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Stream and Basin

Situation

• A small number of stream and/or topography basin boundary GIS data errors have been found in the Four Creeks UAC area.  Headwaters for some streams are shown in the “wrong” basin.
• King County does not consider the stream/basin boundary issues as a high-enough importance to prioritize into current GIS workload.
• King County will require high confidence in the quality (accuracy, completeness, etc.) of externally submitted GIS data.
• The Four Creeks Atlas Program (Atlas) provides real-life project opportunities for Green River Community College (GRCC) Geographical Information System (GIS) students.
• Atlas provides scholarship and incentive funding, and seeks out internship and/or temporary and permanent employment opportunities for GRCC GIS students.

Target

• King County stream and basin boundaries are updated to current knowledge.
• Areas where there is a discrepancy between new data and current data are identified and documented.
• GRCC GIS students gain opportunity to work with current GIS raster data in a real-life project.
• GRCC GIS students get to provide project and product data to King County, thus demonstrating their skills.
• King Count’s cost of quality is kept extremely low by reducing or eliminating their inspection requirements by concentrating on the method used by the GRCC GIS student.

Proposal

• King County and the Atlas Program develop and agree on the key elements of the project requirements.
• Request a GRCC GIS student to work on the project via the FCUAC Atlas Program.
• The selected GRCC GIS student develops a project requirements document that includes a description of the method and data used.
• King County develop a minimal cost of quality approach for accepting and publishing the new stream and topography data.

Current project document (Word) (PDF)