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CONSIDER APPROVING A CONTRACT WITH
TIERRA PLAN IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $8,000 TO MAINTAIN AND PROVIDE
ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO THE MPWMD STREAM FLOW DATA PORTAL AS A PUBLIC
FACING DATABASE WEB SERVER |
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Meeting Date: |
January, 16, 2024 |
Budgeted: |
Yes |
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From: |
Dave Stoldt |
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General Manager |
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Prepared By: |
Jonathan Lear |
Cost Estimate: |
$8,000 |
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General
Counsel Approval: N/A |
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Committee
Recommendation: The Finance and Administration
Committee reviewed this item on January 16, 2024 and
recommended ________________. |
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CEQA Compliance: N/A |
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SUMMARY: Currently, the District maintains
15 stream gages, 3 weather stations, and 2 water level monitoring
stations. The stations collect 15-minute
data and store the data locally to the stations on their data loggers. Last year, District Staff worked with Tierra
Plan to develop an API based data server to make the data better accessible to
District Staff and the Public. The Water
Resources Division also underwent a stream gage upgrade adding telemetry to the
remaining 10 gages and brought those stations into the Web Portal, so the
stations are available in real time.
There was a desire from the Hydrology and Fish
Biology Staff to have all that data collected into a dashboard so that MPWMD
staff can know current River conditions when planning field work. All of this work has
been completed and the data product can be viewed here (https://map.mpwmd.net/?page=map). Since completing the first version of the Web
Portal, District staff has identified the desire to bring in more rain gage
networks operated by Monterey County and Department of Water Resources. Tierra Plan has recommended an annual
maintenance contract to keep up with software and operating system
updates. An additional 40 hours of
additional development to add new sensors or different types of data, such as
groundwater to facilitate data sharing with neighboring Groundwater
Sustainability Agencies. This contract
is structured as time and expense, so if no work is completed, the District will not incur costs.
RECOMMENDATION: The Finance and Administration Committee should recommend
that the Board authorize District staff to enter into a contract for an amount
not-to-exceed $8,000 with Tierra Plan to maintain and provide additional
development to the District’s public-facing database
web server for the District’s stream and rain gage networks. This item is budgeted in the FY 2023-2024
Budget under District Wide Hydrologic Monitoring.
BACKGROUND: The Water Resources Division is at the end of a 2-step
upgrade to the District’s stream gage network. The first step completed included upgrades to
the gage data loggers and telemetry to all the gages in the network. The second step was to bring the data into a
Web Portal. District staff had requested to have a
dashboard built where real time River conditions could be accessed to help
inform fieldwork. This work was
completed in calendar year 2023.
Users can now download customizable date data
tables from any of the District’s gages. This functionality saves staff time and gets
the data into the hands of the public faster as currently District Hydrologists
complete each data request when a request is received as schedules allow.
The work funded by this contract will be
completed by December 31, 2024, termed “fiscal year” on Exhibit 3-A.
IMPACT TO
STAFF/RESOURCES: District
Staff will work with Tierra Plan to customize this tool to best fit the District’s need.
EXHIBIT
3-A Water Portal Technical
Support and Additional Development
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