Georgia department of natural resources, environmental protection division EPD data quality improvements to non farm surface water and groundwater program usage database to support georgia EPD wudr…

Georgia department of natural resources, environmental protection division EPD data quality improvements to non farm surface water and groundwater program usage database to support georgia EPD wudr projectproject period 9 30 2022 through 9 29 2024 the georgia environmental protection division EPD , part of the georgia department natural resources, is a current provider of water use information to the public including the u s geological survey USGS this project is to support the advancement of georgia EPD s water use data collection, including improvements to develop a fully functional cloud based database with an overall improvement in compliance and permit requirement tracking during this project the EPD will incorporate relevant permit compliance requirements, including low flow protection and water efficiency requirements, into the cloud based database the project will also incorporate water purchases and sales between different water systems as well as interbasin transfer data to calculate per capita and industrial usage per unit within the database, separate fields will be developed such as the water withdrawn for general water use categories including residential, commercial, and industrial water usage and the gallons of water used to produce a quantity of product for permitted industrial facilities water efficiency data compiled from the annual water audits will also be incorporated into the database so EPD can track whether a system is improving its water efficiency over time overall, the project will improve data collection, analysis, and transmittal of data managed by the non farm surface water and groundwater units within EPD access to this data will allow georgia EPD to easily share IT with other agencies, including USGS, to make future regulatory and policy decisions and establish national trends additionally, these improvements will increase the USGS tier level for the public supply, industrial, and irrigation golf course use categories the funding for the two year project is 125,000 00 as part of the project, georgia EPD will 1 deliver a project status report every six months of work 2 allow the USGS full access to all data produced during the project 3 ensure that the new cloud based database gives appropriate access to public data and, 4 produce a final technical report documenting all work accomplished during the project the beneficiaries of the work will be the georgia EPD, water users within georgia, and users of data provided by the USGS national water information system