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AN OVERVIEW OF THE
QUINAULT INDIAN NATION's
ONGOING INVOLVEMENT WITH
THE EXCHANGE NETWORK
GRANT PROGRAM
NCAI Tribal Exchange Network Meeting
Palm Springs, CA
April 2008
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- Reservation covers ~207,000 acres
- Plus fishing and hunting rights outside
in the “Usual & Accustomed” Areas
- Contains 600 plus miles of mapped rivers
& streams
- >25 water quality monitoring sites
- Collect ph, dissolved oxygen, temperature,
turbidity, E-coli, & analytes for organic
compounds and metals, & tissue samples
- One air quality monitoring site, to monitor the
effects of slash pile burnings from timber
harvests
- Off-reservation the Nation has co-management
responsibilities of multiple fisheries with the
State of Washington: salmon, crab, razor clams,
amongst many
- The air and water quality programs have been
ongoing for 7+ years – much data has been
collected
- Both programs are supported by EPA-funding
- EPA funding of the water quality program comes
from several grants:
- 106 funding
- 319 funding
- GAP funding
Past Activities:
- Applied for and received an Exchange Network
Readiness Grant in FY2004
- This grant was primarily used to “beef up”
the tribal network’s infrastructure:
- Purchased new server, GIS workstations
- Built up principal network backbone to transmit
data at gigabit speed
- Funded training for server administration and
intranet mapping capability development
The “Business” Drivers::
- The Quinault Nation has business needs to
consolidate the accumulated water quality
data into a unified database to make the
- information more usable and accessible
- The EPA has mandated water quality data
reporting for its 106-funded grants since 2006,
prior to that it was voluntary
- Application by the Nation for “treatment as a “state”
by the EPA with respect to water quality
standards
- The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission has
received an Exchange Network grant to establish
a WQX node, along with providing outreach
- and technical support to its member tribes
- The Nation is a Commission member tribe, and
has been designated one of two pilots for testing
- The Water Quality Exchange has “matured” with
regards to standards and developed schemas
The Future:
- The Nation has submitted a grant proposal
for a second round of Exchange Network funding
- This grant’s principal goals are:
- Consolidate all water quality data into a
a single database
- Map the existing water quality data to the
WQX schema and establish workflows to
incorporate future data
- Migrate this database to SQL Server 2005 to
provide secure, managed, multi-user access to
the data
- establish a client node and test its connection to
the NWIFC WQX node, in anticipation of establishing
a production node
- Provide for an additional server to allow for the
separation of applications server and the data
management server functions
- Support tribal participation in the Exchange
Network’s governance structure,
specifically the Network Technical Group (NTG)
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Extend the network’s gigabit transmission to
the tribal Planning department located in the
lower village to enhance their data access
capabilities
Some Issues & Concerns:
- Tribal concern over the release of data into
the “public” domain – its uses and potential
adverse impacts
- The ability to attract and keep the IT personnel
necessary to operate and maintain the exchange
infrastructure, given the constant changes that arise
from ongoing changes in the associated technologies
- The desire to see the incorporation of geospatial
capabilities to the Exchange Network. See the data
in the context of a “map” - like in Google Earth
What we wish to protect and sustain
for the future
THANK YOU
Questions: Please contact Tony Hartrich, QDNR GIS Program Manager
Phone: 360-276-8215, ext. 479
e-mail: [email protected]