Water Resources

A chart of water quality objectives and beneficial uses for the Basin Plan Project.

Basin Plan Project

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Comprehensive services were provided to create GIS layers and associated attribution of regional and statewide water quality standards. A complex relational database was developed in Oracle and utilized ESRI’s ArcSDE product in conjunction with custom web-based User Interfaces to organize and manage the information.

Client: State Water Resources Control Board.

A photo of a creek.

National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)

Updated the NHD using various methodologies such as conflation and editing, and developed mapping standards and business rules.

Client: U.S. Geological Survey.

A landscape of a wetlands stretching over a river and a mountains in the backgronud.

Wetland Status and Trends

Collaborated with Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP) to develop a methodology to assess the change in extent, distribution and type of wetlands in the state of California.

Client: The California Wetlands Monitoring Workgroup with funding from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

A map of the Southern California Wetlands.

Southern California Wetlands Mapping


The purpose of this project was to build on ongoing work by US FWS National Wetland Inventory (NWI), the Resources Agency, the Coastal Conservancy, & SCCWRP to complete an update of wetland habitat maps in Southern California coastal watersheds. The objective of this project was to produce a full set of wetland habitat maps for the region with a base imagery standard of year 2000 or newer.

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A map of the rising sea-level in Port Hueneme, CA.

Sea Level Rise

TheÌýImpact of Sea-Level Rise on Groundwater Pollution Vulnerability in Shallow Coastal AquifersÌýproject is a collaboration to identify areas in California where sea-level rise may cause groundwater levels to increase and mobilize toxic substances from contaminated sites.

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A logo for WaterTalks.

Disadvantaged Community Involvement Program (DACIP)/WaterTalks

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WaterTalksÌýis a public program designed to generate and increase community involvement in planning a sustainable water future for California. Its goal is to explore the strengths and opportunities of communities facing ongoing economic and environmental distress, and to gather input to prioritize and recommend water-related projects based on issues of greatest concern.

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