SICoP/Digital Harbor Pilot - Water Resources Use Case, August 20, 2005

This is for a presentation to Mike Cullen (Portal), John Sullivan (SOA), and ROE 2006 Team (Enterprise Integration) in the EPA CIO's Office.

(1) I have all the text and graphics converted from PDF to Word. See http://web-services.gov/lpBin22/lpext.dll/Folder5/Infobase5/1?fn=main-j.htm&f=templates&2.0
(2) The Water data sources URL and documents are listed below.
(3) I have the categorization of the EPA CIO's Office Conference by the Composite Application Ontology (SOA, Portals, and Enterprise Integration) in preparation (see http://www.aaaw2005.com/)

See http://www.epa.gov/ncea/ROEIndicators/

Water
1. Water and Watersheds
1.1 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs: Mature Females - Spawning Stock Abundance
The data source for this indicator is Chesapeake Bay, Trends and Indicators, http://www.chesapeakebay.net/pubs/statustrends/75-data-2002.xls Derek Orner, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (derek.orner@noaa.gov)

1.2 Coastal Benthic Index
The data source for this indicator is the National Coastal Condition Report II, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2004. http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/nccr/2005/downloads.html

1.3 Coastal Condition Index
The data source for this indicator is the National Coastal Condition Report II, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2004. http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/nccr/2005/downloads.html

1.4 Coastal Habitat Index
Data for this indicator were provided from a special study by the National Wetlands Inventory to be compiled and presented in the National Coastal Condition Report II, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2004. This report was prepared by EPA’s Offices of Water and Research and Development. See http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/nccr/

1.5 Coastal Sediment Quality Index
The data source for this indicator is the National Coastal Condition Report II, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2004. http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/nccr/2005/downloads.html

1.6 Coastal Water Quality Index
The data source for this indicator is the National Coastal Condition Report II, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2004. http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/nccr/2005/downloads.html

1.7 Extent of Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico and Long Island Sound
Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR). 2000. Integrated Assessment of Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. National Science and Technology Council Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Washington, DC. http://www.nos.noaa.gov/Products/pubs_hypox.html Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST). 1999. Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia: Land and Sea Interactions. Task Force Report No. 134.

1.8 Harmful Algal Bloom Outbreaks
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/habsos; http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/habsos.

1.9 Lake & Stream Acidity
Stoddard, J. L., J. S. Kahl, F. A. Deviney, D. R. DeWalle, C. T. Driscoll, A. T. Herlihy, J. H. Kellogg, P. S. Murdoch, J. R. Webb, and K. E. Webster. Response of surface water chemistry to the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. 2003. EPA/620/R-03/001, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.

1.10 Nitrate and Pesticides in Groundwater in Agricultural Watersheds
The data sources for this indicator were the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program, as compiled for The Heinz Center (2002), http://www.heinzctr.org/ecosystems/farm/pest_strms.shtml. Additional information about the NAWQA data used in the Heinz Center report can be found at: http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/heinz_ctr/.

1.11 Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Chesapeake Bay
Virginia Institute of Marine Science. The SAV distribution data files are located at http://www.vims.edu/bio/sav/savdata.html. The data used to construct the chart are located at http://www.chesapeakebay.net/pubs/statustrends/88-data-2002.xls. The SAV indicator is published at http://www.chesapeakebay.net/status.cfm?sid=88.

1.12 Wetland Extent, Change, and Sources of Change
Dahl, T.E. and C.E. Johnson. Status and Trends of Wetlands in the Conterminous United States, Mid-1970's to Mid-1980's, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1991.

1.13 Nitrate, Phosphorus, and Pesticides in Streams in Agricultural Watersheds
Data for this indicator were collected and compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. More information on this program can be found at http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/.

1.14 Nitrogen and Phosphorus Discharges from Large Rivers
Data for this indicator were collected and analyzed by USGS. Indicator derivation (project, program, organization, report): USGS, NASQAN and NAWQA programs, and the USGS Federal-State Cooperative Program. USGS data web site: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/. Additional data and modeling of recent nitrogen loads in the Mississippi and Columbia may be obtained from USGS’s NASQAN website: http://water.usgs.gov/nasqan.

2. Drinking Water
2.1 Populations Served by Community Water Systems with No Reported Health-Based Violations
The underlying database for this indicator is EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System/Federal version.

http://www.epa.gov/safewater/data/pdfs/factoids_2003.pdf [NOTE: the FY2004 factoids have been provided for this indicator, but are not yet posted online]
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/data/getdata.html

3. Consumption of Fish and Shellfish
3.1 Coastal Fish Tissue Contaminants Index
The data source for this indicator is the National Coastal Condition Report II, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2004. http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/nccr/2005/downloads.html