Water Quality GeoWeb Mapper

About the Program

Category: County Resiliency (Best in Category)

Year: 2020

The BC-Water Quality GeoWeb Mapper (GeoWeb) dashboards are innovative web-based platforms that inform the public about the health of the waterways in Broward County. The GeoWeb Mapper consists of the Water Quality and the Bacterial Assessment Dashboards. These GIS-based dashboards are managed by the Environmental Monitoring Laboratory and offer online interactivity that allows users to easily explore and visualize water quality data with options to customize site location, time period, water quality parameters, and time-series serial charts. It is designed to provide citizens, scientists, professionals, planners and managers with comprehensive and current water quality status information, including related hydrologic and microbial datasets. The Geoweb Mapper has gained importance to commissioners, directors and managers in the county as a tool in the decision-making process pertaining to regulatory water quality issues. It also provides a localized source of information on the water quality status for neighborhoods and communities within the county on water-related environmental issues. Currently, the mapper has been viewed by over 100 people in the one month since it was launched. The mapper is open-access and available to the public. It is updated on a monthly basis for the harmful algae bloom project and on a quarterly basis for the navigational canal water quality analysis in Broward County.