Water KnowledgeUniting Community and Technology to

Restore the Santa Fe River

By Will Arnold, Sam Bartlett, Andrew Nelson, and Olivia Richards

•High Water Stress•Low precipitation•Growing population

Source: World Water Council, "Water Crisis," http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/index.php?id=25

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Santa Fe Water: Consumption Vs. Population Vs. River Flow into Reservoirs

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Source: City of Santa Fe, Annual Water Report 2010

Santa Fe Watershed

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March April

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0.2

0.4

0.6

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1.2

March April

0.07

0.33

0.84

0.72

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s)

Month

Average

This Year

Data Source: weatherunderground.com newspaper article: Santa Fe New Mexican5

Water Data Management

Education

Community Involvement

Currently

Aiding the Watershed

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Our Mission

Water Data

Management

Education

Community Involvement

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Objectives

Water Data Management

Education

Community Involvement

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Objectives

Water Data Management

Education

Community Involvement

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Major Sources of Watershed Information

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City of Santa FeFormat of Data

Received Data GIS Layer Spreadsheet Map Report

Watershed boundary

Buckman wells

River outline

Rio Grande outline

Domestic wells

Stream flow

City Boundary

Precipitation

Upper watershed boundary

Water consumption

Reservoir Water Supply

Water Rights

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Santa Fe County

Format of Data

Received Data GIS Layer Spreadsheet Map

County boundary

Elevation layer

Contour lines

Satellite imaging

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USGS

Format of Data

Received Data GIS Layer Spreadsheet Map

Elevation

Monitoring wells

Well depth to water

Underground Geology

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Visualizing Collected Data

Field work conducted

Recorded

on Paper

Entered into a Google

Spreadsheet

Map of Data is

Publicized on

Website

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Buckman Wells: Monitoring Water Level

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Domestic Wells

Stream Gauges

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Objectives

Water Data Management

Education

Community Involvement

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Watershed Modeling• Shows how variables affect water supply

within the watershed

• A tool for making predictions

• Utilizes GIS layers from the city and USGS

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Watershed Model Variables

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Example Sliders

Watershed Model Layers

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Example Buttons

Objectives

Water Data Management

Education

Community Involvement

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Phone Application Design

•Involves community with data collection

•Creates a public photo library of the river over time

•Provides data visualizations within the application

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Conclusion

• Design of Phone Application possessed by the SFWA

• Watershed Model

• Automated Maps of Collected Data

• Maps Embedded on Websites

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Thank youSpecial Thanks to our Sponsor

Special thanks to:

Felicity Broennan for inspiration and guidance

Claudia Borchert and the city of Santa Fe for their cooperation

And the Santa Fe Complex for resources

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Water KnowledgeUniting Community and Technology to

Restore the Santa Fe River

William Arnold Samuel BartlettAndrew NelsonOlivia Richards

May 6, 2011

Email: sf11-water@wpi.eduProject Website: https://sites.google.com/site/santafewater

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