and hay dumped into hole200 rail cars, rocks, ties, poles, and hay dumped into hole
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Filmclip: Filmclip: Knox Mine DisasterKnox Mine Disaster
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Persistent Water Quality Persistent Water Quality ProblemsProblems
Severely degraded stream with urban debris and mining sedimentsSeverely degraded stream with urban debris and mining sediments
Mapping mine outfall locations with GPS technologiesMapping mine outfall locations with GPS technologies
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Abandoned Mine Abandoned Mine LandsLands
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Strip MineStrip Mine
Reclaimed LandReclaimed Land
Culm BankCulm Bank
What was What was accomplishedaccomplishedin Demonstration in Demonstration ProjectProject
PART 1PART 1
Established PA GIS Established PA GIS ConsortiumConsortium
What is the PA GIS What is the PA GIS Consortium?Consortium?
Incorporated as a Pennsylvania-Incorporated as a Pennsylvania-based 501(C)(3)based 501(C)(3)
Administered through it’s startup Administered through it’s startup phase by an independent Board of phase by an independent Board of DirectorsDirectors
Looking for local partners, Looking for local partners, members and sponsorsmembers and sponsors
What is the PA GIS What is the PA GIS Consortium’s Consortium’s mission?mission?
To support the design and To support the design and
deployment of deployment of locally independent, locally independent,
regionally coordinated, multi-regionally coordinated, multi-
purposepurpose Geographic Information Geographic Information
Systems for Central and Systems for Central and
Northeastern PennsylvaniaNortheastern Pennsylvania
What that means in What that means in order of priorityorder of priority
Support the design and deployment of Support the design and deployment of GIS that meet local needs and preserve GIS that meet local needs and preserve local independencelocal independence
Do so in a regionally coordinated Do so in a regionally coordinated manner that increases efficiency and manner that increases efficiency and effectivenesseffectiveness
Increase savings and leveraging power Increase savings and leveraging power by getting multiple uses of the end by getting multiple uses of the end product(s)product(s)
Education Sector Education Sector PartnersPartners
Wilkes University Wilkes University – Center for Geographic Information Center for Geographic Information
SciencesSciences King’s CollegeKing’s College
– The Marketing and Planning (MAP) The Marketing and Planning (MAP) Center in the William G. McGowan Center in the William G. McGowan School of BusinessSchool of Business
Private Sector Private Sector PartnersPartners
ESRIESRI Marconi Imaging SystemsMarconi Imaging Systems Aerial Data Reduction Aerial Data Reduction
(ADR)(ADR) CETROMCETROM ERIM ERIM
Public Sector Public Sector Partners (Federal)Partners (Federal)
Vice President Gore’s National Vice President Gore’s National Partnership for Reinventing Partnership for Reinventing GovernmentGovernment
Federal Geographic Data Committee Federal Geographic Data Committee of the U.S. Department of the Interiorof the U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Army Corps of EngineersU.S. Army Corps of Engineers U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyU.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Department of AgricultureU.S. Department of Agriculture
Public Sector Public Sector Partners (State)Partners (State)
Pennsylvania Mapping and Pennsylvania Mapping and Geographic Information Geographic Information ConsortiumConsortium
Department of Environmental Department of Environmental ProtectionProtection
Local PartnersLocal Partners
Luzerne CountyLuzerne County The Town of BloomsburgThe Town of Bloomsburg Columbia CountyColumbia County Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business
and Industryand Industry Wyoming Valley Sanitary AuthorityWyoming Valley Sanitary Authority Earth ConservancyEarth Conservancy
Created Regional Visualization Web Created Regional Visualization Web SitesSites
mapcenter.orgmapcenter.org
PA GIS Consortium
Regional Regional Visualization Visualization
CenterCenter paheritageriver.org/pagis.orgpaheritageriver.org/pagis.org
PA GIS Consortium
paheritageriver.orgpaheritageriver.org
pagis.orgpagis.org
Regional Regional Visualization Visualization
CenterCenter mapcenter.orgmapcenter.org
PA GIS Consortium
mapcenter.orgmapcenter.org
Regional Regional Visualization Visualization
CenterCenter paheritageriver.orgpaheritageriver.org
PA GIS Consortium
paheritageriver.orgpaheritageriver.org
Regional Regional Visualization Visualization
CenterCenter pagis.org 1pagis.org 1
PA GIS Consortium
pagis.orgpagis.org
Regional Regional Visualization Visualization
CenterCenter pagis.org 2pagis.org 2
PA GIS Consortium
What was What was accomplishedaccomplishedin Demonstration in Demonstration ProjectProject
PART 2PART 2
Launched GIS Master Plan for Launched GIS Master Plan for an American Heritage River an American Heritage River Designated WatershedDesignated Watershed
GIS for Watershed Analysis
Wilkes-Barre
Nanticoke
GeoSpatial Technologies for Coal Field GeoSpatial Technologies for Coal Field ReclamationReclamation Characterize and Characterize and
AssessAssess– Ecological conditions Ecological conditions
(2000 square mile (2000 square mile area)area)
– Anthracite FieldsAnthracite Fields strip minesstrip mines mine poolmine pool culm banksculm banks acid mine outfallsacid mine outfalls
Geospatial Geospatial
TechnologiesTechnologies– GIS and GPSGIS and GPS– Remote Sensing and Remote Sensing and
Digital Digital PhotogrammetryPhotogrammetry
Watershed AnalysisWatershed Analysis– provide first step to provide first step to
testing landscape-testing landscape-watershed indicators watershed indicators of pollution of pollution
– regional scale regional scale (federal) data(federal) data
PA GIS Consortium
Site of Knox Mine Disaster
from Landscape to Watershed to Stream from Landscape to Watershed to Stream ReachReach
PA GIS Consortium
Ecosystem HierarchyEcosystem Hierarchy
Environmental Environmental Applications of Federal Applications of Federal Data Data (small-scale)(small-scale)
DOI, Office of Surface MiningDOI, Office of Surface Mining– Abandoned Mine Lands (120,000 acres)Abandoned Mine Lands (120,000 acres)– Acid Mine Drainage (51 tons of iron/day on river corridor Acid Mine Drainage (51 tons of iron/day on river corridor
at low flow)at low flow) DOI, U.S. Geological SurveyDOI, U.S. Geological Survey
– Water Quality, Hydrography, WatershedsWater Quality, Hydrography, Watersheds– Digital raster graphs, DOQQDigital raster graphs, DOQQ
EPA EnviroMapper: OpenLinks on WebEPA EnviroMapper: OpenLinks on Web EPAEPA
– Acid Mine StreamsAcid Mine Streams– Mid-Resolution Land Characterization (MRLC)Mid-Resolution Land Characterization (MRLC)– EPA BASINS: STORET Data and Models on GISEPA BASINS: STORET Data and Models on GIS
Poster of GIS Poster of GIS Benefits for Benefits for Environmental Environmental RestorationRestoration
PA GIS ConsortiumLandscape-Watershed Landscape-Watershed AnalysisAnalysis land coverland cover macroinvertebrate communitiesmacroinvertebrate communities biodiversity indexbiodiversity index statistic correlation (land cover vs. water chemistry, macroinvertebrates and statistic correlation (land cover vs. water chemistry, macroinvertebrates and
biodiversity)biodiversity)
Solomon Creek Solomon Creek WatershedWatershed
Taxa RichnessTaxa Richness
Rich Taxa Poor Taxa
Solomon Creek Watershed
Green represents taxa richness variations
USGS mining impacted areas shown in brown
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PROPORTION IN BARREN (MINING)
TA
XA
RIC
HN
ES
S
0
4
8
12
16
0 0.1 0.2 0.3
r = -0.78, P < 0.001
All IndicesAll Indices
Solomon Creek Solomon Creek WatershedWatershed
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Poster of Watershed Poster of Watershed and GIS Analysis and GIS Analysis Flow ChartFlow Chart
USGS Water Quality Survey:USGS Water Quality Survey:The 100 Largest Mine Discharge Sites in the Anthracite The 100 Largest Mine Discharge Sites in the Anthracite
RegionRegion
PA GIS Consortium
EPA EMPACT EPA EMPACT presentation mappresentation map
PA GIS Consortium
What was What was accomplishedaccomplishedin Demonstration in Demonstration ProjectProject
PART 3PART 3
Implemented Implemented locally locally independent, regionally independent, regionally coordinated, multi-purposecoordinated, multi-purpose GIS Deployment Strategy for GIS Deployment Strategy for Central and Northeastern Central and Northeastern PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
PA GIS Consortium Flight Flight 20002000
InitiativeInitiative
Final Target AreaFinal Target Area
Original Target AreaOriginal Target Area
Local and Regional Local and Regional GIS: ImplementationGIS: Implementation
Data acquisition and maintenanceData acquisition and maintenance
Base mapping (parcel management)Base mapping (parcel management)
Hardware and software acquisitionHardware and software acquisition
Education and trainingEducation and training
Technology transferTechnology transfer
Data Distribution Data Distribution Strategy for Regional Strategy for Regional GISGIS
Data Exchange Procedures Data Exchange Procedures – facilitate distributed data storagefacilitate distributed data storage– coordinate maintenance and access coordinate maintenance and access
Design of a GIS Architecture PlanDesign of a GIS Architecture Plan– ArcIMSArcIMS– ESRI Partner Support ESRI Partner Support
– (Chris Cappelli-Philadelphia office)(Chris Cappelli-Philadelphia office)
Internet
PA GIS Consortium
Data Distribution StrategyData Distribution Strategy
LOCALCountyMunicipalityAgencyUniversityOtherL1 L2 L3
PA GIS CONSORTIUMregional coordination
PUBLICOTHER LOCALSTATEFEDERAL
UsersUsers
images
BASICBROWSER
ENHANCEDBROWSER
SDE
ArcIMS
WEB Server
DATADATA
SDESDE
ArcIMS
WEB Server
DATA
Regional Model:Regional Model:Distributed GISDistributed GIS((locally maintained andlocally maintained andregionally coordinated)regionally coordinated)
vectors, features
Large Scale/Local Data
Start-up Start-up Applications of Applications of ArcIMSArcIMS
Parcel Maps and Ortho-photos Parcel Maps and Ortho-photos – Municipal and County PartnersMunicipal and County Partners– Local Large Scale DataLocal Large Scale Data
Local Data linked to EPA EnviroMapperLocal Data linked to EPA EnviroMapper– ““data fusion” local to federaldata fusion” local to federal
Real-time Water Quality InstrumentationReal-time Water Quality Instrumentation– One of five sites in Chesapeake Bay WatershedOne of five sites in Chesapeake Bay Watershed– EPA Community EMPACT “tech-transfer”EPA Community EMPACT “tech-transfer”– Goal: Kiosk link to Baltimore National AquariumGoal: Kiosk link to Baltimore National Aquarium
Community BenefitsCommunity Benefits
Mistake Mistake avoidanceavoidance
Improve data Improve data managementmanagement
Reduced startup Reduced startup times and coststimes and costs
Cost sharing Cost sharing activitiesactivities
Economies of Economies of scalescale
Past deployments Past deployments of this model of this model have produced have produced savings of 10 to savings of 10 to 75 cents on the 75 cents on the dollardollar
of a of a locally independent, regionally locally independent, regionally coordinated coordinated GISGIS
NSDI Project Benefits NSDI Project Benefits and Conclusionand Conclusion
NSDI Project BenefitsNSDI Project Benefits
Community mobilization Community mobilization for environmental for environmental reclamationreclamation
Helping to diminish the Helping to diminish the “Digital Divide”“Digital Divide”
Reduced startup times Reduced startup times and costsand costs
Cost sharing and Cost sharing and reduction activitiesreduction activities
Facilitate land use Facilitate land use planning for “Smart planning for “Smart Growth”Growth”
Launching GIS Launching GIS Watershed PlanWatershed Plan
Deployment of locally Deployment of locally independent GIS with independent GIS with investment in base investment in base map ortho-photosmap ortho-photos
On-Going and Future On-Going and Future Consortium ProjectsConsortium Projects
Environmental Master Plan of the Upper Environmental Master Plan of the Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna WatershedSusquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed
Support to the American Heritage River Support to the American Heritage River InitiativeInitiative
EPA Environmental Initiative (Project EPA Environmental Initiative (Project EMPACT - Chesapeake Bay Watershed)EMPACT - Chesapeake Bay Watershed)
USDA Rural GISUSDA Rural GIS Flight 2000: Data Processing and Flight 2000: Data Processing and
DistributionDistribution
Congressman Paul Congressman Paul Kanjorski and StaffKanjorski and Staff
Department of InteriorDepartment of Interior– NSDI ProgramNSDI Program– FGDCFGDC
U. S. EPA U. S. EPA (Dave Catlin, (Dave Catlin,
NSDI GIS Champion)NSDI GIS Champion)
USDA USDA (sponsor of AHR (sponsor of AHR Navigator, Alex Rogers)Navigator, Alex Rogers)
USGSUSGS U. S. Army Corps of U. S. Army Corps of
EngineersEngineers King’s CollegeKing’s College Wilkes UniversityWilkes University ESRI ESRI (Chris Cappelli)(Chris Cappelli) Sweet SolutionsSweet Solutions Marconi Marconi
Systems/ADRSystems/ADR
AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements
PA GIS Consortium
Contact information:Contact information: pagis.orgpagis.org