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David KollaschWisconsin

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Dan BakkEPA – Region 5

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RCRAInfo State District FieldRCRAInfo State District Field

Wisconsin has been populating this field for the past eight years each time a handler module source record is created or modified

Report queries using this field are easy to run from

RCRARep

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Wisconsin LQG CEI Wisconsin LQG CEI Evaluations FY09Evaluations FY09

District Count

WI-NE 20

WI-NO 6

WI-SC 6

WI-SE 39

WI-WC 16

87 Total

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Joel HennessyEPA – Region 3

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Polygons in Polygons in RCRAInfoRCRAInfoMapping Institutional and Mapping Institutional and

Engineering ControlsEngineering Controls

Joel HennessyLand & Chemicals DivisionEPA Region 3hennessy.joel@epa.govMarch 2 – 3, 2010

2010 RCRAInfo National User Conference

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How do Institutional Controls How do Institutional Controls Protect Human Health & the Protect Human Health & the

Environment?Environment?

Only through awareness and oversight

If you don’t map it, you can’t manage it

Institutional and engineering controls have geographic extents

CA770NG, GW

CA772PR, GC, ID, EP

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Identify the geographic area over Identify the geographic area over which the control applies which the control applies (examples):(examples):

CA770NG event code (engineering control, non-groundwater) for a landfill cap would best be described by the areal extent of the cap.

CA772PR event code (institutional control, proprietary) for an environmental covenant which restricts site use to non-residential would best be described by the site-wide property boundary.

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ThreeThree--tiered Approach to tiered Approach to Institutional Control Mapping:Institutional Control Mapping:

Website

Database

One-Call

Mapping & use by others

Cleanups in My Community(EPA mapping tool)

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RCRAInfoRCRAInfo

Version 4

Deployed December 2008

GIS module allows points, lines, and polygons

Lines and Polygons as multiple latitude/longitude pairs

‏(75.123456- ,35.987654)

‏(75.123400- ,35.987600)

WOW! Look at this!

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RCRAInfoRCRAInfo (criticisms)(criticisms)

Point data no good, why do we think polygon data (if we can get it) will be any better?

Feed the beast, what’s the benefit?

RCRA

Info

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ProblemsProblems

Need to validate geographic dataNeed to fix existing point data• Datum (NAD27, NAD83, WGS84, unknown)• DMS input as decimal degrees• Longitude as negative number• Typos, interpolations on paper maps, center of

zip, geocoding (street address)Need polygonsNeed easy way to load into RCRAInfoNeed easy way to get data back out, in a useable format

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Solution: Google EarthSolution: Google Earth

Puts the “where” in awareness

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Geographic DataGeographic Data

kml shpDMS

UTM

Google Earth

kml

kml

NAD27

csv

NAD83xls

txt

Decimal degrees

WGS84

West longitude negative number

metes &

bounds

State

plane

address

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What is a KML?What is a KML?

KML is the language of Google Earth• Keyhole Markup

Language• Viewable in Notepad• Only uses

longitude/latitude in decimal degrees, WGS 1984

• West longitude is negative number

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.1"><Document><Placemark>

<name>1</name><description></description><Polygon>

<outerBoundaryIs><LinearRing>

<coordinates>-74.75259347899822,40.16361903968762-74.75658379160309,40.16258879706341-74.75607813718325,40.16040450401132-74.75596830359727,40.16020067160201-74.75782426948162,40.15974536685337-74.75769408031101,40.1593732859146-74.74787932039916,40.15284217881528-74.75061407822378,40.1590012584114-74.75119904272145,40.15885779919279-74.75050207229722,40.1569945956476-74.75080768783214,40.15691157854628-74.75075617434207,40.15675408739693-74.75186535437884,40.15648087332984-74.75389865498401,40.16053321471507-74.75165927999731,40.16116266175045-74.75179498932656,40.16145964833048-74.75166947523793,40.1614956174953-74.75259347899822,40.16361903968762

</coordinates></LinearRing>

</outerBoundaryIs></Polygon>

</Placemark></Document></kml>

Gamesa.kml

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Save asKML

Exportto KML

View inGoogleEarth

Conversionto flat file

Translationupload

RCRAInfo

Regon 3

RCRAInfo – KML Convertor

Geographic data FIX

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How to get Polygon KMLs• Provided by facility (CSV or KML)• Extracted from GIS shapefile• COGO with metes & bounds• County GIS layers (tax maps)

How to deal with curved property boundariesCOGO (coordinate geometry)• Need starting point coordinates• Need to correct direction (north is not north)• Bad descriptions

Notes field in RCRAInfo events• Include descriptions and links – will appear in

generated KML

Lessons LearnedLessons Learned

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Validate and Fix Point DataValidate and Fix Point Data

Existing Point Data• Made individual point KML files for each site from

RCRAInfo location data• Looked at each in GE, adjusted points to correct

location, saved revised KML• Convert KML to CSV, bulk upload to RCRAInfo by

state – replaced all existing facility lat/longOutcome:• Locations shown on website are now identical to

RCRAInfo locations for every Corrective Action site, all in decimal degrees, WGS84

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Future DirectionsFuture Directions

Export to GPS for oversight• Track (already works via KML)• Point of Interest (POI)• Test different platforms, e.g., handheld gps,

navigation gps, netbook w/ Google Earth

Export to georeferenced Adobe pdf

Link to One-call

Envirofacts, Cleanups in My Community

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Dwane YoungEPA – Headquarters

Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery

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BackgroundBackground

RCRAInfo is the database of record for two Government Performance and Reporting Act (GPRA) measures

• Corrective Action measure• Permitting Measure

In order to make these data more available, EPA is developing Google Earth KML representations of these two baselines

Having good geospatial data allows for cross-program analysis

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Permitting BaselinePermitting Baseline

Gives a representation of all of the Handlers on the baseline and their current status (color coded for ease of reference)

Data will be updated monthly using RCRAInfo data

As locations are improved, new locations will be used upon the refresh of the data

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GIS Analysis: Example 1GIS Analysis: Example 1

Using the Permitting Baseline KML file I can:

• Zoom into a facility and see it’s permitting status• Pull up relevant ground water monitoring stations• Evaluate the results from that monitoring

In order for this to work, a state must have an integrated monitoring program, and be sharing the RCRA monitoring data (very few states are currently doing this)

Example: Western Zirconium (UT)

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GIS Analysis: Example 2A Cross-program ExampleGIS Analysis: Example 2

A Cross-program Example

Using the Permitting Baseline KML file I can and some Office of Water data sources, I can:

• Zoom into a facility and see it’s permitting status• Pull up relevant surface water conditions• Identify the watershed for a given facility• Display surface water monitoring stations in that

watershed• Evaluate monitoring data• Begin contemplating whether or not this facility is

having an impact on water quality

Example: Pueblo Chemical Depot (CO); • Watershed: 11020005; • Waterbody: Arkansas River (Impaired for Selenium)

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Data SourcesData Sources

Permitting KML (EPA Intranet Only): http://intranet.epa.gov/intraosw/pspd/gpra/new/perm-ge.htm

Water KML Services: http://www.epa.gov/waters/tools/WATERSKMZ/WATERSKMZ.html

Water Monitoring Data: www.epa.gov/storet

Monitoring Data Services: http://www.epa.gov/storet/web_services.html

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Questions?Questions?