Washington Hydrography Framework
INITIAL HYDROGRAPHY BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS WITH IDENTIFIED DRIVERS AND DATA REQUIREMENTS
| Functional Business Areas | Business Drivers | Data Required to Support Identified Business Needs |
| Permitting | ||
| Various Types within an Organization | Forest Emergency Management Act | Water bodies (lakes, ponds, etc.) |
| Forest Practices Act | Water Course (streams, canals, etc.) | |
| Water Rights Legislation | Stream Crossing | |
| Shoreline Management Act | Historical Morphology (courses) | |
| Growth Management Act | Stream Direction of Flow | |
| Clean Water Act | Marine Areas/Estuaries | |
| Endangered Species Act | Shoreline segments | |
| Agency Enabling Act | Stream segments | |
| Public Health & Safety | Shorelines (various types) | |
| Agency Authorities | Wetlands (various types) | |
| Wetlands Protection Act | Aquaducts/Pipelines | |
| Safe Drinking Water Act | Irrigation/waste ways | |
| FLPMA (NEPA) | Shoreline associated wetlands | |
| Shoreline (mgmt. areas, setbacks) | ||
| Natural Drainage Delineation | ||
| Physical structures (dams, bridges) | ||
| Permit Withdraws & Allocations | ||
| Water Extractions (diversions) | ||
| Water Quality | ||
| Discharge (point of return) | ||
| Overflow conveyances | ||
| Administrative Areas | ||
| Irrigation/waste ways | ||
| Cleanup Areas | ||
| Banks | ||
| Riparian management zones | ||
| Bathymetry | ||
| Water Point Wells | ||
| Fish Blockages/Barriers | ||
| Functional Business Areas | Reclamation Reform Act | |
Environmental Assessment/Planning |
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| Hydrologic Modeling | Reclamation Act | Waterbodies (lakes, ponds, etc.) |
| Impacts | Rivers & Harbor Act | Water Course (streams, canals, etc)) |
| Water Quality | Interstate Commerce | Admin. Basins (WRIA/HUC/WAU) |
| Various Other Types | Clean Water Act | Natural Drainage Basins |
| Model Toxic Control Act | Stream Order | |
| Stream Direction of Flow | ||
| Aquatic Habitat | ||
| Species Locations | ||
| Mitigation Sites | ||
| Substrate | ||
| Stormwater Treatment Facility | ||
| Periodicity/Time Steps | ||
| Enviro. Significant Units (ESU) | ||
| Water Flow/Temperature | ||
| Flow Direction | ||
| Stream Routes | ||
| Gradient | ||
| Stream Width | ||
| Sediment Loading | ||
| Water Supply | ||
| Waste Load Allocation | ||
| Flood Plane Boundaries | ||
| Surface/Ground Water Interaction | ||
| Habitat Enhancement | ||
| Environmental Monitoring Locations | ||
Functional Business Areas |
Business Drivers | Data Required to Support Identified Business Needs |
| Recreational Use | ||
| Northwest Forest Plan | Waterbodies (lakes, ponds, etc) | |
| Columbia River Basin Plan | Water Course (streams, canals, etc) | |
| Forest Emergency Management Act | Marine Areas/Estuaries | |
| Timber/Fish/Wildlife Agreement | Shoreline (mgmt. areas, setbacks) | |
| Shoreline Management Act | Land ownership | |
| Growth Management Act | Fish Distributions | |
| Clean Water Act | Habitat Enhancement | |
| Endangered Species Act | Use/Designation | |
| Agency Enabling Act | ||
| Public Health & Safety | ||
| Agency Authorities | ||
| Wetlands Protection Act | ||
| Reclamation Reform Act | ||
| Reclamation Act | ||
| Rivers & Harbor Act | ||
| International & Tribal Treaties | ||
| Interstate Compacts | ||
| Interstate Commerce Act | ||
| American Disability Act | ||
| SEPA | ||
| Functional Business Areas | Business Drivers | Data Required to Support Identified Business Needs |
| Map Making | ||
| Forest Emergency Management Act | Includes data listed in the other business areas | |
| Forest Practices Act | Projection Information (units, datum, system, zone, precision) | |
| Water Rights Legislation | Scale Dependency/Threshold | |
| Shoreline Management Act | Data Source (input method, update method, organization, and other metadata tied to the feature) | |
| Growth Management Act | Stream Order | |
| Clean Water Act | Stream gauging stations | |
| Endangered Species Act | Multitude of other data layers required | |
| Agency Enabling Act | ||
| Public Health & Safety | ||
| Agency Authorities | ||
| Wetlands Protection Act | ||
| Safe Drinking Water Act | ||
| FLPMA (NEPA) | ||
| Reclamation Reform Act | ||
| Reclamation Act | ||
| Rivers & Harbor Act | ||
| Interstate Commerce | ||
November 1997