Division of Water and Division of Water and GISGIS

Resources For Your EnjoymentResources For Your Enjoyment

Lisa Hicks and Susan Cohn

Kentucky Division of Water

GeoEd 2010 Geospatial Conference

Louisville KY

June 23, 2010

Why We’re HereWhy We’re Here

►Examples of Division of Water dataExamples of Division of Water data MapsMaps Analysis ProjectsAnalysis Projects

►Links to Data SourcesLinks to Data Sources

Groundwater Potentiometric Groundwater Potentiometric Surface Map Surface Map

Karst Study

Land Use for TMDL Land Use for TMDL DevelopmentDevelopment

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Miles

Rockcastle County

Map Created 8/26/09KDOW, TMDL Section

Dix River 73.35-78.7

Legend

Sampling Stations

Brodhead STP

E. Coli-Impaired Segment

(the Individual Segments

are Color-Differentiated)

Animal Feeding Operations

Dix River, Hanging Fork, Clarks Run

24k NHD Streams

County Boundaries

Dix River Watershed Above RM 73.35

Dix River Watershed Study Area

National Landcover Database 2001

Land Use Category

Barren Land

Cultivated Crops

Deciduous Forest

Developed, High Intensity

Developed, Low Intensity

Developed, Medium Intensity

Developed, Open Space

Emergent Herbaceous Wetlands

Evergreen Forest

Grassland/Herbaceous

Mixed Forest

Open Water

Pasture/Hay

Scrub/Shrub

Woody Wetlands

LincolnCounty

Rockcastle County

Gum Sulfur Sampling Station

Copper CreekSampling Station

Brodhead STP

Shows the interconnections of adjacent drinking water systems.

Links to data sources and Links to data sources and viewersviewers

►http://http://kgs.uky.edu/kgsmap/KGS/KGSPortalLinkgs.uky.edu/kgsmap/KGS/KGSPortalLink.aspk.asp

►http://kygeonet.ky.gov/http://kygeonet.ky.gov/►http://kia.ky.gov/wris/http://kia.ky.gov/wris/

Example of Downloadable Example of Downloadable DataData

Current and Future GIS Current and Future GIS Activities and ApplicationsActivities and Applications

►Land Use Analysis with Spatial AnalystLand Use Analysis with Spatial Analyst►NHD StewardshipNHD Stewardship►Relationships of waterways and Relationships of waterways and

infrastructure including permitting infrastructure including permitting decisionsdecisions

►Mapping statewide floodplains including Mapping statewide floodplains including risk analysisrisk analysis

►Water quality assessments integrating Water quality assessments integrating geospatial componentsgeospatial components

Questions? Comments?Questions? Comments?

Kentucky Division of Water

200 Fair Oaks Lane

Frankfort, KY 40601

Phone: 502-564-3410

susan.cohn@ky.gov

lisa.hicks@ky.gov