Database of Implemented Stormwater Controls (DISC)
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| Owners: | Benjamin Choat |
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| Created: | Feb 01, 2021 at 9:36 p.m. |
| Last updated: | Jun 18, 2024 at 2:36 p.m. |
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| Sharing Status: | Public |
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Abstract
The data available here in the Database of Implemented Stormwater Controls (DISC) is a product of two manuscripts. 1. Synthesizing Stormwater Infrastructure in United States Cities: Are we speaking the same language? and 2. A cross-city comparison to understand selection of stormwater controls in United States cities. Not all cities included in the analyses presented in those papers allowed data to be shared, so spatial data of stormwater control measures (SCMs) is available via this resource for 17 of the 23 cities. Another city allowed spatial data to be shared directly with other researchers but not publicly, and two additional cities allowed for lists of their SCMs to be shared publicly, but not their spatial data.
The data as we received it from various sources is available and may include data other than SCM data (e.g., pipe network data). There is also a geodatabase available that contains SCMs clipped to city boundaries. This is the data we used in the manuscripts mentioned above. We did not standardize the datasets to contain the same data nor format of data.
We hope that this database of implemented stormwater controls (DISC) will be expanded upon by contributions from other individuals.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1828902.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
We are extremely grateful to those who were able and willing to share their data with us. I will work to include acknowledgments for all cities that provided data and for all online resources we used.
Here is a start:
- Thank you to the City of Austin for making your data publically available at : https://data.austintexas.gov/browse?q=UTILITIESCOMMUNICATION_stormwater_control
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| Start Date: | 01/01/1900 |
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| End Date: | 07/01/2020 |
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This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
| Agency Name | Award Title | Award Number |
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| National Science Foundation | InTERFEWS | 1828902 |
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Comments
Robert Clayton 1 year, 7 months ago
Thank you for the report. While not required - it would be a courtesy to provide a credit for the source data for the municipalities whose work you are aggregating (like in the readme.txt in the zipped folder). There's a lot of painstaking work put in by a lot of people to collect and shepherd this data. Austin TX data can be credited as City of Austin Watershed Protection Department and be accessed here:
Replyhttps://data.austintexas.gov/browse?q=UTILITIESCOMMUNICATION_stormwater_control
Benjamin Choat 1 year, 7 months ago
Hello Robert, Thank you for bringing this to my attention! I and the other coauthors are incredibly thankful to all of those who put in the painstaking work collecting and organizing the data, on which we developed our analysis and modified datasets. We especially applaud those cities such as Austin that have gone the extra mile, creating openly available and well organized SCM databases!! Regarding SCM data management, such cities are blazing the trail that hopefully many other cities will follow.
ReplyI will work to update the ReadMe.txt as suggested, providing credit where credit is due, beginning with Austin.
-Ben
Robert Clayton 1 year, 7 months ago
Hey - thanks Benjamin!
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