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Arc Hydro Development in Florida
James Cameron
South Florida Water Management District
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Florida’s Water Management Districts
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Florida’s Water Management Districts
• Created by the Florida Legislature through passage of the
Water Resources Act of 1972
• Four main areas of responsibility:
– Water Supply
– Flood Protection
– Water Quality Management
– Natural Systems Protection
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Arc Hydro in Florida
• 2002 – Arc Hydro: GIS for Water Resources Workshop at
University of Florida
• 2005 – ArcHydro in Florida: Core Principles and
Collaboration at University of Florida
– Goal: Identify “core principles” behind application of GIS tools and
techniques to water resources in the State of Florida
– Core principles include data processing tools, data formats, and
data sharing
– Formed Florida Arc Hydro Working Group (FAHWG)
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Florida Arc Hydro Working Group (FAHWG)
• Florida WMDs, State of Florida Department of
Environmental Protection, various county and local
government agencies and private business interests
• Objectives:
– Develop a statewide common collection of core datasets to support
each stakeholder’s requirements and enable data exchange
– Identify common core fields maintained within these core datasets
– Identify data maintenance methodology for support of these core
datasets
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Proposed Statewide Arc Hydro Database Design
• Issues
– Each WMD Arc Hydro implementation based on different requirements
and use of the data
– Each WMD has various internal requirements, such as database naming
conventions
– Modifications to any of the existing WMD implementations will be resource
intensive
• Decision
– Develop a standard statewide database design
– Establish procedures for data exchange (to and from), based on WMD
previously existing design
• Benefits
– Creates a unified Arc Hydro compliant database for the State of Florida
– Provides Statewide data exchange
– Meets the requirements as identified by the FAHWG
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Establishing Data Exchange Procedures
• XML based approach will be the methodology of choice
• Advantages:
– Facilitating sharing across multiple systems
– Robust, logically verified format based on international standards
– Self-documenting
– Platform independent
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Florida Arc Hydro Users Group (FLAHUG)
• Charter drafted
• Website created www.flahug.org
• FLARCHYDRO Listserv established (last count 161
members)
• Survey completed
– To help guide development of the organization and understand
needs of Arc Hydro users statewide
– Results summarized on website
• Promoting FLAHUG at GIS conferences
• Next Steps
– Acceptance of database design
– Establishment of data exchange procedures Steering Committee
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