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GIS Partnership Summary
NYS
Department of Health's Public Water Supply
Spatial Data Collection Project
2002
GIS Partnership Award Winner
Partnership Purpose and Goal
The purpose of establishing this partnership is to establish a means of collecting spatial information regarding public water supplies. Water supply information collected includes accurate locations for water sources, other facilities and water districts from the over 11,500 public water supply systems in New York.Participants and Resource Contributions
- NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health - remote citrix terminals in each participant office, access to central Safe Drinking Water Information System database, funding and project oversight.
- NYS Department of Health district offices- Nine field offices, funding, field staff, GPS units. 36 Counties
- NYC - All local jurisdictions not served by State Health Department district offices, providing field staff, data entry, GPS locations, map interpolations, quality control responses.
- USEPA - funding, Quality control, data verification
- University at Albany, Geography and Planning Department - Field and GIS staff
Time Frame
Date Partnership
Began: September 1999
Completion Date: On-going
Deliverables
Deliverables include accurate latitudes and longitudes for water sources including wells, intakes, and springs, along with treatment plant locations. Water districts serving 1000 or more people are also deliverables. Availability of specific location information is limited based on security concerns.
Brief Summary of Partnership
This partnership reflects the state's organization regarding protection of public drinking water. Each county or district office and New York City has direct responsibility for protection of the state's 11,500 public drinking water systems. One GIS-oriented task of this partnership is to collect spatial information regarding water systems in support of source water assessments, public health evaluations, and system security. The partnership hinges on common access to a central state database and means of tracking progress in achieving goals in acquiring spatial data. The partnership has worked extremely well in collecting initial data, having entered over 15,500 locations out of the over 16,000 individual source locations to date. All locational data is subjected to a coarse on-line quality filter and GIS-based logical quality control protocol test. Locational errors are returned to partners for subsequent verification and correction.Additional Information Available
On-line
N/A
Contact Information
Thomas Hart
Research Scientist
NYS Department of Health
Center for Environmental Health
547 River Street
Troy, NY
Phone: (518) 402-7714
Fax: (518) 402-7599
E-Mail: tfh01@health.state.ny.us
Thomas Becker
Engineer
NYS Department of Health
Center for Environmental Health
547 River Street
Troy, NY
Phone: (518) 402-7714
Fax: (518) 402-7599
E-Mail: teb04@health.state.ny.us
D. Peter Berical
Research Scientist
NYS Department of Health
Center for Environmental Health
547 River Street
Troy, NY
Phone: (518) 402-7714
Fax: (518) 402-7599
E-Mail: dpb07@health.state.ny.us