Hydrography Work Group

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Hydrography Work Group

• ISB-GIT
• January 16, 2007

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Overview of Progress to Date

• Hydrography work group (documenter team) drafted
  charter
• Decision Package Mapping Washingtons Water
  Resources not included in the Governor's budget

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Decision Package Assessment and Lessons Learned

• Follow-up discussions with
• IACs Natural Resource POG representative -
  ranked 44 in buy-next category
• SWIMTAC staff involved in the writing the hydro
  decision package
• Confirmation of on-going support for decision
  package at WDFW, ECY, and DNR
• SWIMTAC discussion with OFM, Puget Sound Action
  Team and Governor's Salmon Recover Office
  representatives
• Forums budget debriefing on January 25th

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Options for Moving Forward

• Suggestions for moving hydrography data
  initiative forward
• Begin work on revising Hydro standards and
  business processes
• Executives presentation to Salmon Recover Fund
  Board
• In future, get local jurisdiction or tribal
  support for funding requests
• Find an administrative account (not GF-State
  funds) for doing future pilot project

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Options for Moving Forward

• Continued Suggestions
• Find another state agency (DOT) to push
  importance of HYDRO data consolidation
• Better document what the problem really is
• Tie results of consolidation to state business
  needs and added cost of environmental reviews and
  lost opportunities
• Agencies should update the 1998 hydro data
  standard and identify business process to support
  it

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Recommended Next Steps

• Re-scope draft Hydro Charter in light of the
  decision package results
• Focus on updating standards and designing
  business processes for managing enterprise hydro
  dataset.
• Document existing business processes.
• Update logical data model and propose as ISB-GIT
  data standard.
• Define summary level target solution for
  consolidated hydrography data maintenance.
• Provide staff resources needed to completed the
  Hydro Work Group efforts.

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Committee Discussion
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Hydrography Motion

• I move that the Committee
• Authorize development of an alternate approach to
  achieve a single source for hydrography as
  outlined in Objective One of the Mapping
  Washington Water Resources funding request.