Common Data Repository and Water Resource Assessment for the Southern and Northern Piceance Basin

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Common Data Repository and Water Resource
Assessment for the Southern and Northern Piceance
Basin

• Northwest Colorado Oil and Gas Forum
• June 2008
• Jude Thomas, Pete McMahon, Catherine Costello,
  and Kirby Wynn
• U.S. Geological Survey
• Maria Pastore, representing West Divide WCD

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Southern Piceance Basin Study area
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• Northern Piceance Basin Study area

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Outline

• Brief introduction about the USGS
• USGS activities in the Piceance Basin
• Southern Piceance Basin
• Northern Piceance Basin
• Approach, benefits, and products of common water
  data repository and resource assessment
• Brief demo of Web interface to Common Data
  Repository

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USGS Water-Resource Role

• Science Agency, non regulatory
• Assess the quantity and quality of the Nations
  water supplies
• Collect data and conduct water-resources
  investigations to support local, State, and
  Federal needs
• Maintain nationwide hydrologic-data network and
  publicly available database

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USGS Water Quality Related Activities in the
Piceance Basin

• Southern Piceance Basin
• Common Data Repository and Resource Assessment
• USGS funded research proposal looking at the
  Distribution of Redox Processes and Ground-Water
  Ages in Aquifers of the Southern Piceance Basin.
  
• Northern Piceance Basin
• Common Data Repository and Resource Assessment
• Baseline Hydrologic Information Gathering for BLM
• Currently are conducting surface water monitoring
  (water quantity and quality)
• Will begin ground water monitoring and assessment
  in the next few months

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Approach for Common Data Repository and Resource
Assessment

• Assemble existing data from public and private
  sources
• Create relational database, standardize data, and
  make database accessible via internet
• Perform baseline assessment of available water
  resource data
• Develop regional monitoring strategies

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Benefits of Common Data Repository and Resource
Assessment

• Economic
• Internally consistent database
• Expand database for individual companies,
  agencies, stakeholders
• Reduce data compilation and manipulation time
• Improve efficiency of monitoring programs
• Management
• Understanding leads to management tools (models)
  and effective best-management practices
• Public Outreach
• Education and Openness
• Regulatory
• Regional baseline
• Natural variability versus human disturbance

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Products of Common Data Repository and Resource
Assessment

• Common Data Repository, web interface, and
  assessment report of baseline hydrologic
  conditions.
• Preliminary list of indicator parameters to
  understand energy effects on regional water
  resources.
• Regional monitoring plan
• Streamline existing monitoring programs
• Fill data gaps
• Maximize utility for spatial and temporal
  assessment

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We have created and continue to maintain similar
products in the Eagle River, Blue River, Upper
Gunnison, and Roaring Fork River watersheds
Demo of Common Data Repository
visit the Roaring Fork watershed site at
http//co.water.usgs.gov/cf/roaringforkcf/default.
cfm
The new product will be developed to meet unique
interests of the general public, industry, and
others
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Home Page
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Sites By Map
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Sample Selection
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Parameter Selection
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Retrieval summary
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Summary

• Broad Collaboration to address questions about
  water quality
• Innovative approach allows willing participants
  the ability to toss out old assumptions regarding
  roles and responsibility
• Web accessible Common Data Repository
• Data synthesis
• Baseline Assessment
• Regional Monitoring Plan
• Gather input from interested parties to develop
  the best product