enhancement of hydrological monitoring and data management
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Enhancement of hydrological monitoring and data management in Western Australia
Liz WesternA/Director Regional Management and Water Information
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Western Australia’s key challenges•
WA is a State with vast distances–
Disbursed monitoring networks
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3G coverage focused on major population centres in SW
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high Satellite call costs–
Harsh environments
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Reliance on groundwater–
High cost of drilling and maintaining bores
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Vandalism and other hazards–
Age of monitoring network 3G coverage
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Kimberley / Pilbara Gorges, tree lined channels, open spinifex plains
Wet season monsoons, storms and cyclones (Kimberley) Cyclones and storms (Pilbara)
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Mid West Shallow valleys, light tree cover
Moderated winter fronts, summer storms and cyclones
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South West / South Coast Forested valleys
Winter fronts and summer storms
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BOM assistance 2007-2010•
2007-08 -
$1,485,770
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2008-09 -
$2,218,322•
2009-10 -
$1,881,265
TOTAL $5,585,357Department of Water
Water Corporation
Department Environment and Conservation
Department of Agriculture and Food
Forest Products Commission
Ord Irrigation Cooperative
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BOM funded projects 2007-2010•Equipment Purchases 12 projects•Data transfer & system improvements
9 projects
•Improved monitoring coverage
9 projects
•Data improvement 6 projects•Data capture/backlogs 3 projects•Telemetry 6 projects
•Spatial data capture 3 projects
•SWIC and NWAC 3 projects
•Other 2 projects
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Highlights•
Equipment Purchases–
Low, medium & high flow gauging equipment
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Acoustic dopplers
& powered travellerways–
Toughbooks
for infield data capture
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Upgrading of ageing toroid EC sensors
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Highlights•
Data transfer and system improvements–
WIN database upgrade
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Water Corporation PI system improvements
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Agriculture WA Agbores
upgrade–
Centralised DEC historical data collection and transfer
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Highlights•
Improved monitoring coverage–
Canning river meteorological & hydrological monitoring
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FPC install 4 streamflow
monitoring sites–
Establish new, refurbish & reconfigure existing gauging stations in the Midwest
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Re-establish stream gauging at long term catchments Shannon (1963-99) and Gardner (1964-99) rivers (Climate change/Wild rivers)
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Highlights•
Data improvement–
Surface geometry data capture at 4 Pilbara gauging stations
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Bore details audit–
Semi-automated data validation process for Hydstra
files to improve timeliness of data availability eliminating backlogs
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Highlights•
Data improvement (continued)–
Refinement of Discharge Ratings using new technologies such as LIDAR (aerial survey) and RTK (Hand-held satellite communications).
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Major mid-west flood warning catchments are now rated –
previously impossible (Irwin Moore)
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Highlights•
Telemetry–
Loggers & telemetry at 10 monitoring bores Carnarvon
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Loggers & telemetry at 26 monitoring bores in Northern Gnangara Mound
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Further expand the number of loggers & telemetry on bores in the Gnangara Mound
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Five Neon satellite systems in the Kimberley and NextG
in Perth
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Highlights•
Spatial data capture–
Improve reservoirs geodatabase
for WA
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Capture drainage datasets for the Swan-Canning catchment
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Highlights
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SWIC•
NWAC
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State Commitments•
State Water Accounting team of 3
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Biological module for WIN database (joint NWC)
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Metering project & centralisation of meter data into WIN
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State network of 350 gauging stations – 50% telemetered and data available at
www.water.wa.gov.au
1997
19981999
2000
2001
2002
20032004
2005
2006
20072008
-3.75
-3.50
-3.25
-3.00
-2.75
-2.50
-2.25
-2.00
-1.75
-1.50
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
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ater
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State Commitments•
State network of 3000 bores –
data
collection an increased focus•
Ongoing project to capture accession report data into WIN
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Service 3,000 data requests pa –
majority from commerce, consultants and private stakeholders
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95 staff working in Water Information Collection, Data Management and Provision
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$5.5 million annual maintenance budget
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State Commitments
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Hydrography training program