Status: In Development

data exchange description

This project is being developed with resources provided by the U.S. EPA's Exchange Network Grant Program. The Kentucky Commonwealth Office for Technology (COT) will enhance the use of watershed modeling in Kentucky's environmental decision-making. A web-based portal, the Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal (KWMIP) will quickly and accurately deliver current, and appropriately formatted watershed model input data for 2 to 5 selected models. Training will expand water resource manager's understanding of the uses of modeling to support decision making and enhance the holding community's efficiency and technical capability. The project objectives include the following:

1. Increase the frequency of watershed model use to support environmental decisions;
2. Improve modeling efficiency and quality by serving appropriately formatted data over the web and providing a spatially distributed precipitation model;
3. Leverage existing and developing KY and national data by training KY water resource managers and modelers on the value of modeling, the KWMIP, and supported models;
4. Establish mechanisms to provide technical and financial stability for KWMIP beyond this project;
5. Validate and extend work of OGC to define and develop vendor neutral service interfaces to water modeling component software; and
6. Interface to the current Exchange Network and allow for future inclusion/expansion to Kentucky's node.

contact information

For more information on the Kentucky Watershed Modeling Information Portal, please contact one of the following project partners:

KY Department for Environmental Protection (KYDEP)
KY Office of Geographic Information (OGI)
KY Commonwealth Office of Technology (COT)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region IV
Open GIS Consortium (OGC)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)