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The Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed Community Demonstration Project of the NSDI Program

Learn about the Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed Community Demonstration Project, which established the PA GIS Consortium and launched a GIS master plan for the watershed. Discover the accomplishments, community benefits, and ongoing projects of this multi-purpose GIS initiative.

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The Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed Community Demonstration Project of the NSDI Program

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  1. The Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna WatershedCommunity Demonstration Project of the NSDI Program Dale Bruns and Tom Sweet PA GIS Consortium Sweet Solutions pagis.org

  2. Overview of Presentation • Location and Background • Accomplishments 1 Established PA GIS Consortium 2 Launched GIS Master Plan for an American Heritage River Designated Watershed 3 Implemented design and deployment of a locally independent, regionally coordinated, multi-purpose GIS for Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania • Community Benefits • On-Going and Future Projects

  3. PA GIS Consortium Pennsylvania Chesapeake Bay Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed’s Relationship to the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem Project Location • Susquehanna River drains the largest U.S. river basin on the Atlantic coast • Susquehanna River contributes to over half of the freshwater inflow to the Chesapeake Bay • 120,000 acres of Abandoned Mine Lands within the Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna River Basin • 3600 square miles - watershed delineation with Anthracite Fields

  4. PA GIS Consortium Photo: Typical Pennsylvania Landscape

  5. PA GIS Consortium Photo: Mining Operation

  6. PA GIS Consortium Photo: Proximity of Mining to Human Landscape

  7. PA GIS Consortium Brief History of Area 160 Years of Anthracite Mining • Surface Mining (base of mountain valleys) • Subsurface Mining (980 feet beneath the river) Five Billion Tons of Coal Removed (1807-1967) 1959 Knox Mine Disaster • Breach in the river (100,000 gallons per minute): “runaway” whirlpool • 200 rail cars, rocks, ties, poles, and hay dumped into hole

  8. PA GIS Consortium Filmclip: Knox Mine Disaster

  9. PA GIS Consortium Persistent Water Quality Problems Severely degraded stream with urban debris and mining sediments Mapping mine outfall locations with GPS technologies

  10. PA GIS Consortium Abandoned Mine Lands Strip Mine Culm Bank Reclaimed Land

  11. What was accomplishedin Demonstration Project PART 1 Established PA GIS Consortium

  12. What is the PA GIS Consortium? • Incorporated as a Pennsylvania-based 501(C)(3) • Administered through it’s startup phase by an independent Board of Directors • Looking for local partners, members and sponsors

  13. What is the PA GIS Consortium’s mission? To support the design and deployment of locally independent, regionally coordinated, multi-purpose Geographic Information Systems for Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania

  14. What that means in order of priority • Support the design and deployment of GIS that meet local needs and preserve local independence • Do so in a regionally coordinated manner that increases efficiency and effectiveness • Increase savings and leveraging power by getting multiple uses of the end product(s)

  15. Education Sector Partners • Wilkes University • Center for Geographic Information Sciences • King’s College • The Marketing and Planning (MAP) Center in the William G. McGowan School of Business

  16. Private Sector Partners • ESRI • Marconi Imaging Systems • Aerial Data Reduction (ADR) • CETROM • ERIM

  17. Public Sector Partners (Federal) • Vice President Gore’s National Partnership for Reinventing Government • Federal Geographic Data Committee of the U.S. Department of the Interior • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency • U.S. Department of Agriculture

  18. Public Sector Partners (State) • Pennsylvania Mapping and Geographic Information Consortium • Department of Environmental Protection

  19. Local Partners • Luzerne County • The Town of Bloomsburg • Columbia County • Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry • Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority • Earth Conservancy

  20. Created Regional Visualization Web Sitesmapcenter.org PA GIS Consortium

  21. Regional Visualization Centerpaheritageriver.org/pagis.org PA GIS Consortium pagis.org paheritageriver.org

  22. Regional Visualization Centermapcenter.org PA GIS Consortium mapcenter.org

  23. Regional Visualization Centerpaheritageriver.org PA GIS Consortium paheritageriver.org

  24. Regional Visualization Centerpagis.org 1 PA GIS Consortium pagis.org

  25. Regional Visualization Centerpagis.org 2 PA GIS Consortium

  26. What was accomplishedin Demonstration Project PART 2 Launched GIS Master Plan for an American Heritage River Designated Watershed

  27. PA GIS Consortium GeoSpatial Technologies for Coal Field Reclamation GIS for Watershed Analysis • Characterize and Assess • Ecological conditions (2000 square mile area) • Anthracite Fields • strip mines • mine pool • culm banks • acid mine outfalls • Geospatial Technologies • GIS and GPS • Remote Sensing and Digital Photogrammetry • Watershed Analysis • provide first step to testing landscape-watershed indicators of pollution • regional scale (federal) data Site of Knox Mine Disaster Wilkes-Barre Nanticoke

  28. PA GIS Consortium Ecosystem Hierarchy from Landscape to Watershed to Stream Reach

  29. Environmental Applications of Federal Data (small-scale) • DOI, Office of Surface Mining • Abandoned Mine Lands (120,000 acres) • Acid Mine Drainage (51 tons of iron/day on river corridor at low flow) • DOI, U.S. Geological Survey • Water Quality, Hydrography, Watersheds • Digital raster graphs, DOQQ • EPA EnviroMapper: OpenLinks on Web • EPA • Acid Mine Streams • Mid-Resolution Land Characterization (MRLC) • EPA BASINS: STORET Data and Models on GIS

  30. Poster of GIS Benefits for Environmental Restoration

  31. PA GIS Consortium Landscape-Watershed Analysis land cover macroinvertebrate communities biodiversity index statistic correlation (land cover vs. water chemistry, macroinvertebrates and biodiversity)

  32. PA GIS Consortium Solomon Creek Watershed Green represents taxa richness variations USGS mining impacted areas shown in brown Rich Taxa Poor Taxa Solomon Creek Watershed Taxa Richness

  33. All Indices Solomon Creek Watershed PA GIS Consortium

  34. Poster of Watershed and GIS Analysis Flow Chart

  35. PA GIS Consortium USGS Water Quality Survey:The 100 Largest Mine Discharge Sites in the Anthracite Region

  36. EPA EMPACT presentation map PA GIS Consortium

  37. What was accomplishedin Demonstration Project PART 3 Implemented locally independent, regionally coordinated, multi-purpose GIS Deployment Strategy for Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania

  38. PA GIS Consortium Flight 2000Initiative Original Target Area Final Target Area

  39. Local and Regional GIS: Implementation • Data acquisition and maintenance • Base mapping (parcel management) • Hardware and software acquisition • Education and training • Technology transfer

  40. Data Distribution Strategy for Regional GIS • Data Exchange Procedures • facilitate distributed data storage • coordinate maintenance and access • Design of a GIS Architecture Plan • ArcIMS • ESRI Partner Support • (Chris Cappelli-Philadelphia office)

  41. PA GIS Consortium Data Distribution Strategy Users Regional Model: Distributed GIS (locally maintained and regionally coordinated) ENHANCED BROWSER BASIC BROWSER PUBLIC OTHER LOCAL STATE FEDERAL vectors, features images Internet PA GIS CONSORTIUM regional coordination WEB Server WEB Server ArcIMS ArcIMS SDE SDE SDE LOCAL County Municipality Agency University Other DATA DATA DATA L2 L3 L1 Large Scale/Local Data

  42. Start-up Applications of ArcIMS • Parcel Maps and Ortho-photos • Municipal and County Partners • Local Large Scale Data • Local Data linked to EPA EnviroMapper • “data fusion” local to federal • Real-time Water Quality Instrumentation • One of five sites in Chesapeake Bay Watershed • EPA Community EMPACT “tech-transfer” • Goal: Kiosk link to Baltimore National Aquarium

  43. Mistake avoidance Improve data management Reduced startup times and costs Cost sharing activities Economies of scale Past deployments of this model have produced savings of 10 to 75 cents on the dollar Community Benefits of a locally independent, regionally coordinated GIS

  44. NSDI Project Benefits and Conclusion

  45. Community mobilization for environmental reclamation Helping to diminish the “Digital Divide” Reduced startup times and costs Cost sharing and reduction activities Facilitate land use planning for “Smart Growth” Launching GIS Watershed Plan Deployment of locally independent GIS with investment in base map ortho-photos NSDI Project Benefits

  46. On-Going and Future Consortium Projects Environmental Master Plan of the Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed Support to the American Heritage River Initiative EPA Environmental Initiative (Project EMPACT - Chesapeake Bay Watershed) USDA Rural GIS Flight 2000: Data Processing and Distribution

  47. Congressman Paul Kanjorski and Staff Department of Interior NSDI Program FGDC U. S. EPA (Dave Catlin, NSDI GIS Champion) USDA (sponsor of AHR Navigator, Alex Rogers) USGS U. S. Army Corps of Engineers King’s College Wilkes University ESRI (Chris Cappelli) Sweet Solutions Marconi Systems/ADR Acknowledgements

  48. PA GIS Consortium Contact information:pagis.org

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