The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, partnering with the Minnesota Department of Administration's Land Management Information Center and working through the Minnesota Governor's Council on Geographic Information Hydrography Committee, proposes to enter into a cooperative agreement with U.S. EPA to research and develop the systems and methodologies necessary to support hydrographic-related geospatial data exchanges. Successful implementation of this system will allow other state and Federal partners to share and exchange their data, saving resources and ensuring access to the most curret and complete data.
This project is designed to achieve the following goals and objectives:
Develop a common repository of features and activities that geographically relate to or affect surface waters. Develop a reach address database, similar in concept to U.S. EPA's RAD.
Establish the reach address database as a competent repository of features and activities for Minnesota users to share.
Develop the data exchanges to enable both general and 303(d)-specific hydrologic-related geospatial data to be shared through the Exchange Network.
Develope statewide policies and procedures for NHD hydrologic feature and event data update, maintenance, and distribution.
Use this system to maintain an authoritative source of 1:24,000 scale NHD data for a state.
implementation resources
Implementation resources for this data exchange are currently in development.
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